Tag Archives: toronto blue jays
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This Day In Sports History (May 15th) — Cito Gaston
It was on this day in 1989 that Cito Gaston was named the manager of the Toronto Blue Jays. It was his first managerial job in the Majors and three years later he would go on to lead the club to their first ever World Series title. Gaston joined the Jays in 1982 as a [...]
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Blue Jays Pitcher J.A. Happ Stretchered Off After Being Hit in the Head by a Line Drive (Video)
Most observers would tell you that the Toronto Blue Jays need a good slap on the side of the head to wake them up after a putrid start to a season in which they were supposed to be a shoe-in for the playoffs. That, however, is just a metaphor. What happened to starting pitcher J.A. [...]
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Edwin Encarnacion Became Just the 14th Player to Hit a Home Run into the Upper Deck at the Rogers Centre in Toronto (Video)
The Rogers Centre in Toronto is one of the last stadiums of its kind: a colossus multipurpose venue with perfect symmetry and an upper deck that’s about five stories high. They used to have joints like this in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Pittsburgh, among others, but now the Rogers Centre (née SkyDome) is the [...]
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Wasted Jays Fan Barfs All Over Seats, Makes Mom Proud (Video)
The Toronto Blue Jays had very strong attendance numbers for their first homestand of the 2013 MLB season. You see, they usually get a packed house on Opening Day, but then see the crowds shrink dramatically for games two and three of the season. However, with so much hype surrounding the team this year, the [...]
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Two Separate Streakers Tried to Liven Up a Blowout at the Jays-Red Sox Game in Toronto Yesterday (Videos)
Canadians baseball fans are a resourceful bunch. When faced with a boring baseball game, they don’t just sit there, bored out of their minds. They find other ways to entertain themselves. Yesterday’s Blue Jays-Red Sox game is proof of that. The Sox went up 5-0 before they even recorded an out in the first inning, [...]
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Drunk Girl Fights Old Man at Blue Jays Game and Nearly Has a Wardrobe Malfunction (Video)
Remember the good old days when you could get in a pointless drunken fight at a sporting event without your boss or your mom ever finding out? Well, thanks to smartphones, the YouTubes, and (ahem) sports blogs, those days are long gone. Now, we don’t just have footage of every fan fight that ever happens, [...]
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Crazy Blue Jays Fan Throws Bat Into Cleveland Indians Dugout (Video)
I knew Blue Jays fans were jacked up about the start of a very promising baseball season, but I had no idea they were this intense. At last night’s home opener in Toronto, the Blue Jays hosted the Cleveland Indians. In just the top of the first inning, the Tribe’s number three hitter, second baseman [...]
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Jays Fan Makes a Terrible Attempt at a Foul Ball (Video)
Major League Baseball players go through six long weeks of spring training, and they still show up on opening day a little rusty, booting grounders and misreading fly balls. The fans? They don’t get spring training. Well, actually, I guess they do if they take a vacation to Florida or Arizona and take in a [...]
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A Couple of Blue Jays Fans Got a Little Too Handsy at the Home Opener (Video)
The Toronto Blue Jays created a lot of hype when they made that megatrade with Miami back in November that shipped the majority of the Marlins’ talent north of the border. In a single move, a team that already had a decent foundation of talent became what some were calling the World Series favorites. Then [...]
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This Day In Sports History (December 13th) – Roger Clemens
It was on this day in 1996 that free agent starting pitcher Roger Clemens signed with the Toronto Blue Jays. Clemens signed a four-year, $40 million deal to be the ace of the Blue Jays pitching staff. Although he signed a four-year contract, Clemens lasted only two seasons in Toronto before being traded to the [...]
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15 Best Players Ever Dumped by the Marlins
On Tuesday, the Miami Marlins franchise sunk to a new all-time low when they traded every single player earning any kind of money to the Toronto Blue Jays for a handful of prospects, a homophobic defensive wizard, and…um…well, that’s it. Of course, fans of the Marlins had grown used to the team’s so-called “fire-sales,” and [...]
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This Day In Sports History (October 24th) — Toronto Blue Jays
It was on this day in 1992 that the Toronto Blue Jays won their first World Series championship. It marked the first time in MLB history that the World Series trophy was won by a team outside the U.S.A. The Jays finished their 16th season going 96-66 during the regular season. That was good enough [...]
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This Day In Sports History (October 23rd) — Joe Carter And The Blue Jays
It was on this day in 1993 that the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Philadelphia Phillies by a score of 8-6 in Game 6 of the World Series. With the win, the Blue Jays clinched their second of back-to-back World Series titles. The 1993 World Series will forever be remembered for how it ended, as [...]
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This Day In Sports History (September 14th) – Toronto Blue Jays
It was on this day in 1987 that the Toronto Blue Jays hit a Major League record 10 home runs in a single game. The Jays beat the Baltimore Orioles 18-3 in a game played at Toronto’s Exhibition Stadium. Catcher Ernie Whitt would lead the charge with three home runs, while both George [...]
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Stat Line Of The Night — 8/29/12 — Yunel Escobar
The Toronto Blue Jays have been hit hard with injuries this season, and it has shown, as they were once contending for an AL Wild Card spot, but have since fallen to 13 games below .500 without the likes of Jose Bautista and Brett Lawrie in the lineup. It has been hard for the team to [...]
