“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops. Today, November 2, a Sunday of rain and broken branches and leaf-clogged drains and slick streets, it stopped, and summer was gone.”
- A. Bartlett Giamatti (with a small change from October to November)
The Dodgers swept the NLCS, the Blue Jays won in 7 🤝
This will be the fifth World Series matchup where one team swept the LCS and the other went the distance.
The team that won in 7 went on to win the World Series in each previous instance 👀
At Rogers Centre, the @BlueJays have hit a game-winning 3+ run HR in the 7th or later to eliminate an opponent in all 4 rounds:
1993 WS: Carter
2015 ALDS: Bautista
2016 ALWC: Encarnación
2025 ALCS: Springer
No other team has more than 1 such HR at home in their entire history.