Overview
- The 4-3 Game 7 win sends Toronto to its first World Series since 1993 after George Springer’s three-run shot off Eduard Bazardo flipped a 3-1 deficit in the seventh.
- Vladimir Guerrero Jr. earned ALCS MVP honors after hitting .385 with three home runs, three doubles and seven RBIs in the series.
- Game 1 is Friday, Oct. 24 at 8 p.m. ET at Rogers Centre, where the Blue Jays hold home-field advantage after a better regular-season record.
- Los Angeles swept the NLCS over Milwaukee and will have a fully rested rotation of Blake Snell, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tyler Glasnow and Shohei Ohtani.
- Seattle’s defeat extends the Mariners’ run as the only major U.S. pro franchise to have never reached a championship round since their 1977 inception, per Opta.