The team has played other open air playoff games though, dating to before the SkyDome’s June 1989 opening.

The 36th post-season Blue Jays game in Toronto was only the second played under an open roof at Rogers Centre.

And with good reason. Saturday’s American League Division Series opener between the Jays and New York Yankees was played under conditions more summer-like than usually seen in October. It was 26° Celsius when Kevin Gausman threw his first pitch to Trent Grisham, hotter than when Toronto hosted Baltimore for a night game on Oct. 4, 2016 and it was 17°C at first pitch. Article content Article content

That game, won memorably by the Jays on Edwin Encarnacion’s walkoff, was the other one that came with the roof open. Article content

Later that month the team played two ga

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