BRONX, NY — For a Toronto Blue Jays team that has not seen past the Wild Card Series since 2016 and the inexperience that comes with it, this American League Divisional Series stage is not messing with them one bit.
Despite being the American League's No. 1 overall seed, the consensus was that they would be handled easily by the New York Yankees in the best-of-five ALDS. Not only has Toronto proved those sentiments incorrect, but they crushed the Yankees by a combined score of 23-8 over the first two games of the series.
What has been the secret for an unproven Blue Jays team against the mystique of the defending American League champions?
"I feel like we have a bunch of young dudes at heart," outfielder Davis Schneider said. "We have a lot of old heads. Even George [Springer], he's 36