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When the Toronto Blue Jays signed former Houston Astro George Springer as a free agent in 2021, it was a big moment for the club. It showed they were finally getting serious about winning.

It may have been less of one for Springer. He was leaving the best team in baseball to join one that perpetually failed to get over the hump.

Springer waited a few years. Then he pushed the Jays over it himself.

His seventh-inning three-run blast on Monday night fits somewhere between Jose Bautista’s bat-flip effort and Joe Carter’s 1993 game-ender in the taxonomy of greatest-ever Jays home runs.

He put it near to where Carter’s landed in the left-field bleachers, to the same sort of hysterical reaction. Springer will never pay for a drink in Toronto again.

That hit propelled his team to a

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