TORONTO — Chris Bassitt’s hair, his face and his ALCS champions t-shirt were all saturated with beer when Louis Varland gleefully added to it, pouring another full can on his teammate’s head as they stood just below a disco ball that hung from the ceiling outside the Toronto Blue Jays clubhouse.

Bassitt was blinking through the liquid as it trickled down his face, standing in his socked feet as music blasted while he and the rest of the Toronto Blue Jays celebrated their biggest win in more than three decades, and while the veteran pitcher reflected on what he personally had done to help accomplish that feat.

“Yeah, I’m just happy I didn’t blow it,” Bassitt said, laughing. “I mean, they put a lot of damn pressure on me.”

As fellow starter Kevin Gausman pointed out, when Bassitt entered

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