The Toronto Blue Jays are in the World Series for the first time in more than 30 years. George Springer launched a powerful three-run home run in Game 7 of the ALCS, to ultimately defeat the Seattle Mariners.

Another Blue Jays hero from the past was watching that game. That is Joe Carter, who helped the Blue Jays win back-to-back World Series titles in 1992 and 1993. Carter jokingly said that Springer's home run nearly knocked him out .

“This is crazy, this is so crazy,” Carter told USA Today. “My heart was beating 10,000 beats a second, and I’m not even playing. It’s hard on a 65-year-old man.”

In 1993, Carter hit the home run that lifted Toronto to the championship, in Game 6 of the World Series. That would be the last time until this year that the Blue Jays would be in the Fall

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