When George Springer launched an Eduard Bazardo sinker into the Rogers Centre stands for a three-run homer in Game 7 against the Seattle Mariners Monday night, he launched the Toronto Blue Jays into their first World Series since 1993 in the most fitting way possible.
The ALCS was, after all, a series of comebacks for Springer’s side — first, from a two-game deficit, before again bouncing back from the brink of elimination in Game 6 to force a seventh and deciding matchup; the stage was set for one final comeback that came courtesy of Springer’s dinger in the bottom of the seventh, the most dramatic of them all.
What comes next is a World Series 32 years in the making for the Blue Jays, and the tall task of taking down the defending champs as the star-studded Los Angeles Dodgers come to

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