TORONTO — Joe Carter tossed his ceremonial first pitch to Bo Bichette, stopped for a picture, and then walked toward the Toronto Blue Jays‘ dugout while waving his arms up and down to implore the Rogers Centre crowd to get loud.

Vladimir Guerrero Jr., of course, knows a thing or two about riling up them up and greeted Carter with the club’s home run jacket. As he slipped the garment on the broad shoulders of the Blue Jays’ legend, the decibel levels rose inside the stadium and an iconic moment in franchise history was born.

It was a convergence of the old and the new that carried the feeling of a beloved superhero making a cameo in a Marvel movie.

If you zoom out beyond the Blue Jays’ 5-1 loss on Saturday to the Los Angeles Dodgers that tied the World Series at one game apiece, it’s eas

See Full Page