43 h. ago Here's what Aaron Judge said about the Blue Jays and Toronto fans before ALDS

Don't expect the New York Yankees to be underestimating the Toronto Blue Jays ahead of their first-ever postseason meeting.Sure, the Blue Jays might've come into the year with muted expectations, while the Yankees were fresh off a World Series appearance.But 162 regular season games (and one Wild Card series for the Yankees) later, and it's New York who's heading into Toronto without home field advantage for the American League Division Series starting on Saturday.And the Yankees' biggest star, two-time AL MVP Aaron Judge, had kind things to say about the Blue Jays after his Yankees knocked off the Boston Red Sox in a winner-take-all Wild Card Game 3 on Thursday night."They're a complete team. They don't strike out a lot. So they're gonna put the ball in play. They're gonna force your hand on defence. We're looking forward to that. Toronto is going to be rocking. We love that," Judge said following the game, per Sportsnet's David...

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68 h. ago Toronto Blue Jays have a new playoff slogan and they're splashing it everywhere

The Toronto Blue Jays are off to the postseason, and they've cooked up a new rallying cry for the fanbase.It's been an improbable season for the Blue Jays, who have surprised at every turn to win the AL East division title. Toronto manager John Schneider put it perfectly when he said that the Jays did it their way in a speech after clinching the division.After all that, you may think the Blue Jays are satisfied just to be in the ALDS, but that couldn't be further from the truth. Both the players and fans are hungry to make some noise in the postseason, and while an AL East title is nice, they aren't finished.The team's postseason slogan puts that desire at the forefront: Want It All.#WANTITALL #WANTITALL #WANTITALL #WANTITALL #WANTITALL #WANTITALL #WANTITALL #WANTITALL #WANTITALL #WANTITALL #WANTITALL #WANTITALL #WANTITALL #WANTITALL #WANTITALL #WANTITALL #WANTITALL #WANTITALL #WANTITALL #WANTITALL #WANTITALL #WANTITALL #WANTITALL #WANTITALL pic.twitter.com/YjxpO...

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3 d. ago Jose Bautista says loud Toronto Blue Jays crowds give team 'competitive advantage'

Few people know what it's like to play in front of a rowdy Toronto Blue Jays crowd better than Jose Bautista.The legendary Jays slugger joined First Up on TSN 1050 on Thursday to explain his thoughts on the typically raucous Toronto Blue Jays fanbase, and how that might factor into their playoff series getting underway this weekend."It's insane… just making the opposing players feel that animosity, right? It's going to be huge. It's going to be a great competitive advantage. And just everybody, not only in the stadium, but in the city and in the country, behind the players, you get a huge boost from it, because you feel that it's tangible, and it's a privilege for players to be in that position, and I think they know and realize that," Bautista told the hosts.Toronto will host Games 1 and 2 of the ALDS, waiting to find out the results of Thursday night's matchup between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees to see wh...

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4 d. ago Toronto Blue Jays ALDS tickets are selling at completely bonkers prices

The Toronto Blue Jays will play postseason baseball this weekend, and the cost to get into the Rogers Centre is hefty.There is no question that Toronto baseball fans are excited to watch the Blue Jays in the postseason. This is the first time since 2016 that the team will play in the ALDS, and expectations are sky-high after winning the AL East division for the first time since 2015.Add that hype to the Blue Jays' opponent being either one of the New York Yankees or Boston Red Sox, and suddenly, you have one of the hottest ticket events in the entire country.Toronto will host three ALDS games starting on Saturday, and the cost of tickets has exploded. As of Tuesday afternoon, the cheapest tickets available on Ticketmaster are $308 for 500-level seats in Game 1.TicketmasterThe most expensive tickets for Game 1 are going for upwards of $3,000 for seats in the Ticketmaster Lounge at Rogers Centre. This is also the cheapest of the three ALDS games being played in Toronto.F...

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9 d. ago Here are the teams the Toronto Blue Jays are most likely to face in postseason

The Toronto Blue Jays will be back in the playoffs thanks to an unexpected and surprisingly impressive 2025 season.The Blue Jays didn't have very high expectations entering 2025, but have been able to put together a very respectable 90-68 record through 158 games. They were able to punch their ticket to the playoffs this past weekend, and currently hold the top spot in the AL East Division.Unfortunately for the Blue Jays, they've hit a bit of a rut as of late. Prior to picking up a massive 6-1 win over the Boston Red Sox on Thursday night, they'd lost six of their last seven outings. That has paved the way for the New York Yankees to tie them record wise, though the Jays do still hold the tiebreaker thanks to winning the season series.Fangraphs is currently giving the Blue Jays a 60.7 per cent chance to clinch the AL East, meaning they would get a bye through the wild-card round and advance straight to the AL Division Series.AL East Division standings.What...

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9 d. ago Here's how much it costs to buy Toronto Blue Jays playoff tickets in 2025

Regardless of how the AL East Division race plays out, the Toronto Blue Jays will be playing playoff baseball this season.The Jays were able to officially punch their ticket to the postseason thanks to an 8-5 win over the Kansas City Royals on Sunday. Of course, at that point, they also seemed destined to take home the division title, but some rough play as of late has put that into question.The Blue Jays have now lost six of their last seven outings after dropping Wednesday's game to the Boston Red Sox by a 7-1 final. While they still hold the tiebreaker over the New York Yankees thanks to winning their season series 8-5, both teams now hold an identical 90-68 record with five games to go.Should the Jays wind up falling out of the top spot and finishing the season in a wild-card position, they would begin that best-of-three series on Tuesday, Sept. 30. Assuming the Jays can, at the very least, hold the top wild-card spot, all three games would be held at Rogers C...

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1 week ago Toronto Blue Jays fans ate over 30,000kg of $1 hot dogs this season

Toronto Blue Jays fans are gearing up for the postseason, and also probably resting their stomachs after a season of stuffing their faces with unholy quantities of cheap $1 hot dogs during Loonie Dogs Night promotions on Tuesday home games. The popular promotion managed to offload over 800,000 cheap "Loonie Dogs" on Rogers Centre crowds this season, and, with that Jays' AL East-leading squad selling out game after game this season, it should come as little surprise that fans shattered last season's record by almost 100,000 glizzies.The astounding 826,308 consumed by Rogers Centre crowds during Loonie Dogs promotions in 2025 eclipsed the 727,819 sold during the 2024 season.This impressive (if not somewhat concerning) record was cemented during the Jays' 4-1 loss to the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday evening, when fans scarfed down 92,896 hot dogs on the final Loonie Dogs Night promotion of the year – falling just short of the record established last month,...

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1 week ago Toronto Blue Jays playoff tickets going on sale and here's how to score them

The Toronto Blue Jays are back in the postseason.After missing the playoffs in 2024, the Blue Jays punched their ticket to the dance Sunday in Kansas City. They're the fifth team in Major League Baseball and the first in the American League to clinch a playoff berth this season.The Blue Jays announced Monday morning that playoff tickets will go on sale to the general public on Thursday, Sept. 25, at 10 a.m. EDT.Tickets sold are for the best-of-three American League Wild Card Series, beginning Sept. 30, and the best-of-five American League Divisional Series, which would start Oct. 4. Tickets for potential future rounds will be available at a later date.If the Blue Jays win their division, they would receive a bye to the ALDS, skipping the AL Wild Card Series entirely.Playoff home dates will be announced at a later date, and fans will be refunded for any games that don't get played.Fans who have full- or quarter-season tickets will be guaranteed playoff tickets....

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2 w. ago Sportsnet and Apple TV reach deal to simulcast Friday’s Jays

TORONTO — Baseball fans will now be able to watch the Toronto Blue Jays game on Friday night on the team’s regular broadcast home in Canada. Sportsnet, the club’s Canadian rights-holder, said Thursday it had struck a deal with Apple TV to simulcast the road game against the Kansas City Royals on Rogers airwaves. The […]

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3 w. ago Former Toronto Blue Jays player thinks team could have won it all in mid

Former Toronto Blue Jays infielder Lyle Overbay had some interesting things to say about his time with the team, and what could've been in some of their best seasons.Joining Sportsnet's Blake Murphy and Julia Kreuz on Wednesday's episode of Jays Talk+,  Overbay spoke about his highs and lows with the franchise across five seasons in the mid-2000s.Overbay had a batting average of .268 with 672 hits, 83 homers, 336 RBIs, and 337 runs scored in 723 games for the Blue Jays in his career, playing for the team from 2006 to 2010."I always know when there's a lot of Canadians in the stands because they're involved... You don't get that very often everywhere else." 🇨🇦Former #BlueJays infielder Lyle Overbay chats with @BlakeMurphyODC & @juliackreuz about Toronto's unique crowd atmosphere.#LightsUpLetsGo pic.twitter.com/wDBKErXD9P— Sportsnet 590 The FAN (@FAN590) September 10, 2025Though he spent 14 years in the majors for six teams, he play...

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3 w. ago Sportsnet’s Buck Martinez rips New York Yankees: ‘They’re not a good team’

'I don’t care what their record is. They have a lot of wild pitches, they make a lot of mistakes in the field, they don’t run the bases very well.'

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