2 w. ago SIMMONS: Were Blue Jays robbed? ‘The ball wasn’t lodged in the fence. I saw it.’

Even now, when he takes batting practice in the cage across the hall from the Blue Jays clubhouse, Davis Schneider closes his eyes and pretends it’s the bottom of the ninth, seventh game of the World Series, two outs and he’s the batter. He closes his eyes, the same way he did when he was […]

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2 w. ago SIMMONS: A Blue Jays World Series win will stay with you forever

We all know where we were, or who we were watching with, live or on television — home, stadium, bar or viewing party.

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2 w. ago SIMMONS: The World Series is coming back to Toronto. Might as well win the damn thing!

They are a team you just can’t help but fall in love with for all they do, for all they can do, for everyone who does it.

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2 w. ago SIMMONS: Game 3 was a World Series celebration and a devastating defeat for Blue Jays

The Jays finished a lot of the night without Springer, Bichette, Barger or Kirk, four of their five best hitters

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3 w. ago SIMMONS: Are the Blue Jays mad going with Mad Max Scherzer for Game 3?

This is where hope and guessing, guile and trust come in for the Toronto Blue Jays. Smack in the middle of the World Series. Trusting Max Scherzer to start Game 3 at Dodger Stadium. Believing it’s the right thing to do. Believing he’s the right guy to start Monday night and to start again in […]

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3 w. ago SIMMONS: Now what for World Series after Blue Jays and Dodgers each win one their way?

Now it’s one victory, a best of five, really, now. Winner and style take all.

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3 w. ago SIMMONS: Hello America, hello Los Angeles, meet the Blue Jays. They’re good

It wasn't just Game 1 of the World Series. It was a slaughter. The Blue Jays pounded the heavily favoured Los Angeles Dodgers with an opening game stomping.

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3 w. ago SIMMONS: How Vladimir Guerrero Jr. became face of the Blue Jays and a baseball superstar

The story and more on the scout who discovered Vladdy, who is now a VP with the Los Angeles Dodgers, of all teams.

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3 w. ago SIMMONS: George Springer was Mr. Clutch as Blue Jays head to World Series

George Springer wrapped his arms around the chest of Vladimir Guerrero Jr., squeezed hard, lifted him off the ground and wouldn’t let go. Seemingly forever. Or, forever in our minds and hearts. Guerrero, with tears in his bright red eyes, had his arms wrapped around Springer as the Rogers Centre roared Monday night — and […]

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4 w. ago SIMMONS: The game 7 backyard dream comes to life for Blue Jays

The only Blue Jays Game 7 before this one: Forty years ago.

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last month SIMMONS: John Schneider makes the wrong call and now Jays on the verge of elimination

Every once in a while, for reasons normally unexplained, a Major League manager loses his mind. The way John Schneider lost his on Friday night. Schneider made one of the giant bonehead decisions of his managerial career, going to the wrong relief pitcher at the wrong time, in the bottom of the eighth inning with […]

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