2015: The Rise Of The Blue Jays

2015: The Rise Of The Blue Jays

It’s a Saturday afternoon in late October, 1993 World Series, You’re at SkyDome watching Toronto Blue Jays Vs Philadelphia Phillies, it's Game 6, Blue Jays are ahead by 3-2 in the Serie and are 1 game away from becoming World Series Championships for the second time in a row.

The game start and the Jays go ahead in the first inning. Paul Molitor score a triple, Roberto Alomar score another run and in the fifth inning, Molitor score again with a solo home run. The Blue Jays are ahead in the fifth at 5-1,everything is looking good for the Toronto Team.

It's the seventh inning, one of the turning points of the game. Things start to to look not so good for Toronto. After a three-run home run and two singles, the Phillies are 6-5 ahead. What was looking like an easy game to the championship become the game that could separate the Jays from their second championship.

The game reach the ninth inning, the last chance in the game for the Blue Jays to get the crown.

Jays attack with two men in base, Joe Carter at the bat, 2 balls, and 2 strikes. The pitcher throw the ball, Carter hit it. , and it’s a home run! A three-run home run, the Blue Jays win the World Series in the last play by 8-6. The World Series champions is defined by an amazing play at the end of the game.

After winning two championships in a row, everyone might have thought that the Toronto Blue Jays would become one of the strongest teams in the MLB, but that was not to be the case. In fact, instead of going up, the team fell in the rankings.

The team fail in the try to get another championship. In 21 years the Blue Jays had played 3,336 games, winning 1,634 but losing 1,699 and 0 Postseason played

The new season is about to start and one of the stars of the team is leaving. Melky cabrera rejected an extension of his contract. The team cover Milky lost with the arriving of many players like Marco  Estrada, Josh Donaldson between others.

The season began, The Jays star against the New York Yankees. A good challenge for start the season. After 3 matches, Toronto win the series 2-1, a pretty good begining of season for the team against one of most importance teams in the league.

After 18 games, the team looks decent, 9 winnings and 9 losses but then everything will back to “normal”. The team starts with a negative record(23-30), in 35 games the team won 14 games and lost 21.

Tuesday, June 2, 2015. The Blue Jays against Washington Nationals. Nationals with a record of 29 winnings and 23 losses and top of the National League East Division, on the other way, the Jays have 23 winnings and 30 losses and bottom of the American League East Division. Toronto win the game by 7-3. This game is the climax in the season, will mark the develop in the performance of the team. After that game the team sums 10 victories in a row getting a record of 34-30 and leaving the bottom to the 3rd place of the Division.

The season continues, after a 100 games Toronto get a record of 50-51 gettin down from 3rd to 4th place. There's when the Jays get another great streak winning 15 of the next 16 games getting a record of 64-52 and positioning in the 1st place of the AL East Division.

The Blue Jays will end the regular season with a record of 93 winnings and 63 losses, as a 1st place of the AL East Division and the ticket to the Postseason after 21 years

21 years later, The Blue Jays are finally qualify into the Postseason and now the team has a new target, become World Series Champions. Before they have overcome The Texas Rangers.

After losing the first two games of the series by 5-3, 6-4, The Blue Jays get off what seems to be tough. Toronto won the next 2 games with a score of 5-1, 8-4 forcing a deciding and final 5th game which will be winning by the Jays 6-3 with an extraordinary three home run by Jose Bautista and a five out save by Roberto Osuna becoming the second-youngest pitcher in MLB history to record a postseason save by sealing the 6–3 victory.

Blue Jays win the AL Divisional Series 3-2 and now they have to beat Kansas City Royals to be in another World Series Final.

Kansas will beat Toronto in the first game by a 5-0, Royals will retake the series by another winning by 6-3. At the game 3th, Jays got a win(8-11) but they will be beaten over again in game 4th by a hefty score of 14-2. Toronto refuse to lost the serie and get 7-1 win in game 5th. The serie reaches the 6th game, Blue Jays down in the series 3-2, Toronto with the duty of win to tie the serie.

The game starts, 1st inning and Ben Zobrist hit a solo home run.A controversial play comes in the 2nd Inning, Mike Moustakas hit solo home run but is helped by a fan, the ball wasn't going out of the field. The empire reviewed the play but he gave the run to Kansas City. Toronto down 2-0. 4 inning, José Bautista hit a solo home run 2-1 Jays down. 7 inning, Royals at the bat, Sanchez hit the ball and Moustakas run from 3rd to home, another run for Kansas, score 3-1.

It's the 8th inning, Blue Jays down by 2 points. Jays attacking, man in 1st base, Bautista hit the ball and gets and 2 run home run and the Blue Jays tie the game!

Bottom of the 8th, Jays defending. Roberto Osuna shoot the ball and Eric Hosmer hit it, Lorenzo Cain run from the 1st base to home, Kansas score again, 4-3.

9 and last inning. Blue Jays attacking 1 point down and looking for the exploit. Pompey hit the ball and goes to 1st base. Is turn of Kevin Pillar at the bat, Kansas pitcher throw the ball, is a strike but Pompey stole base, he runs from 1st to 2nd base. The pitcher throw again but it's a ball, Pompey runs and stole another base, now from 2ns to 3rd base. Pillar walks to 1st base before 4 balls.

The score is 4-3. The Jays with 2 mans in base, now is the turn of Dioner Navarro at the bat, after 4 throws Navarro is out but Pillar runs and stoles 2nd base. Is turn of Ben Revere at the bat but he was out too. Is time for Josh Donaldson, it's the decisive play, 2 mans on base, 2 outs, it's all or nothing for Toronto. Davies throws the ball, Donaldson hits it, Moustakas catch the ball and throwing to 1st base, Pompey trying to get from 3rd to home but it's late, the ball gets in 1st before Donaldson, 3rd out. Game over, it's all for Blue Jays, Kansas City Champions of the American League.

Blue Jays may not won the American League title and they didn't play World Series either, but what they did was turn on whole Toronto getting back to a Postseason game after 21 years. Canadians and Non-Canadians, fans or not real fans of baseball, almost everyone in Toronto was really into the team. Toronto streets were crowded of people with Jays t-shirts, caps, sweaters, hats and anything that is wearable. What's next for the Toronto Blue Jays? We can not say how is the next season is going to be, but after such a really good performance in the last season, the fans are expecting an ambitious team looking for another great season. Now the challenge for the Jays is stay as a strong team and don't disappoint their fans as they did for 21 years.