"With one swing of the bat, the Toronto Blue Jays are heading to the World Series for the first time in 32 seasons. Here's a fun fact for you: per OptaSTATS, no team has more than one three-run, game-winning home run in the seventh inning or later in an elimination game. Well, that is, except for the Blue Jays. On Monday, George Springer hit a three-run bomb in the seventh inning, catapulting the Blue Jays to the World Series."
"Ten years before Springer hit the home run to put the Blue Jays in the World Series, there was the bat flip home run. The 2015 season was a special one, especially after the trade deadline. By the end of the season, the Jays finished second in the American League, earning home-field advantage in the ALDS against the Texas Rangers."
"The least notable of the four home runs came in 2016, as Edwin Encarnacíon hit a three-run blast in the 11th inning of the Wild Card game against the Baltimore Orioles. This isn't to say the home run wasn't massive, but it was the first round, so the stakes were low compared to the other two we'll look at."
George Springer hit a three-run home run in the seventh inning of an elimination game to send the Toronto Blue Jays to the World Series for the first time in 32 seasons. Per OptaSTATS, no team has more than one three-run, game-winning home run in the seventh inning or later of an elimination game, and the Blue Jays are the exception. The franchise has recorded four game-winning, three-run homers in elimination games, all hit in Toronto and each in a different postseason round: Joe Carter in the 1993 World Series, Edwin Encarnacíon in the 2016 Wild Card, José Bautista in the 2015 ALDS, and George Springer in the ALCS.
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