Blue Jays guarantee more World Series baseball in Toronto with Game 4 win, and fans are ecstatic
CBC
They're back in the series and soon to be back at home — Blue Jays fans are buzzing after Toronto defeated Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 4 of the World Series Tuesday.
For the second day in a row, more than 27,000 fans filled Rogers Centre to take in the game on the video scoreboard. This time, the watch party was half as long and twice as sweet, as fans cheered the Jays to a 6-2 win that ended well before midnight.
Sam Hatch-Restrepo said the highlight was Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s go-ahead home run off Ohtani, which caused the Rogers Centre crowd to erupt.
“Like, you can’t ever get enough of that guy hitting dingers,” he said. “Tonight was fantastic. Such a good crowd. It felt like the game was actually going on [in person]. The fans here in Toronto are just incredible.”
And they’ll now get at least one more chance to cheer on the Blue Jays in the flesh. Tuesday’s win evens the series at two games apiece, guaranteeing a Game 6 in Toronto.
“I’m feeling like it’s ours,” Hatch-Restrepo said. “Doesn’t matter if it’s in six or if it’s in seven, the Jays are getting it done. It’s happening here at home.”
Coming off the heels of an 18-inning loss that ended just before 3 a.m. ET on the same day Game 4 would be played, Jays fans, like the team itself, showed no signs of fatigue.
Deborah Rule was back at Rogers Centre for the second straight night, after spending more than six hours in the seats for the heartbreaking Game 3 loss.
She said the Game 4 win has energized her for a third straight night under the dome — and she plans to bring the sparkly Jays jacket she bought for the World Series as a good luck charm.
“I’m here tomorrow, and I’m not taking it off,” she said.
Plenty of Blue Jays gear was also on display in Los Angeles for the game Tuesday. Chris Simpson, who now lives in Arizona but grew up in Markham, said he was “a touch” nervous to wear his jersey in hostile territory, but wound up in a section with a handful of other Toronto fans.
“It was nice to see the Canadian contingent come out and support the boys,” he said.
While Simpson said he was “so pumped” to see the Jays win a World Series game in person, his five-year-old daughter said her favourite part of the game was “getting kettle corn.”
Another Ontario transplant, Paul Mercer, who wore his Toronto swag along with his daughter (despite his wife’s Dodgers cap), said he would celebrate the win by breaking out the only Jays paraphernalia he’d brought to L.A. when he moved.
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