Jays clinch wild-card spot on day off, will celebrate Friday
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TORONTO (AP) — The Toronto Blue Jays punched their postseason ticket without taking the field, so the celebration will wait until Friday night.
TORONTO (AP) — The Toronto Blue Jays punched their postseason ticket without taking the field, so the celebration will wait until Friday night.
The Blue Jays locked up an AL wild-card spot a night earlier when Baltimore lost 5-3 at Boston.
“It was easy,” interim manager John Schneider joked Friday before Toronto hosted Boston. “It was a little weird. You become a Boston Red Sox fan for about three hours and then you turn it off. Definitely different, but no matter how you do it, doing it is the most important part.”
Schneider said the Blue Jays plan to celebrate in the clubhouse together following the game against the Red Sox.
“We expect more, but we definitely need to enjoy this,” Blue Jays shortstop Bo Bichette said.
Schneider started out watching Thursday’s Orioles game on TV but, getting antsy in the late innings, decided to step out for a walk. That’s what he was doing when his wife and two sons called from the family home in Florida, with wife Jess providing play-by-play of the final outs over FaceTime.
“She was pretty much spot on,” Schneider said. “She even knew that Cedric Mullins had a hit through the shift.”
Outfielder George Springer spent most of Thursday afternoon playing with his young son, but tuned in to watch the end of the Orioles game.
