TORONTO – Touch ‘em all, George, you’ll never hit a bigger home run in your life.

The Toronto Blue Jays are heading to their first World Series since 1993, powered by George Springer’s go-ahead, three-run homer in Monday’s 4-3 victory over the Seattle Mariners in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series.

Springer leapt in the air and raised both fists as he skipped around the bases, having crushed Eduard Bazardo’s seventh-inning sinker into the left-field seats, a blast that set off a frenzied party that shook Rogers Centre to its core before spilling into the city streets.

Bazardo was relieving Bryan Woo, who permitted a walk, hit and sacrifice bunt to begin the frame.

Celebrating the biggest win in franchise history since Joe Carter’s walk-off home run in ’93, the Blue Jays

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