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Blue Jays, heroic George Springer seize their ALCS Game 7 moment, get chance at World Series

The Toronto Blue Jays needed a hero. Scratch that. It'd have to be a superhero.

George Springer answered the call.

The Blue Jays trailed almost the entire night to the Seattle Mariners in Game 7 of the ALCS.

But with two runners on and a two-run deficit in the bottom of the seventh, Springer dug in.

Springer is one of the best playoff hitters of all time. He entered the night with 22 career postseason home runs.

He ended it with 23.

This one was a no-doubter. Springer clobbered the baseball deep to left-center at Rogers Centre, well beyond the fence, a go-ahead home run in the biggest game the Blue Jays have played in a long time.

Toronto hadn't been to the World

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