“Touch ‘em all, Joe” finally knows how Blue Jays fans who watched his historic home run years ago felt. Article content

More than three decades after his 1993 blast off Philadelphia’s Mitch Williams became just the second World Series-winning walkoff homer, George Springer connected on a three-run seventh-inning home run to bring the Jays all the way back and in front of the Seattle Mariners. Article content Article content

It would stand as the winning hit as Toronto returned to the World Series.

Carter, watching the game at his home in Leawood, Kan., couldn’t believe what he was seeing, he told USA Today Sports .

“My heart was beating 10,000 beats a second and I’m not even playing. It’s hard on a 65-year-old man,” Carter told USA Today ’s long-time baseball columnist Bo

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