It was only fitting that José Bautista was in the house on Monday night when George Springer hit the game-winning home run that sent the Blue Jays to their first World Series in 32 years.

“Now I know how all the fans felt (when I hit mine),” Bautista said in a conversation for Wednesday’s episode of “Deep Left Field,” the Star’s baseball podcast . “I was going bananas up there in the suite.”

The parallels are astounding. Baseball

A controversial call, furious fans and The Bat Flip: An oral history of the game that turned Jose Bautista into a Blue Jays icon

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October playoff baseball. A winner-take-all game at the Rogers Centre with the city and country wrapped up in Jays fever like it hadn’t in been for years.

The bottom of the seventh inning of a game in which t

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