The Blue Jays are welcoming back two franchise icons and World Series heroes to help this weekend’s two World Series games inside Toronto’s Rogers Centre get off to a roaring start.

Former Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston will deliver the ceremonial first pitch for Game 1 vs. the Dodgers on Friday, and Joe Carter will deliver the ceremonial first pitch for Game 2 on Saturday.

Gaston and Carter were perhaps the two most important figures to the Blue Jays’ run to back-to-back championships in 1992 and ‘93. Gaston was the man calling the shots in the dugout for those World Series-winning squads. He managed 12 seasons in the big leagues, all with Toronto across two stints: 1989-97 and 2008-10. The Blue Jays won five division titles under his watch, including in both of those championship years.

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