TORONTO — The baseball industry assembled north of the border for the first time since Joe Carter gave a generation of fans their signature moment and the Toronto Blue Jays showed themselves ready to once again be the sun at the centre of the World Series’ orbit.

They repositioned their roster to not only erode the many strengths of the mighty Los Angeles Dodgers but also to expose their weaknesses. They sent a 22-year-old in his first year of professional baseball to stare down their glitzy array of stars and he held his own without his best pitch to give his team a chance. They wore down a power-armed lefty who has long tormented them and then feasted on those who followed him in stunning and relentless fashion. And they did so much to slay the David-versus-Goliath narrative tiredly foi

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