Toronto Blue Jays fever has swept across Canada — including here in the Okanagan — as the country’s only Major League Baseball team competes in the World Series for the first time in 32 years.

The Blue Jays captured back-to-back championships in 1992 and 1993 but haven’t returned to the World Series since.

Expectations for the 2025 season were modest following a disastrous 2024 campaign, when the Jays won just 74 of 162 games and finished last in the American League East. But, as often happens in sports, this underdog squad has defied all predictions — winning their division, knocking off their arch-rival New York Yankees in the opening playoff round, and then defeating the West Division champion Seattle Mariners in a thrilling seven-game series to punch their ticket to the World Series.

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