TORONTO — Shortly after George Springer sent a line drive to center field to cash the only run the Toronto Blue Jays scored in Game 6 of the World Series, the DH returned to the dugout and put his arms in the air so a black band could be wrapped around his torso.

Three games earlier, the 36-year-old Springer had taken a hard swing and immediately grabbed his right side, then walked straight to the dugout in obvious pain, never to return. After missing Games 4 and 5, Springer was reinserted atop the lineup on Friday.

As the Blue Jays suffered a 3-1 loss to the L.A. Dodgers that means this World Series is going to a deciding seventh game back at the Rogers Centre on Saturday (8 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. PT on Sportsnet and Sportsnet+), it was the lead-off hitter playing through obvious pain who prov

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