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Guest: Mike Wilner, baseball columnist & host of Deep Left Field baseball podcast
The Blue Jays are currently battling the Seattle Mariners in the American League Championship Series (or ALCS for short), the one that precedes the World Series. Getting this far in the season has Toronto whipped into a lather at the possibility that their team may be within grasp of the big prize. A prize that likely feels a little further away after last night's game: the Jays lost, for the second time in this particular series, which is a best of seven.
Ten years ago, the Jays were also two games down in a playoff series against the Texas Rangers, beat on their home turf both times. But they crawled back to win that series with the Jose Bautista bat flip as the pinnacle of that triumphant return.
Today marks the 10 year anniversary of that bat flip and Mike Wilner, baseball columnist at the Star and host the Star's Deep Left Field baseball podcast, talks about the oral history both of that moment and one the Blue Jays currently find themselves in.
Plus: Wilner tells you all you need to know about how to predict who's gonna win when it comes to baseball
Bonus: Check out this video we made to commemorate the moment, Two Bat Flips, 10 Years Apart
Produced by Julia De Laurentiis Johnston & Sean Pattendon
Sources: MLB
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Guest: Mike Wilner, baseball columnist & host of Deep Left Field baseball podcast
The Blue Jays are currently battling the Seattle Mariners in the American League Championship Series (or ALCS for short), the one that precedes the World Series. Getting this far in the season has Toronto whipped into a lather at the possibility that their team may be within grasp of the big prize. A prize that likely feels a little further away after last night's game: the Jays lost, for the second time in this particular series, which is a best of seven.
Ten years ago, the Jays were also two games down in a playoff series against the Texas Rangers, beat on their home turf both times. But they crawled back to win that series with the Jose Bautista bat flip as the pinnacle of that triumphant return.
Today marks the 10 year anniversary of that bat flip and Mike Wilner, baseball columnist at the Star and host the Star's Deep Left Field baseball podcast, talks about the oral history both of that moment and one the Blue Jays currently find themselves in.
Plus: Wilner tells you all you need to know about how to predict who's gonna win when it comes to baseball
Bonus: Check out this video we made to commemorate the moment, Two Bat Flips, 10 Years Apart
Produced by Julia De Laurentiis Johnston & Sean Pattendon
Sources: MLB

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