Every tight call in this series went against the Blue Jays, but they still pulled off the Series win. Looked like the fix was in against a Canadian Team winning the World Series, not to mention the disgrace of the Canadian Flag being flown upside down accidentally on purpose. An awesome effort from the Jays to overcome a plethora of horrible calls!
A match up between the two teams that were eliminated by the Twins last year. definitely an underrated world series. It was vastly overshadowed by 1991 and 1993 as those both ended more dramatically.
I was at Games 3, 4 & 5 here in Toronto, plus at SkyDome for game 6, this city went bonkers for this series. (We have the Leafs, can ya blame us? Lol) Loved watching Carter, Alomar, White, Olerud, Winfield, Borders & Maldonado all shine, but My favourite Blue Jay here in Toronto for years was Kelly Gruber. He played all the '92 season hurt, got dogged in the press, by the fans, & he came out playing harder in this series then at any other time during his time with the Blue Jays. Made that error yeah, but hit a clutch home run, his defense saved a few runs, he ran hard like the devil was chasing him, and YES, he got Sanders on the foot. He doesn't get any credit but he played as hard as anyone in this series. Also, did anyone else notice the umps seemed to miss or blow calls for both teams throughout this series? Glavine probably should've had had 20+ K's in his combined starts but the umpire seemed to forget what a consistent strike zone was. Same thing happened to Cone, Guzman & Smoltz. Overall, though, just an incredible series.
It was going according to plan for the Braves until Reardon grooved one for Ed Sprague, and it was too late by the time they recovered from that crushing defeat.
Toronto Blue Jays was the first non American team to win the world series that year. Toronto Blue Jays could've won three straight world series if it wasn't for the strike in 1994.
