Toronto Maple Leafs Watching Blue Jays Playoff Run
- TORONTO - Morgan Rielly says conversations inside the Maple Leafs' locker room Tuesday morning were similar to the ones happening around kitchen tables and water coolers across Canada.
- Toronto's baseball team advanced to the World Series in dramatic fashion Monday night with a spine-tingling, hair-raising 4-3 victory in Game 7 over the seattle Mariners.
- And like many fans in the city and across the country, the Leafs were watching.
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Maple Leafs Discuss Blue Jays’ World Series Run and city Buzz
TORONTO – Morgan Rielly says conversations inside the Maple Leafs’ locker room Tuesday morning were similar to the ones happening around kitchen tables and water coolers across Canada.
Non-stop Blue Jays talk.
Toronto’s baseball team advanced to the World Series in dramatic fashion Monday night with a spine-tingling, hair-raising 4-3 victory in Game 7 over the seattle Mariners.
And like many fans in the city and across the country, the Leafs were watching.
“Pretty cool,” rielly said. “Amazing to see the support that they’re getting.”
Jays slugger George Springer – hobbled after getting struck in the knee by a pitch in Game 5 - smoked a three-run home run over the left-field fence in the bottom of the seventh inning to turn a two-run deficit into a one-run lead inside an incandescent Rogers Centre.
“I think I hit the ceiling,” said Leafs winger Max Domi,who tuned in from his couch.
Toronto trailed Seattle 2-0 in the American League Championship Series after losing the first two games at home. The jays then returned to their turf down 3-2 and then trailed Game 7 with eight outs to go before clinching the franchise’s first World Series trip since winning the second of back-to-back titles in 1993.
“The emotion of the game, just the team camaraderie,” Leafs head coach Craig Berube said of what he’s seen from afar. “They’re a very tight group. It’s very visible.”
Rielly said there are lessons to take from a collection of baseball players making memories just up the road from Scotiabank Arena.
“There’s a small part of you that’s envious of them, right?” he said.”You’re almost jealous at what they’re doing, just as they’re in Toronto and we watch it first-hand.You’re obviously happy for them.It’s a great moment for the city, but we want to be able to do that and have a run like that.
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