{"id":486080,"date":"2025-10-08T22:51:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T02:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/toronto-eliminates-the-yankees-and-advances-to-the-american-league-championship-series\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T22:51:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T02:51:53","slug":"toronto-eliminates-the-yankees-and-advances-to-the-american-league-championship-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/toronto-eliminates-the-yankees-and-advances-to-the-american-league-championship-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto eliminates the Yankees and advances to the American League Championship Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<p><br><strong>NEW YORK. \u2014<\/strong> Spread the word: the <strong>Toronto Blue Jays<\/strong> are in the <strong>American League Championship Series (ALCS)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/tigres-explotan-con-tres-jonrones-y-fuerzan-un-decisivo-juego-5-ante-los-marineros\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tigers explode with three home runs and force a decisive game 5 against the Mariners<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nToronto secured its pass by defeating the <strong>New York Yankees<\/strong> on Wednesday by <strong>5-2<\/strong> at <strong>Yankee Stadium<\/strong>, winning the Divisional Series (ALDS) in four games. The Blue Jays finally took down a rival that for almost a decade was their \u201cbig brother\u201d in the <strong>American League East<\/strong>.\n\nThe <strong>ALCS Game 1<\/strong>, presented by <strong>loanDepot<\/strong>, will be played on <strong>Sunday<\/strong>, with a time to be confirmed, broadcast on <strong>FOX\/FS1<\/strong>.\n\n\u201cWhy not the Blue Jays? Why not this year?\u201d, was the feeling in the clubhouse after the victory. It&#8217;s the dream season of a team that no one expected to see go so far.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THE BLUE JAYS ARE THE FIRST TEAM TO PUNCH THEIR TICKET TO THE LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/osgnaA2uZR\">pic.twitter.com\/osgnaA2uZR<\/a><\/p>&mdash; FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLBONFOX\/status\/1976113678601830742?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 9, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nThe Yankees were eliminated, while the Blue Jays will return to Canada to rest and wait for the winner between the <strong>Detroit Tigers<\/strong> and the <strong>Seattle Mariners<\/strong>, who will define their series on Friday. This is Toronto&#8217;s <strong>first appearance in the Championship Series<\/strong> since the memorable campaigns of <strong>2015 and 2016<\/strong>, when a group full of talent and character thrilled the entire country.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But this 2025 team has conquered the nation in a different way: <strong>by surprise<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What a moment for Vladdy Jr. \ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hHZkyI0ocx\">pic.twitter.com\/hHZkyI0ocx<\/a><\/p>&mdash; FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLBONFOX\/status\/1976114774913187861?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 9, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nJust a year ago, Toronto won <strong>74 games<\/strong> and arrived at spring training promising &#8220;internal improvements,&#8221; an uninspired motto for a team with much to prove. Furthermore, uncertainty about the contract future of <strong>Vladimir Guerrero Jr.<\/strong> seemed to overshadow the entire picture. Projections placed them as an average team.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Look at them now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK. \u2014 Spread the word: the Toronto Blue Jays are in the American League Championship Series (ALCS). You may be interested in Tigers explode with three home runs and force a decisive game 5 against the Mariners Toronto secured its pass by defeating the New York Yankees on Wednesday by 5-2 at Yankee Stadium, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":486083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[35481],"tags":[611,40231,39774,13766,40853],"class_list":["post-486080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-thetruthnewspaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-22s0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Screenshot_20251008-224932_X.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yamell Rossi","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-7a176880-76f8-4b0c-9527-4e34feef45e4-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Screenshot_20251008-224932_X.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}