Toronto Blue Jays

Toronto Blue Jays second baseman Devon Travis left Friday's ALCS matchup with the Cleveland Indians in the fifth inning with a knee injury. He will undergo an MRI after feeling a sharp pain, per Ben Nicholson-Smith of Sportsnet.

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Baseball's two hottest teams will clash in the American League Championship Series when the Toronto Blue Jays and Cleveland Indians play at Progressive Field on Friday.

Each team swept its respective division series.

The upcoming ALCS can be compared to a great boxing card. In boxing, contrasting styles between fighters make a great fight.

Canadians dig the long ball.

If that wasn't true before the Toronto Blue Jays completed a sweep of the Texas Rangers Sunday night with a 7-6 extra-inning win, it's certainly true now.

Toronto got a pair of home runs Sunday off the bats of first baseman Edwin Encarnacion and catcher Russell Martin. In all, seven Jays hitters have combined for nine home runs in the team's four postseason games.

From the way it was being billed, the American League Division Series showdown between the Toronto Blue Jays and Texas Rangers sounded less like a baseball affair and more like a prizefight.

If that's how it is, I'm compelled to say the Blue Jays have scored a first-round knockdown.

Fact: Edwin Encarnacion hit a three-run walk-off home run in the Toronto Blue Jays' 5-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday night. He became the first player since the New York Yankees' Aaron Boone (2003 ALCS Game 7 vs.

This season, the Toronto Blue Jays and Baltimore Orioles couldn't have played each other closer.

In 19 games, Toronto won 10 and Baltimore nine.

Each team protected its home-field advantage. The Orioles went 5-4 at Camden Yards, while the Blue Jays were 6-4 at Rogers Centre. MLB couldn't have hand-picked two better teams to pit against one another in the American League Wild Card Game.

The Toronto Blue Jays went 21 consecutive years without making the playoffs after winning the 1993 World Series. On Sunday, they clinched their second straight postseason spot.

The Detroit Tigers lost to the Atlanta Braves, 1-0, which locked up Toronto's wild-card berth.

The team's Twitter account celebrated the news:

Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Joaquin Benoit suffered a leg injury attempting to join a bench-clearing brawl in Monday's game against the New York Yankees.

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It was easy to like the Toronto Blue Jays last September. They made the deals of the summer. For the final two months of the regular season, all they did was win.

They had David Price, they had a lineup that didn’t stop, they had a boost from Marcus Stroman’s return and they had whatever momentum you get from going 21-6 in August and 18-9 in September.

Toronto Blue Jays designated hitter Edwin Encarnacion hit his 40th home run of the season in Friday's 5-0 win over the Los Angeles Angels, joining Carlos Delgado and outfielder Jose Bautista as the only players in franchise history to record multiple 40-homer seasons in a Toronto uniform, per Sportsnet Stats.