TORONTO — One year ago, John Schneider spent Halloween night in a lawn chair, sipping a beer in a neighbor’s driveway and watching the kids trick-or-treat. Not a big Halloween guy.
“I think it’s a made-up holiday, anyway.”
This year, the Toronto Blue Jays manager will vie for something much more real: His franchise’s first World Series championship since 1993.
Yep, life has changed an awful lot for the Blue Jays in a year and, after nine innings (or more) of World Series Game 6, they may be forever altered. Standing in their way: The defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers and ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who has pitched consecutive complete games, including a Game 2 conquest of Blue Jays ace Kevin Gausman.
They’ll run that matchup back at Rogers Centre, where outside, hundreds of Toronto police are “fully mobilized” for what should be an uproarious celebration.
