If one image could capture the 2025 Toronto Blue Jays, it’s George Springer rounding third base, grinning and howling and full of hope.
Springer is the heartbeat of a team reborn. His stunning resurgence has launched the Blue Jays to the top of the American League East, ground they haven’t known in late July for nearly a decade. Springer looks so alive again. The Blue Jays look alive again.
In Wednesday night’s 8-4 win over the Yankees, the Blue Jays took the series and a four-game lead in the division their way. Even as New York played Yankee Ball, leaning on home runs for every run, Toronto proved that its brand of baseball can hold up in a heavyweight tilt. And Springer was right in the middle of it all, burning down that third-base line.
Springer’s signature moment opened the scoring for the Blue Jays when the 35-year-old was standing in one of his favorite spots: first base with Vladimir Guerrero Jr. at the dish. When Vladdy pulled in his hands to somehow yank an inside pitch down the left-field line, Springer’s eyes started to bulge out of his head. He was off.
By the time Springer had turned around second and locked eyes with third-base coach Carlos Febles, his helmet was already bowling across the infield and into foul territory like he was a race car that had just lost a tire at the turn. Springer gritted his teeth, dug his right foot into the bag and then yelled into the night air as he pumped his arms through the first few strides home. Springer poured his soul into this run, every ounce of it, and by the time he slid across home plate, he’d earned a moment to exhale and lay face-down in the dirt.
The George Springer Experience, a play in four acts: pic.twitter.com/MLvaTSKEPU
— Keegan Matheson (@KeeganMatheson) July 24, 2025
This is who the Blue Jays are and who the Blue Jays can be. The Yankees did everything big and loud — from Aaron Judge’s two-run homer to Aaron Boone’s ejection that had a runtime longer than a Marvel movie — but Toronto played airtight baseball while New York booted it around every chance it got. By the time Bo Bichette launched a two-run shot to pad the Blue Jays’ lead in the seventh, it felt like the sellout crowd at Rogers Centre was standing right on top of the Yankees. October has come early.
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