Daulton Varsho's World Series home run for Blue Jays has the craziest link to a Phillies catcher from 1993 originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. Baseball is just so darn cool.

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Such is the partially ad hoc nature of this Blue Jays playoff run, as they won the American League East three weeks after Bichette suffered a sprained left knee ligament, then won seven of 11 postseason games to advance to their first World Series since 1993.

Varsho, meanwhile, has only hit 10 home runs off lefties in his career – six of them coming on the first pitch. The Gold Glove centre fielder also hit a big home run off a left-hander in the final week of the Blue Jays' season, busting the offence out of a slump with a grand slam off Red Sox lefty Justin Wilson.

His father, Baseball Hall of Famer Vladimir Guerrero Sr., was the 2004 AL MVP and a nine-time Major League All-Star who played 16 years in MLB with the Montreal Expos (1996-2003), Anaheim/Los Angeles Angels (2004-2009), Texas Rangers (2010) and the Baltimore Orioles (2011).

The Toronto Blue Jays have fought their way into their first World Series since 1993. Their opponents, the Los Angeles Dodgers, are the reigning world champions

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