Maybe Josh Naylor pictured that second rising up.
The Mississauga, Ont., native blasted a seventh-inning dwelling run at Rogers Centre to provide his Seattle Mariners a 9-3 lead over the Toronto Blue Jays in Recreation 2 of the ALCS on Monday.
In doing so, he turned the primary Canadian-born participant to ever homer towards the Blue Jays within the post-season.
He additionally turned the primary visiting Canadian to launch a dinger towards the hometown workforce. Naylor, 28, joins Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Russell Martin and Michael Saunders as Canadian-born gamers to hit playoff dwelling runs of their dwelling nation.
And whereas the Canadian crowd wasn’t precisely thrilled to witness historical past, Naylor’s household — seated behind the Mariners’ dugout — certain appeared to get pleasure from it.
