Roberto Alomar

2022 - 8 - 27

SIMMONS SUNDAY: You can ban Roberto Alomar from baseball ... (Toronto Sun)

You can remove his name from the Wall of Excellence. You can ban him from baseball. You can prevent him from attending a celebration of his greatest team.

It should make the final month of the season more fascinating than usual. The question — and maybe it’s more important now than ever — who gets home-field advantage? Head-to-head, those games could and should decide where the Jays finish in the playoff race. They go from moribund Angels to the rather dreadful Chicago Cubs and then the last-place Pittsburgh Pirates before the challenge of September gets intriguing. There is no Canadian equivalent of the other likely starters in the World Cup. The Jays bullpen in the 1992 Series pitched 18.1 innings against Atlanta and gave up one earned run. Guzman won Game 4, putting the Jays up 3-1.Cone started Game 6, which was won by the Jays in extra innings on a Winfield hit. Had Toronto gone down 2-0, there would have been little chance of the Jays coming back to win the Series. Gillick traded for Joe Carter and Robbie Alomar in 1991. There seems to be concern about that at a time when there is little concern that Vladimir Guerrero’s average is down 28 points from a year ago, down 49 points in onbase percentage and down 100 points in slugging … And that can never be forgotten by those who saw it and lived through that championship magic. And if there is no 1992 World Series title, then you pretty much imagine there would not have been a 1993 championship team either.

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