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EExtra-Wild win sends Jays to ALDS in Texas
- Updated: October 5, 2016
TORONTO — The Blue Jays are going back to the American League Division Series. Edwin Encarnacion made sure of that.
Encarnacion hit a three-run homer in the bottom of the 11th inning to send Toronto to a 5-2 victory over the Orioles. In a battle of AL East rivals, between two teams that have been evenly matched all season and finished with identical 89-73 regular-season records, it was the Blue Jays who survived, and their reward is a matchup vs. the AL West champion Texas Rangers.
Encarnacion stepped to the plate with runners on the corners vs. Baltimore right-hander Ubaldo Jimenez. He swung at the first pitch he saw and sent it over the wall in left field for the second postseason homer of his career. This was the 10th extra-inning winner-take-all postseason game, and the home team has won all but one of those.
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