These are the Top 10 moments in Blue Jays history

TORONTO -- As we enter the 50th season in Blue Jays history, they’re no longer the new kids on the block.

You can step back and see all of the different eras now, from those frigid, early days on the shores of Lake Ontario at Exhibition Stadium through those great teams of the 1980s, their back-to-back World Series titles in 1992-93 and everything we’ve witnessed since.

Toronto’s 2025 World Series run finally brought baseball back to life across Canada with the Blue Jays drawing nearly half the country to watch parts of Game 7 against the Dodgers. Though they fell painfully short in extra innings, it felt like the beginning of a new era of baseball in Toronto with more moments to come.

By now, the Blue Jays have given us so many great moments that narrowing the list down to 10 is a challenge. Edwin Encarnación’s walk-off in the 2016 Wild Card Game and Josh Donaldson’s mad dash home to win the ALDS that season just missed the cut, but only because those ‘25 Blue Jays gave us some new memories. Here are the Top 10 moments in franchise history … so far:

1. Touch ‘em all, Joe!

Let’s really ask ourselves: What would need to happen for a moment to unseat Joe Carter’s walk-off home run in the 1993 World Series as the greatest moment in this franchise’s history? A perfect game to win the World Series? Hitting for the cycle in Game 7, ending it with a walk-off? The bar is so high.

This wasn’t just the greatest moment in Blue Jays history, it’s one of the greatest moments this game has ever seen. This was -- and still is -- just the second time in MLB history that the World Series ended on a walk-off home run as Carter joined Bill Mazeroski of the Pirates in 1960.

The moment made Carter a legend in Toronto, a title he’s worn well for three-plus decades. Carter is still a constant around the Blue Jays, often appearing at alumni events to relive that famous swing, over and over again. He never gets tired of telling those stories, either. How could you?

2. The 1992 World Series

The Blue Jays’ first World Series win also ended with Carter, in a way. Up 4-3 in the 11th inning of Game 6, Mike Timlin fielded a bunt from Otis Nixon and flipped it to Carter at first base for the final out, clinching the first World Series ever won by a team outside the United States.

“There’s a bunted ball, first-base side!” bellowed the voice of the great Tom Cheek. “Timlin to Carter, and the Blue Jays win it! The Blue Jays are World Series champions! They come pouring out of the dugout and they are mobbing Carter. They go down in one big collective heap over by the first-base bag here. There’s a big pileup. Somebody at the bottom might be hurt in all of that. The Blue Jays have won the World Series! Canada, let it all out! It’s party time! It was a long time coming, but it’s here!”

3. Springer’s ALCS Game 7 home run

Down 3-1 in the bottom of the seventh inning in Game 7 of the ALCS against the Mariners, it looked like the Blue Jays’ dream season in 2025 was about to stall out before the World Series. Then, George Springer walked to the plate, took a long, deep breath and dug in.

Already beaten and hobbled by a long list of injuries, the 36-year-old Springer was running on fumes at that point, but this was the exact type of moment the Blue Jays had brought him to Toronto for, given his postseason pedigree and uncanny ability to show up in the game’s biggest moments. Then, magic happened. Springer turned on a 1-0 pitch and launched a three-run home run to left field to give the Blue Jays the lead.

That may be the defining image of the 2025 Blue Jays when we look back on them years from now. Springer, leaping and bouncing up the line with his arms down by his sides, screaming into the air, was an epic moment in this organization’s history. It didn’t end how the Blue Jays wanted -- like No. 1 and No. 2 on this list -- but we’ll be talking about that swing from Springer for the rest of our lives.

4. Winfield’s double down the line

Dave Winfield’s double in Game 6 of the 1992 World Series needs its own PR campaign to get it back on the map. It’s the single most underrated moment in Blue Jays history, not nearly given enough attention among the great things we’ve seen from this team over the past 50 years.

Tied 2-2 in the top of the 11th in Game 6, Winfield pulled a double between the third baseman and the bag, rolling it into the left-field corner to score Devon White and Roberto Alomar. The 40-year-old future Hall of Famer had come to the Blue Jays chasing the ring that had always eluded him, but this moment brought it home.

5. Bichette’s World Series Game 7 home run off Ohtani

It’s a shame that we can’t hold this moment up as the second-greatest in this franchise’s history, behind only Carter. It still belongs high on the list, though, because of everything that led up to it and everything it could have been.

Bo Bichette had just missed seven weeks with a knee sprain and was nowhere close to 100% when he returned for the World Series, and even made the move to second base for the first time in his MLB career, where he’d be required to cover less ground. That swing against Shohei Ohtani was iconic, right down to that cool, confident stroll out of the box and his flip of the bat to the ground. It felt like Bichette had just won the World Series for the Blue Jays, even though it was only the bottom of the third inning.

6. Sprague’s pinch-hit home run in 1992

Down 4-3 in the ninth inning of Game 2 in the 1992 World Series, the Blue Jays were one inning away from a 2-0 series deficit against the Braves. In stepped Ed Sprague, the 24-year-old who’d appeared in just 22 games that season without making much of an impact.

Pinch-hitting for Duane Ward when the pitcher’s spot came around in the lineup, Sprague launched a two-run home run off Jeff Reardon, one of the most surprising moments in Blue Jays history. Sprague went on to play parts of 11 seasons in the big leagues, but he’ll always be remembered in Toronto for that pinch-hit home run in ‘92.

7. Stieb’s no-hitter … finally!

No-hitters had haunted Dave Stieb. He’d lost a perfect game with two outs in the ninth and two no-hitters at the same spot, falling painfully short over and over again. Finally, on Sept. 2, 1990, it happened.

“FINALLY!” read the front page of the Toronto Star the next day.

Stieb stands alongside Roy Halladay as the two greatest pitchers in Blue Jays history, and if those great Blue Jays teams of the 1980s had gone a little deeper in the postseason, Stieb would have more of a profile across baseball. One of the great pitchers of the ‘80s, Stieb has long deserved a bigger piece of the conversation, but at least he finally got that no-hitter.

8. The Bat Flip

Until the 2025 Blue Jays came around, this was the new “moment” for generations of Blue Jays fans. It wasn’t just the stakes of Game 5 of the 2015 ALDS and the heated rivalry between the Blue Jays and Rangers, but the entire persona of José Bautista that made this moment incredible.

No one else could pull off that bat flip. No one else could pull off the glare Bautista gave to Sam Dyson before the ball had even landed. After a postseason drought of 22 years, the Blue Jays were suddenly cool again, baseball’s bad boys who wanted to beat you and let you know it. Bautista was the heart, soul and attitude of those teams. This moment deserves a statue.

9. Alomar’s ALCS home run in 1992

This home run in Game 4 of the ALCS against the A’s was part of an incredible comeback to give the Blue Jays a commanding 3-1 lead in the series. After scoring three runs the inning prior, Alomar’s two-run shot off Dennis Eckersley in the top of the ninth tied the game and sent it to extra innings, where Pat Borders brought home the winning run with a sacrifice fly. A few days later, in Game 6 back at SkyDome, the Blue Jays punched their ticket to their first World Series in franchise history.

10. One … Two … Three … Four for Delgado

Any list about the Blue Jays feels incomplete without Carlos Delgado, one of the greatest players this franchise has seen who, unfortunately, had his career fall in between the club’s postseason windows. Delgado had a remarkable career -- one deserving of a longer Hall of Fame discussion than he was given -- but one of his finest days came on Sept. 25, 2003.

Beyond Stieb’s no-hitter, this was the biggest single-game accomplishment by a Blue Jays hitter in a regular-season game. Delgado went 4-for-4 with four home runs and six RBIs that day in a 10-8 win over Tampa Bay, and while the Blue Jays were stuck in a powerhouse AL East without the extra Wild Card spots to help them, Delgado was worth the price of admission himself most nights.