Editing Toronto Blue Jays (section)

==Rivalries==

===Montreal Expos===
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The [[Montreal Expos]] were the Blue Jays' geographic [[National League (baseball)|National League]] rival, being the other Canadian MLB team before it was relocated. From 1978 to 1986, the teams played an annual mid-season exhibition game known as the [[Pearson Cup]], named after former [[Prime Minister of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Lester B. Pearson]]. The teams began facing each other in the regular season in 1997 with the advent of [[interleague play]]. During the 2003 and 2004 seasons, the Expos' last two seasons before relocating to Washington, D.C., as the [[Washington Nationals|Nationals]], the Pearson Cup was awarded after a pair of three-game sets.
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===Detroit Tigers===
The [[Detroit Tigers]] are the Blue Jays' geographic and traditional rival, dating back to the 1980s, when the teams were AL East contenders. The Tigers moved to the [[American League Central|AL Central]] in 1998, and the rivalry has died down as a result, with the teams facing each other only six to seven times per year since 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.torontosun.com/2014/06/03/jays-tigers-rivalry-isnt-what-it-used-to-be|title=Jays-Tigers rivalry isn't what it used to be|last=Buffery|first=Steve|work=torontosun.com|date=June 3, 2014|access-date=June 25, 2015}}</ref> Depending on traffic and border delays, Detroit is about a four-hour drive from Toronto. According to ''[[The Detroit News]]'', a July 2017 three-game series at [[Comerica Park]] against the Blue Jays drew a season-best-to-date total attendance of 115,088.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/columnists/john-niyo/2017/07/16/niyo-picture-still-cloudy-muddled-tigers/103761204/|title=Niyo: Picture still cloudy for muddled Tigers|work=Detroit News|access-date=July 18, 2017|quote=Not just with all those Blue Jays fans flocking to downtown Detroit, thousands of them among a crowd for the finale of three-game series that drew a season-best 115,088 attendance.}}</ref>
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===Seattle Mariners===
Although the [[Seattle Mariners]] are not a divisional rival, many Blue Jays fans from Western Canada travel to Seattle when the Blue Jays play there as Seattle is geographically closer to Western Canada than Toronto is. Depending on traffic and border delays, Seattle is about a three-hour drive from [[Vancouver]]. ''[[The Seattle Times]]'' estimated that Blue Jays fans represented around 70 percent of the crowd in [[T-Mobile Park|Safeco Field]] for a June 2017 weekend series.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/what-safeco-field-is-like-when-it-gets-invaded-by-blue-jays-fans/|title=What Safeco Field Is Like When It Gets Invaded by Blue Jays Fans|website=Sports|date=June 12, 2017 |language=en-ca|access-date=July 18, 2017}}</ref>
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