Toronto Blue Jays fever has hit Canadians everywhere from coast-to-coast, with the excitement also taking the social media world by storm.
During Friday’s 6-4 loss to the Texas Rangers in Game 2 of their playoff series, the terms #BlueJays, @BlueJays or “Blue Jays” were mentioned over 140,000 times on Twitter, according to data provided by the social media company.
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Several of the Jays players garnered thousands of mentions as well but it should come as no surprise that American League MVP candidate Josh Donaldson led the way.
Donaldson, who had a monster first season in Toronto hitting 41 homers while knocking in 123 runs, was mentioned more than 19,000 times, over 5,000 more times than the team’s starting pitcher Marcus Stroman.
The fans were pretty active when Donaldson crushed a full-count offering from Cole Hamels out of the Rogers Centre in the first inning with an average of over 1,200 tweets per minute — but that was only the second-most-active Jays-Rangers moment on Twitter Friday.
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Over 2,200 tweets per minute were sent as the game came to a close after 14 innings, with Jays fans likely trying to console each other after watching their team fall two games behind the Rangers.
While the Blue Jays finished behind the Rangers on the final scoreboard, they were mentioned more than 36,000 times, 2,000 more than their opposition.
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