The Toronto Blue Jays are representing Canada in the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. CBC Kids News asked kids and teens what they think this Toronto Blue Jays team means to Canadians. #S

Canada’s only major league team will have an entire country behind it during the World Series and has a chance of claiming the championship of America’s pastime at a time when U.S.-Canada relations remain near historic lows.

It leads to a raucous home-field advantage. The Blue Jays’ 54-27 record at home during the regular season was the second-best mark in the majors, behind only the Phillies.

The Blue Jays and the Dodgers play Game 1 of the World Series tonight, and for Canada’s team home-field advantage is as big as the entire country.

If you tuned into the start of this year’s World Series, you likely noticed a goateed fan wearing a white suit and black bow-tie. Although it wasn’t the real Harland Sanders, who passed away in 1980, it was a man intentionally doing his best impression of the Colonel at Saturday’s Dodgers-Blue Jays game.

Ernie Clement has become baseball’s newest curiosity, a cult hero in Canada who the rest of the league is finally waking up to.

Canadians at The Athletic told us that communities nationwide are setting aside hockey rivalries and old Expos wounds to back the Jays.

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WINNIPEG/TORONTO, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Baseball brought Canadians some joy to counteract economic gloom on Friday night, when the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers, spurring nationwide celebrations.