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Blue Jays: Joe Carter’s home run is finally getting a statue
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Ryley Delaney
Feb 2, 2026, 12:45 ESTUpdated: Feb 2, 2026, 12:50 EST
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The Toronto Blue Jays are building their first player statue outside Rogers Centre.
On Monday, the team announced that Joe Carter’s World Series-winning home run will be immortalized with a statue outside their home stadium, between gates 5 and six. The Blue Jays are set to celebrate their 50th anniversary in the big leagues in 2026, and on July 18th, the statue will be unveiled.
It’s a statue that should’ve been built a long time ago. Carter spent seven of his 16 big league seasons with the Jays, helping the team win the World Series in both 1992 and 1993. With the Blue Jays down 8-6 in the ninth inning of Game 6 of the 1993 World Series, Carter stepped up to the plate with two runners on.
With one swing of the bat on the fifth pitcher, Carter hit a blast to left field to walk-off the Phillies, giving the Blue Jays their second consecutive World Series title. It’s the first and only time the World Series has been won on Canadian soil.
Carter’s home run is one of the most memorable in Major League Baseball history, and easily the most notable home run in Blue Jays history. Walking off a game to win the World Series title has only been done one other time, when Bill Mazeroski hit a lead-off home run in the ninth inning of Game 7 in 1960.
What ensued for the Blue Jays is a lengthy playoff drought that lasted 21 seasons, one of the longest in MLB’s history. Once breaking that playoff drought, the Jays lost in back-to-back American League Championship Series, with the 2015 ALCS being particularly heartbreaking. 
Further down the road, it’s not hard to envision José Bautista also getting a statue built outside Rogers Centre (or a new building depending on how far down the road it is) thanks to his bat flip home run in 2015. While that only led to a win in the American League Divisional Series, it’s one of the most memorable home runs from a Blue Jay in my generation.
Well, that was until the 2025 postseason, in which the Vladimir Guerrero Jr.-led Blue Jays broke through. They smashed the Yankees, got a massive three-run home run from George Springer in Game 7 of the American League Championship, and held a lead in Game 7 of the World Series with just two outs remaining. In fact, Carter threw out a first pitch in that World Series. So much of that run will never be forgotten, even if it didn’t turn out the Blue Jays’ way.
In the present day, Carter’s home run absolutely deserves to be immortalized, and hopefully it brings good luck to the Jays in 2026 and beyond.
Ryley Delaney is a Nation Network writer for Blue Jays Nation, Oilersnation, and FlamesNation. She can be followed on Twitter @Ryley__Delaney.

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