Saunders’ win was a win for Canadian baseball fans, who have done this sort of thing before, sending former Jays reliever Steve Delabar to the 2013 game. Saunders, a native of Victoria, B.C., was announced as the final vote winner, by a landslide at that, with 17.7 million votes since the vote opened Tuesday. “I’m very humbled by it,” Saunders said Friday as the Jays swamped Detroit 6-0. By contrast, National League winner Brendan Belt of the San Francisco Giants tallied a little more than 10 million votes. This was Michael Saunders’ night, and it was fitting that his dramatic win in the fan generated final vote was shared by countless Canadians who voted in droves to send one of their own to baseball’s midsummer classic in San Diego Tuesday.

Source: thestar July 09, 2016 02:40 UTC