The Toronto Blue Jays are partying like it's 1992.
On Friday night, the Blue Jays dispatched of the Detroit Tigers to improve to 62-42 on the season. That's the best record in Major League Baseball.
The last time the Blue Jays were atop MLB this late in the season was 1992, according to Sportsnet.
The 1992 season was the first of consecutive World Series championships for Toronto, so this is quite the good omen.
The Blue Jays are on an absurd tear in July. They're now 16-4 this month.
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Toronto had a losing record at the end of April, but then went 16-12 in May, 16-10 in June and has won 80% of its games so far in July.
They were eight games back in the AL East on May 28, but they now hold a 5.0-game lead on the Yankees (pending New York's Friday result).
It's been just a phenomenal stretch of baseball, with strong hitting, pitching and defense all combining to win a bunch of close games and once in a while put up a boatload of runs, too.
Toronto is behind its team, and that's a city that's fun to watch when the Blue Jays are going well. And right now, they're playing better than they have in more than three decades.
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