The Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers will meet in the 2025 World Series that gets underway on Friday night from Toronto.
The first two games of the World Series will be played at Rogers Centre, which means the Blue Jays get to choose two ceremonial first pitches.
The Blue Jays announced who will throw out the ceremonial first pitch for Game 1 and Game 2 and Blue Jays fans will be excited to hear these legends will be back in the stadium.
Blue Jays reveal World Series ceremonial first pitches
The Blue Jays will have Cito Gaston throw out the ceremonial first pitch in Game 1 of the World Series and Joe Carter throw it out in Game 2.
With Toronto back in its first World Series since 1993, there’s no better ceremonial first pitch nominees than those who participated in the 1992 and 1993 World Series.
Gaston managed the Blue Jays for 13 seasons from 1989 to 1997 and from 2008 to 2010, and managed their back-to-back World Series teams in 1992 and 1993.
#WorldSeries first pitches in Toronto from a pair of legendary Blue Jays:
Game 1: Cito Gaston (r), manager of the 1992-93 world champs
Game 2: Joe Carter (l), two-time champ and 1993 Game 6 hero pic.twitter.com/aNtFNGTz5X— MLB (@MLB) October 24, 2025
The former Blue Jays’ manager earned 894 wins as a manager and finished top 5 in the Manager of the Year voting six times.
Now, with the Blue Jays in the World Series for the first time since Gaston’s team in 1993, he’ll have the honor of throwing out the ceremonial first pitch in Game 1.
In Game 2, it will be Carter, who was the Blue Jays’ Game 6 hero in their 1993 World Series.
On this day in 1993, Joe Carter touched em all pic.twitter.com/rAFTJ2TY6G
— Just Baseball (@JustBB_Media) October 23, 2025
The Blue Jays last World Series championship came in 1993, and it came via a walk-off three-run home run from Carter. Now, he’ll throw out the ceremonial first pitch in Game 2 of the World Series, the first time the Blue Jays have been back since his home run that is the greatest hit in Blue Jays’ franchise history.
Carter played seven of his 16 years in the MLB with the Blue Jays, and was a five-time All-Star in Toronto.
With Gaston and Carter throwing out the first pitches at Rogers Centre this weekend, Toronto will be rocking to get Games 1 and 2 of the 2025 World Series underway.
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