TORONTO — George Springer has become a hero in Toronto, where his five-year tenure with the team culminated in his go-ahead home run in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series last week.
But in Los Angeles, the veteran slugger remains a villain for his role on the 2017 Houston Astros team that beat the Dodgers in that year’s World Series — and was later found to have been stealing signs with their trash-can-banging system that year.
Though Springer was among the more apologetic players from that Astros team after the scandal went public in 2019 — “I regret everything,” he said at the time — he has nonetheless been greeted with vociferous boos in every return trip to Dodger Stadium since.