LOS ANGELES — The magnitude of the moment, the emotional reaction and the viral explosion attached to Davis Schneider’s huge leadoff home run on Wednesday night will live on in Blue Jays infamy.

But for the close-knit family that lives vicariously through their son and brother’s accomplishments, it’s lump-in-your-throat stuff.

A 373-foot blast that just cleared the wall in left field at Dodger Stadium — on the first pitch of the game, no less — will live on in the famous moments of Blue Jays (and Canadian) sports history for its role in a 6-1 Toronto win over the Dodgers in Game 5 of the World Series.

If you know the story of Schneider and his family, though, it’s hard not to appreciate the wonder of the moment following the storybook performance of Schneider right there at Chavez Ravine.

His father Steve, in the stands at Dodger Stadium, captured the rawness of it in a brilliant extended post to ‘X’ offering his view of his son’s big moment.

“Oh no, no way, no way,” the elder Schneider screams into the Los Angeles night after the greatest swing of his youngest child’s career cleared the wall. “You’ve got to be kidding me.”

The video, which so clearly opens a window into the Schneider family’s joy, almost instantly went viral. But it also speaks deeply to the close family connection all of the Schneiders have to Davis and how his accomplishments with the Jays have brought healing power.

Steve his wife Elena and their two daughters, Madeline and Olivia, are living vicariously through the baby brother’s big-league accomplishments.

And all of them believe that the fourth child, Steven, who died in 2020, is along for this magical World Series ride as well.

You see Steven, as the big, older brother, always was at Davis’ side, mentoring him in life and in baseball and leading the cheers as his career reached the pros.

Though he never got to see baby bro make it to the bigs, his presence is still felt profoundly by the New Jersey family.

“(Steven) would definitely be here with me, cheering me on and being a fanboy,” Davis Schneider told the Toronto Sun prior to the start of the World Series. “He would be with me every step of the way. Still is. He would tell me if we lost, he would have kicked my ass. That’s just the way he was. He was always a winner and he wanted me to win and try my hardest.”

Like the rest of the tight-knit family, every success he has with the Jays is an emotional rallying point, which makes Steve Schneider’s frequent fan posts all the more poignant and a hit with Jays fans.

“I think about them every day,” Davis Schneider said of his family. “You know, they’ve been through a lot in their lives, we’ve been through a lot. And they’re just as deserving of this as me. The fact that my dad was at (Game 7 of the ALCS) meant a lot to me because, like I said, he’s been through a lot. It was so cool to see him smile and be as happy as me.”

It would have been impossible for any of the Schneiders not to be thinking of Steven on Wednesday when their other son got things rolling on what would be a huge night for a once-lightly regarded prospect that the Jays selected in the 28th round of the 2017 draft.

That he even made it to the big leagues — where he debuted in 2023 — is a minor sporting miracle. But to do what he just did on the sport’s grandest stage, there are barely words.

The Schneiders were in the stadium cheering him on, but you can be sure they also felt the presence of Steven, a figure Steve described to the Toronto Sun in a previous interview as an inspiration for Davis.

“It has to be part of what motivates Davis,” Steve Schneider told us in April 2024. “It could have gone one of two ways for him. He could have just believed the world was terrible, that he had lost his brother. But he turned it into a positive and said ‘I’m going to keep doin this and he’s going to be with me.’”

When Steven Schneider passed, Davis still was years away from the majors. But the dream barely flickered and Schneider stuck with it, eventually getting the call for an Aug, 4, 2023, Blue Jays debut.

And that was the first time he hit a big league homer in his first at-bat, clobbering one over the wall at Fenway Park in a dream come true for the family.

“It just seemed like he had an angel on his shoulder,” Steve Schneider said. “It was something to behold. It’s something we’ll be forever grateful for. And for whatever success Davis has, Steven is with him.”

Including right there in Dodger Stadium, as a family who has lived through so much, revelled in the joy of their inspired youngest son.