VIDEO: Blue Jays Overcome Late 6-Run Deficit to Score Wild Walk-Off Win in Extra Innings
By Jerry Trotta
The Blue Jays might be scrapping it out in the baseball's basement for the league's worst record, but that doesn't mean the club has no fight in them. Toronto found themselves down 9-3 to the Rays entering the bottom half of the eighth inning on Saturday, but suddenly, the rest was history: Brandon Drury and Teoscar Hernandez hit back-to-back solo jacks in the frame; their heroics were shortly followed by a Vladimir Guerrero Jr. three-run bomb and another Drury solo shot in the ninth, thus sending the game to extras. Fast forward to the 12th inning, when Hernandez would make his way to the plate again and proceeded to call game with a walk-off dinger to dead-center.
That's truly as good as it gets. The sad part about it all, however, is that thousands of Jays fans absolutely turned the game off early on and missed this instant classic.
And playing a little spoiler against your playoff-aspirational division rival makes the dub all the more special.