{"id":141227,"date":"2025-09-13T23:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T23:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/141227\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T23:01:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T23:01:13","slug":"comeback-kings-blue-jays-make-franchise-history-with-latest-walk-off-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/141227\/","title":{"rendered":"Comeback kings: Blue Jays make franchise history with latest walk-off win"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO \u2014 Here’s a fun stat. The Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> entered Saturday’s game with an MLB-best 44 comeback wins this season. That was tied for the franchise record with the 1993 Blue Jays, a club that, of course, captured the World Series.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Well, the 2025 team can now claim the title of comeback kings as they reached a new mark with a thrilling 5-4 win over the Baltimore Orioles<\/a> on Saturday in front of 42,461 at Rogers Centre.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Alejandro Kirk<\/a> hit a bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the ninth inning to secure the walk-off after the Blue Jays plated three runs in the ninth inning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Prior to those heroics, Orioles’ pitchers had essentially lulled the stadium to sleep.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Blue Jays offence had no answer for Orioles\u2019 right-hander Tomoyuki Sugano, who allowed just four hits \u2014 one of which was Addison Barger\u2019s 20th homer of the season \u2014 and induced two double plays over his six innings.<\/p>\n

The Blue Jays threatened in the seventh inning when right-hander Rico Garcia entered in relief for Sugano, putting runners on first and second with none out. However, Davis Schneider promptly grounded into a double play and Daulton Varsho struck out to end the frame.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trailing 3-1 in the eighth, Kirk broke an 0-for-19 skid with a pinch-hit single that cut the deficit, however, Orioles reliever Keegan Akin got Isiah Kiner-Falefa to ground out weakly to first base to end the inning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Braydon Fisher surrendered a solo homer to Coby Mayo in the ninth inning and it looked like a comeback wasn’t going to be possible.<\/p>\n

However, Varsho singled on a bunt and advanced to second on a throwing error by Akin before Ernie Clement lashed a single to left field. Joey Loperfido’s single to right plated one run and Andres Gimenez tied the game with his own single.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Max Scherzer started for the Blue Jays and, after a rough first inning, settled down nicely to retire 15 of the next 18 batters he faced.<\/p>\n

In total, the right-hander allowed just the two runs on four hits over five innings, walking two and striking out five. He tossed 91 pitches (64 strikes) and featured a fastball that topped out at 95.2 m.p.h. and averaged 93.9 m.p.h.<\/p>\n

If the Blue Jays\u2019 starting pitchers stay on turn, Scherzer will have two more regular-season starts, which figure to factor into where the 41-year-old fits into the playoff rotation.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Here’s a fun stat. The Toronto Blue Jays entered Saturday’s game with an MLB-best 44 comeback…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-141227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}