{"id":238346,"date":"2025-10-25T03:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T03:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/238346\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T03:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T03:07:07","slug":"toronto-blue-jays-addison-barger-hits-first-pinch-hit-grand-slam-in-world-series-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/238346\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays&#8217; Addison Barger hits first pinch-hit grand slam in World Series history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Blue Jays outfielder Addison Barger hit the first pinch-hit grand slam in World Series history in Game 1 against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Batting for Davis Schneider against left-hander Anthony Banda, Barger drilled a 2-1 slider 413 feet to right-center, his third home run of these playoffs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Barger\u2019s homer was the first postseason grand slam in Blue Jays history, and the big blow in a nine-run, six-hit frame that gave Toronto an 11-2 lead over the defending World Series champions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Alejandro Kirk added a two-run homer later in the inning for the Blue Jays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It marked the third-highest run total in a single inning in World Series history. The Athletics had 10 runs in the seventh against the Cubs in Game 4 in 1929, and the Tigers matched that in the third inning of Game 6 against the Cardinals in 1968.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto is in the World Series for the first time since winning the second of back-to-back titles in 1993.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Barger hit 21 home runs in the regular season, his second in the majors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"> ___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ian Harrison, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Blue Jays outfielder Addison Barger hit the first pinch-hit grand slam in World Series history&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-238346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}