{"id":244636,"date":"2025-10-28T01:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T01:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/244636\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T01:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T01:46:07","slug":"alejandro-kirk-gives-toronto-blue-jays-lead-in-game-3-with-second-world-series-homer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/244636\/","title":{"rendered":"Alejandro Kirk gives Toronto Blue Jays lead in Game 3 with second World Series homer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Catcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/alejandro-kirk\/1071614\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/alejandro-kirk\/1071614\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Kirk<\/a> showed off his power in the fourth inning of Game 3 of the 2025 World Series, hitting a three-run homer off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-dodgers\/243\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-dodgers\/243\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> starter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/tyler-glasnow\/597835\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/tyler-glasnow\/597835\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Glasnow<\/a> to give the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/toronto-blue-jays\/238\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/toronto-blue-jays\/238\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> a 3-2 lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The blast scored <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/vladimir-guerrero-jr\/920245\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/vladimir-guerrero-jr\/920245\" target=\"_blank\">Vladimir Guerrero Jr.<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/bo-bichette\/917949\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/bo-bichette\/917949\" target=\"_blank\">Bo Bichette<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Guerrero Jr. opened the inning with a walk and then went first to third when Bichette reached on an error by Dodgers second baseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/tommy-edman\/873704\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/tommy-edman\/873704\" target=\"_blank\">Tommy Edman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The round-tripper was Kirk\u2019s second home run of the World Series &#8211; he also went deep in the Blue Jays\u2019 11-4 victory in Game 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With five home runs in this postseason, Kirk has tied <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/cal-raleigh\/915772\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/cal-raleigh\/915772\" target=\"_blank\">Cal Raleigh<\/a> (2025) and Sandy Alomar Jr. (1997) for most by a catcher in a single playoff run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 26-year-old hit a career-high 15 home runs during the regular season, and drove in a personal-best 76 runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Catcher Alejandro Kirk showed off his power in the fourth inning of Game 3 of the 2025 World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[712,49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-244636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244636","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=244636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}