{"id":894573,"date":"2026-09-13T19:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T19:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/894573\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T19:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T19:52:10","slug":"it-finally-happened-blue-jays-fans-react-to-guerreros-slump-busting-homer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/894573\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It finally happened&#8217;: Blue Jays fans react to Guerrero&#8217;s slump-busting homer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s taken over a year, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/vladimir-guerrero-jr-\/fa26a373-a427-4558-ba5e-6d6c0f0148c5\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"fa26a373-a427-4558-ba5e-6d6c0f0148c5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vladimir Guerrero Jr.<\/a> has finally hit a regular-season home run at Rogers Centre. <\/p>\n<p>On a 3-2 pitch at the bottom of the fifth inning in a tight, must-win game against the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/toronto-blue-jays\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"toronto-blue-jays\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> star slugger pumped a 79 m.p.h. sweeper from Trevor Rogers to left field to, at long last, send the home crowd into a frenzy. <\/p>\n<p>It was a sound Blue Jays fans had sorely missed, as Guerrero hasn&#8217;t hit a round-tripper at home in the regular season since a showdown against the Texas Rangers back in August of 2025 \u2014 he, of course, treated fans to a couple clutch dingers at home in the playoffs, however, with his last coming in Game 6 of the ALCS against the Seattle Mariners. <\/p>\n<p>Calling it a trying year for the $500 million man, as he entered play on Sunday with a .259 batting average and only eight homers on the year. But in baseball, sometimes all it takes is one swing to change your fortunes. <\/p>\n<p>Toronto fans, desperate for the face of their franchise to find his form, reacted appropriately when Guerrero left the park. Those in the crowd gave him a long-awaited standing ovation, while fans at home and on the internet went wild. Here are some of the best reactions to Guerrero&#8217;s slump-busting blast. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s taken over a year, but Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has finally hit a regular-season home run at Rogers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":894574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-894573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894573","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=894573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}