{"id":112156,"date":"2025-06-18T04:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T04:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/112156\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T04:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T04:14:14","slug":"blue-jays-use-long-ball-for-walkoff-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/112156\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays use long ball for walkoff victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2013 Like a golfer admiring a drive, Blue Jays slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr. crushed a home run on Tuesday and couldn\u2019t help but hold the pose for an extra second to watch the ball fly over the wall.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Teammate Addison Barger provided some theatre of his own with a no-doubt blast \u2014 complete with a bat flip \u2014 in the ninth inning that gave Toronto a walkoff victory.<\/p>\n<p>Bo Bichette also flashed some power with a game-tying solo homer before Barger ended it as the Blue Jays topped the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-4 for their 22nd comeback win of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHuge swing from him, huge swing from Bo, both with two strikes,\u201d said Blue Jays manager John Schneider. \u201cI love the way they went about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was the fifth time in franchise history that Toronto walked off a game with back-to-back homers. Barger also hit the game winner the last time it happened on Aug. 23 against the Los Angeles Angels.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRelated Videos\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Blue Jays fans skip out on Seattle series over U.S. trade war'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1750220052_120_WEB_6P_BLUE_JAYS_IN_SEATTLE.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2:22<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBlue Jays fans skip out on Seattle series over U.S. trade war\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tPrevious Video<\/p>\n<p>\t\tNext Video<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just don\u2019t want to play extras,\u201d Barger said with a laugh. \u201cI don\u2019t think anybody wants to play extras, so that\u2019s all the motivation I really need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto (39-33) ended its three-game losing skid and improved to 23-13 at Rogers Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Hoffman (6-2) threw an inning of relief for the win. Blue Jays right-hander Chris Bassitt had a quality start, allowing three earned runs and six hits over six frames.<\/p>\n<p>Guerrero set the early tone with an RBI double that scored Barger in the first inning before delivering a majestic blast in the third that travelled 448 feet, a team best on the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you get the top of the order rolling, I think we\u2019re pretty dangerous,\u201d Schneider said.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The announced crowd of 38,537 roared as Guerrero casually dropped the bat to begin a slow trot around the bases. He was 3-for-4 on the night \u2014 his 22nd multi-hit game of the season \u2014 and had three RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>Schneider moved Barger up a spot to No. 2 in the lineup between Bichette and Guerrero with Alejandro Kirk in the cleanup position.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11244132\/canada-strong-pass\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/648a4bf11ca86d9b8f037dfabf8be0947a3540ae45a04d1b42c4f9f2aeba337a.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCanada Strong Pass grants free admission to national parks, historic sites this summer\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11244057\/gas-prices-oil-spike\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/langley-gas-price.png\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tWhy have gas prices gone up recently, and will they keep climbing?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The move paid dividends as the top third of the order scored five runs had seven of Toronto\u2019s nine hits.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Sports<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Vladdy being comfortable in the three hole is real,\u201d Schneider said. \u201cThe numbers are what they are and conversations with him are what they are.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m glad it worked out today, but I think you have to have people around him to make it work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Diamondbacks reliever Shelby Miller (3-2) shouldered the loss as Arizona (36-36) fell back to the .500 mark. Josh Naylor of Mississauga, Ont., had two hits and a run for the Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays had four outfielders \u2014 Will Robertson, Jonatan Clase, Myles Straw and Alan Roden \u2014 play in centre field over the course of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Clase got the start but left the game after the fourth inning when he was hit by a pitch in the right knee area. He was replaced by Straw, who suffered a right ankle sprain in the next frame.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The three-game series continues on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 17, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2013 Like a golfer admiring a drive, Blue Jays slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr. crushed a home run&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[5,377,10864,2554,4,185,282,70,2553],"class_list":{"0":"post-112156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-blue-jays","10":"tag-blue-jays-baseball","11":"tag-bluejays","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-toronto","15":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","16":"tag-torontobluejays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114702428704437693","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}