The Toronto Blue Jays toppled the Los Angeles Angels on Friday night thanks to a historic walk-off home run from Addison Barger.
The Toronto Blue Jays rallied from a 4-3 deficit to beat the Los Angeles Angels on Friday night at Rogers Centre. The Blue Jays won 5-4 thanks to a game-tying home run in the ninth inning from Joey Loperfido and a game-winning home run from Addison Barger.
According to James Smyth of the YES Network, that was the fourth time in Jays history that they won a game because of a back-to-back game-tying and a game-winning home run in the same inning. Joey Loperfido & Addison Barger hit back-to-back game-tying and walk-off home runs for the Blue Jays. Gotta add them to this list. 4th time Toronto has done it:Loperfido, who was acquired in a trade deadline deal from the Houston Astros, went 2-for-4. He's now hitting .236 on the season.After the win, Toronto is now 61-68 on the year. The Angels fell to 54-75 with the loss.
The two teams will play again on Saturday afternoon with first pitch coming at 3:07 p.m. ET. Carson Fullmer will start the game for the Angels. Bowden Francis will get the ball for Toronto. Fullmer is 0-4 with a 4.24 ERA. Francis just won the American League Player of the Week Award. He's 6-3 with a 4.38.Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the host of 'The Payoff Pitch' podcast which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Videos on baseball also posted to YouTube. Brady has spent nearly a decade in sports talk radio and is a graduate of Oswego State University. You can follow him on Twitter @WDEVRadioBrady.
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