If you like home runs, and very, very, very long baseball contests, Monday’s game between awful Baltimore and less awful Toronto was for you. The Blue Jays pulled it out in the 15th inning when Anthony Alford hit a walkoff home run for an 11-10 victory.
There were 10 home runs in the game, five a side.
Randal Grichuk got the power parade started with a three-run shot to open the scoring in the bottom of the first inning, extending his career high for dingers to 31. It was his seventh, with 17 RBI over the past 16 days.
The Blue Jays kept mashing in the second, with Brandon Drury hitting one out, followed by Jonathan Davis going deep for the second time in his career to give the Jays a 5-0 lead. Both teams actually went back-to-back in the game.
The Orioles started to pound on starter Clay Buchholz, hitting three off of him, including two by Austin Hays. Baltimore hit three home runs in all in the fifth, chasing Buchholz and grabbing a 7-6 lead. Cavan Biggio’s solo blast tied it in the 7th, but the Orioles won the game an inning later thanks to a triple, a walk and a couple of singles, all coming with two outs.
Not to be outdone, the Jays rallied in the bottom of the ninth, with Guerrero forcing extras with a sharp single after the Jays had earlier used some small-ball to get to 9-8.
The Orioles pulled in front again on yet another homer – this one by Chris Davis – in the top of the 12th, but the Jays tied it in the bottom of the inning. Guerrero reached second after a ground ball was misplayed in the 12th, Rowdy Tellez was hit by a pitch, Derek Fisher drew a walk to load the bases and Davis scored Guerrero on a sacrifice fly, but Danny Jansen lined out to short to end the inning.
Per Sportsnet, this was the first Jays game to go past Midnight ET since a 2001 tilt against the New York Yankees. It also featured 20 pitchers, 10 a side and 20 combined hits and lasted five hours and 21 minutes.
Alford mercifully finished it off, allowing the 500 or so remaining fans to head home, with his two-out blast, the first home run of his career and his first walkoff at any level.
“I was trying to hold my smile as best I could but it was pretty tough,” Alford said afterward. Alford that his teammates were thrilled he let them get out of there after one of the longest games in recent memory.
Alford might get more of a chance in the final few games because the Blue Jays said left fielder Lourdes Gurriel Jr. is done for the season and will undergo an appendectomy.
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September 24, 2019 at 01:02PM
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