Trailing 10 – 4 entering the bottom of the 9th, the Blue Jays stage the biggest 9th-inning comeback in team history to defeat the Angels, 11 – 10. Kevin Pillar hits a two-run homer and Steve Pearce caps things off with a walk-off grand slam off Bud Norris – his second in four days. Only two other players before Pearce, Cy Williams in 1926 and Jim Presley in 1986 had ever hit two walk-off grand slams in a season.

On July 30, 2017 — Trailing 10 – 4 entering the bottom of the 9th, the Blue Jays stage the biggest 9th-inning comeback in team history to defeat the Angels, 11 – 10. Kevin Pillar hits a two-run homer and Steve Pearce caps things off with a walk-off grand slam off Bud Norris – his second in four days. Only two other players before Pearce, Cy Williams in 1926 and Jim Presley in 1986 had ever hit two walk-off grand slams in a season.

 


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