Sleeve Fierce, holy shit!

After a long afternoon of what seemed destined to be more soul-crushing baseball wearing their cursed red abominations, the Toronto Blue Jays did a hell of a thing on Sunday, lighting Bud Norris and Brooks Pounders the fuck up. A seven run ninth inning! An 11-10 victory! A game most sensible people would have turned off or left — and judging by all the empty seats at the end, many did — turned into an epic comeback and one of the greatest Blue Jays moments of this dogshit season.

Goins walks. Pillar homers. Refsnyder doubles. Carrera singles. Martin singles. Smoak grounds out. Morales walks. And then Steve fucking Pearce blasts one to end it.

WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED?!!?!?!?

And here are all the various radio and TV calls of the slam, via the great @James_in_TO:

You know, I know this season has got people down after riding the highs of the last couple years, but we forget so quickly that for a long time the mantra around here was simply “get us meaningful baseball in September,” and even though they’re maybe not going to quite be able to do that this year, with the right tweaks they can certainly do it in 2018 — and, damn it, it will be fun as hell if they do. I’m not saying that’s enough, I’m just saying it will be fun. And that I can’t believe there are people out there who genuinely want this team to be bad. Because this team and these players can be fun, as easy as that’s been to forget sometimes. And this was fuckin’ amazing!!