With Addison Barger and Isiah Kiner-Falefa on base, George Springer hit a 96mph (154 km/h) sinker from Mariners pitcher Eduard Bazardo 380 feet to left field (approximately the length of three 132-foot booms available on some John Deere sprayers).
The home run gave the Blue Jays a 4-3 lead the team wouldn’t relinquish.
Two members of the Blue Jays roster have connections to agriculture.
Pitcher Chris Bassitt, who pitched in the eighth inning of Monday’s game, has earned the nickname “Father Nature” for his love of rural life and farming.
An episode of Extra Innings, which follows Blue Jays players in the offseason, visits Bassitt’s property in North Carolina where he lives with his family and maintains the land with his Kubota tractor.
“Some days I get to like go out to the farm, relax, and I have really nothing to do,” he says in the short documentary. “Then some days it’s like, dang, I got a lot of work.”
The property is his escape from baseball.
In the offseason, conversations about baseball are replaced with talks about hunting, fishing, and beavers, his wife Jessica says.
The other Blue Jay connection to ag comes from pitcher Seranthony Dominguez.
He grew up in the Dominican Republic, working on a chicken farm to support his family who were dairy farmers.