"Daulton Varsho's walk-off grand slam in the bottom of the tenth inning on Wednesday was a moment the Toronto Blue Jays had been waiting for seemingly all season. An exclamation point to end what had been a frustrating home series against their division rivals, the Tampa Bay Rays."
"While walk-off aren't an every day occurrence they happen often enough that every team will likely have a couple of them in any given season. The Blue Jays had nine in 2025, although only one of them was a walk-off him run. That came courtesy of Addison Barger, when he hit a solo shot to win the game on June 17, against the Diamondbacks."
"But the walk-off grand slam, however, is incredibly rare, so much so that Varsho's slam was only the fifth one in Blue Jays' history. The last one came by a guy who managed to have one of the craziest weeks of his career with the Blue Jays, and that was Steve Pearce. Out of the four walk-off grand slams in Blue Jays history before Wednesday, Pearce had two of them, and they came in the same week."
"George Bell was the first Blue Jay to accomplish the feat, hitting a walk-off home run on Sept. 4 1988 against the Texas Rangers. Catcher Gregg Zaun hit his almost twenty years later to the date of Bell's grand slam. Zaun helped the Blue Jays walk off the Rays on Sept. 6, 2008. Then nothing happened for another nine years, until the week that Pearce decided to make history."
Daulton Varsho delivered a walk-off grand slam in the bottom of the tenth to finish a frustrating home series against the Tampa Bay Rays. Walk-offs occur often enough for teams to record multiple in a season, and the Blue Jays had nine in 2025, though only one was a walk-off home run. That lone 2025 walk-off homer was hit by Addison Barger. A walk-off grand slam is far rarer, with Varsho’s shot becoming only the fifth in Blue Jays history. The previous walk-off grand slam came from Steve Pearce, who hit two in the same week, a feat also previously achieved by George Bell and Gregg Zaun in earlier years.
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