It has become a date on the calendar to define Toronto Blue Jays baseball, good and bad.

There was Oct. 4, 2016, the day Edwin Encarnacion rocked a three-run homer in the 11th inning of an AL wildcard game to send the Jays to a 5-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles.

Then there was Oct. 4, 2023, a defining game for the wrong reasons, a 2-0 loss to the Minnesota Twins that sent the team spiralling downwards.

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And now this: Oct. 4, 2025 in what had all the feel of a monumental breakthrough moment in the current era of Blue Jays baseball, a thorough and dominating 10-1 thrashing of their division rival New York Yankees.

Though it was a complete win in so many ways, let’s also call it the official playoff coming out party of the riches

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