George Kirby has pitched at the Rogers Centre in the post-season before. It’s a game he will always remember, and a moment every Jays fan is desperate to forget.

Oct. 8, 2022. Ring a bell?

That was Game 2 of the wild-card series — as in, the game in which the Blue Jays blew an 8-1 lead and suffered a soul-crushing, history-making loss. Kirby, fresh off his rookie season with the Mariners, came in to close that game. He pitched one hitless innings and celebrated atop the Rogers Centre mound. In that moment, Toronto’s season came to an end.

He could do the same thing to the Blue Jays tonight. The Jays saw Kirby last week in Game 3 in Seattle and they pounced, scoring eight runs in just four innings in an eventual 13-4 loss. Andres Gimenez, George Springer and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. home

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