It’s been quite a whirlwind few days for Toronto Blue Jays slugger Addison Barger.

Early Friday, Barger found out that he’d be out of Toronto’s starting lineup for Game 1 of the World Series, part of a lineup shuffle to fit Bo Bichette in for his first game of the postseason.

But keeping ready for his big moment, Barger eventually came up clutch in the sixth inning, as he knocked home the first-ever pinch-hit Grand Slam in World Series history.

The four-run bomb gave the Blue Jays a 9-2 lead in the game, pushing the lead from “slightly comfortable” to “almost completely out of reach.”

“I don’t even know how to describe it. I couldn’t feel my legs. I just kind of blacked out,” Barger said in a postgame interview with Sportsnet.

The night before Barger made his World Series debut, he w

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