TORONTO — Addison Barger wouldn’t say he was feeling restless, per se, but when the Toronto Blue Jays utility man was waiting to find out just when he’d be entering Game 1 of the World Series, it was, as he describes it, “stressful.”

On Friday night, Barger wasn’t in the starting lineup since Los Angeles Dodgers ace Blake Snell is a lefty, so the 25-year-old Barger spent more than two hours of the game warming up with a pitching machine while watching the game on TV. “You have to be mentally locked into the game, knowing that any moment you can be in there,” Barger explained.

Well, his moment came in the sixth inning, and what a momentous, historic one Barger turned it into.

The stage sure was set: Earlier in the inning, the Blue Jays had taken a 5-2 lead, there was just one out and the

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