Ninth-inning grand slam by Steve Pearce gives Blue Jays 11-10 win

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Steve Pearce drilled a grand slam in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Toronto Blues an improbable 11-10 walk-off victory over the visiting Angels on Sunday. 

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It was his second walk-off grand slam in four games and helped the Jays overcome a six-run deficit in the final frame. On Thursday, his grand slam in the bottom of the tenth broke a 4-4 tie and helped the Jays secure a four-game sweep of the Oakland Athletics.

His heroics against the Angels came with the Jays two outs away from losing by a big margin again on a Sunday.  In three of their previous Sunday games, they had lost 8-1 at the Indians, 19-1 vs. Houston and 15-1 against the Red Sox. 

 

 

Down 10-4 to the Angels, Toronto got a two-run homer by Kevin Pillar to start the ninth, followed by a Rob Refsnyder ground-rule double that chased Brook Pounders and brought on Bud Norris. He gave up two singles before getting Justin Smoak to ground out. He walked Kendrys Morales on a full count to load the bases and then watched a 2-0 offering to Pearce get hammered to left.

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