Reliving the Top Moments of the Blue Jays' Regular Season

The 2025 Toronto Blue Jays season had some magic to it. It didn’t end the way anyone hoped or the way it felt destined to. For most of the year, it seemed like the baseball gods had chosen this team. But not all great stories end in triumph; some end in heartbreak. And for the 2025 Blue Jays, baseball’s cruel side showed up in the biggest moment.

But two things can be true at the same time: You can feel the hurt and pain that losing Game 7 of the World Series in extra innings gives you, but you can also appreciate the ride it took to get there. You don’t make it to the last game of the World Series by accident. Out of the 180 regular-season and postseason games the Blue Jays played this season, they won 104 of them, and within those victories, there were several moments of joy, happiness, and euphoria that the Blue Jays gave us. Before we all go back and look back at the heartbreak, here are five moments that defined the magic of the 2025 season.

5) Bo Bichette's HR vs TEX (05/28/2025)
You could argue this was the point where everything started for this team.

Coming into this game, the Blue Jays were 26-28, eight games back in the AL East, and the offence had suddenly gone incredibly cold. They had scored just four runs in the previous four games, including getting swept by the Tampa Bay Rays in their first visit to George M. Steinbrenner Field. This was the rubber match in Texas, and the Blue Jays still had yet to score a run through eight innings.

The good news is the Blue Jays were getting stellar pitching on that day; the combination of Paxton Schultz, Eric Lauer, Braydon Fisher and Brendon Little had held the Rangers to just one hit while striking out 12 through eight frames.

Cue up the top of the ninth. Ernie Clement leads off with a hard single to right field, a Nathan Lukes sac bunt followed, and then Alejandro Kirk came off the bench and flew out, putting the Blue Jays one out away, Bo Bichette, who wasn't in the lineup because of lower back soreness, came up to hit for Michael Stefanic, and on a 0-1 pitch did this:

From this point on, the Blue Jays found their offence again and proceeded to win 11 of their next 13 games, and the season was rolling from there.

4) Addison Barger/Bo Bichette Back-to-Back HRs vs ARI (06/17/2025)
At this point in the season, the Blue Jays were starting to find their way; they had cut the Yankees' AL East lead down to three games and were returning home after a long nine-game road trip that ended with them getting swept by the Phillies.

The Blue Jays got out to a 2-0 lead after three innings. A Vladimir Guerrero Jr. RBI double in the first opened the scoring, and he followed that up with a home run two innings later. Chris Bassitt started and ran into trouble the third time through the order, and after seven innings, the Diamondbacks were up 4-3.

Entering the bottom of the ninth, Davis Schneider struck out against Shelby Miller to start the inning. Things started to feel bleak, as the Blue Jays were quickly staring a fourth straight loss in the face. Then, Bo Bichette fell behind 1-2, got a splitter down and in, and sent it back out 399 feet to left-center field to tie the game.

Just five pitches later, with Rogers Center still buzzing, Addison Barger took a splitter in the zone and hit one 408 feet to complete the comeback, giving the Blue Jays yet another dramatic come-from-behind victory.

3) The Mason Fluharty Game vs LAD (08/10/2025)
In a game that would turn out to be a World Series preview, the Blue Jays found themselves in a battle with the Dodgers. After a historic sweep of the Rockies, in which the Jays scored 45 runs in three games, the team was dealing with its own Coors Field hangover. They had scored just two runs total in the first two games, but after Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Addison Barger went back-to-back in the eighth, they found themselves with a chance to salvage the rubber match of the series.

Jeff Hoffman came in with two outs in the bottom of the eighth with two men on. He clearly didn’t have his command that day, walking Will Smith and Freddie Freeman to force in the tying run before finally inducing a pop out to end the inning.

Ernie Clement then hit a lead-off homerun in the top of the ninth to restore the Blue Jays' one-run lead, and Hoffman was back out for the ninth. He proceeded to go, walk, walk, sac bunt, and yet another walk, and John Schneider was forced to make a move to try to salvage the game and avoid the sweep.

Enter Mason Fluharty, who at that time had not been having a good season. His ERA sat at 5.15, and he had previously been sent down to Buffalo due to poor performance. But the rookie was ready for the challenge.

First up was Shohei Ohtani, without a doubt one of the toughest outs in baseball, who had already homered in the game. Fluharty got him swinging on a sweeper out of the zone after a nine-pitch at-bat, for a massive second out.

Next up was another former MVP in Mookie Betts, and three pitches later, he had grounded out to third, and Fluharty had earned the first and (so far) only save of his big league career. He got the Blue Jays a much-needed win, and he and the Blue Jays escaped a West Coast road trip with a winning record.

2) Alejandro Kirk's Grand Slam in Game 162 vs TB (09/28/2025)
In terms of regular season hits, few were bigger than Kirk's on the final day. It was a game that, if the Blue Jays won, would secure them the American League East for just the second time in the 21st century, and most importantly, give them a first-round bye to the American League Division Series.

The Blue Jays made their statement quickly. After Kevin Gausman allowed a run early, the Blue Jays got the bats going, with four of their first five hitters reaching base. That set up Alejandro Kirk for a massive moment.

Kirk himself would add another homerun in this game, and the Blue Jays would soar to a 13-4 victory, ultimately winning the AL East for just the second time since 1993, and shortly after that, their historic run to the World Series was underway

1) George Springer’s Grand Slam on Canada Day (07/01/2025)
If you were to ask any Blue Jay fan what the biggest highlight of the regular season was, it wouldn't take that long before someone would mention George Springer's historic grand slam on Canada Day. At the time, the Blue Jays were rolling. They were coming off a 4-2 road trip through Cleveland and Boston and were set for a massive series against the (at the time) AL East-leading New York Yankees. After taking the opener of the series 3-2, the Blue Jays were set to face a sold-out, passionate crowd at Rogers Centre for one of the most anticipated dates on the baseball calendar.

The Blue Jays were down early, as the Yankees had a 2-0 lead. In the bottom of the fourth, the Jays got to Yankee ace Max Fried. Springer led off the inning with a solo home run, and six batters later, Andrés Giménez added a three-run shot of his own. The Yankees then tied the game in the top of the seventh. After an Ernie Clement RBI single, the stage was set for George Springer to have his moment:

From that point on, the Blue Jays didn’t look back. By the end of the series, the Blue Jays took the lead in the division and held onto it for the remainder of the season. This was game three of what would be a 10-game winning streak for the Blue Jays, and from that point on, the rest of baseball must have taken notice and realized this Blue Jays team was for real.

Honourable Mentions:

• Braydon Fisher's lockdown relief performance in extra innings (9/15/2025 vs TB)
• Jonatan Clase's game-tying home run in the ninth (06/09/2025 vs STL)
• Trey Yesavage's MLB debut (09/15/2025 vs TB)

No matter how this season ended, the 2025 Blue Jays gave fans across the country something to cheer about. The moments they created will live on, not just in Blue Jays franchise history, but in the history of households all across Canada.