The bases were loaded with the Orioles holding a one-run lead in the game’s middle innings and Jackson Holliday stepped up to the plate. His first game back at the MLB level started out like his previous ones had done, with Holliday rolling over a couple of ground balls to the right side. In the fifth inning, a called strike and a foul ball had him facing an 0-2 count against Blue Jays reliever Yerry Rodríguez.
In came a slider right to the middle of the plate and Holliday did not miss. It was one of those beautiful swings where you know right off the bat that it’s gone, before the camera angle even changes from the view of the batter at home plate to the ball soaring out of there.