Daulton Varsho grand slam just evoked an incredible week in Blue Jays history

Daulton Varsho's walk-off grand slam in the bottom of the tenth inning on Wednesday was a moment the Toronto Blue Jays had been waiting for seemingly all season. An exclamation point to end what had been a frustrating home series against their division rivals, the Tampa Bay Rays.

While walk-off aren't an every day occurrence they happen often enough that every team will likely have a couple of them in any given season. The Blue Jays had nine in 2025, although only one of them was a walk-off him run. That came courtesy of Addison Barger, when he hit a solo shot to win the game on June 17, against the Diamondbacks.

But the walk-off grand slam, however, is incredibly rare, so much so that Varsho's slam was only the fifth one in Blue Jays' history. The last one came by a guy who managed to have one of the craziest weeks of his career with the Blue Jays, and that was Steve Pearce. Out of the four walk-off grand slams in Blue Jays history before Wednesday, Pearce had two of them, and they came in the same week.

Steve Pearce's two walk-off grand slams in a week might never be topped by another Blue Jays hitter

Former AL MVP George Bell was the first Blue Jay to accomplish the feat, hitting a walk-off home run on Sept. 4 1988 against the Texas Rangers. Catcher Gregg Zaun hit his almost twenty years later to the date of Bell's grand slam. Zaun helped the Blue Jays walk off the Rays on Sept. 6, 2008. Then nothing happened for another nine years, until the week that Pearce decided to make history.

On July 27, 2017, the Blue Jays, were hosting the Oakland Athletics and trailed 4-3 in the ninth. Kendrys Morales (who hit a walk-off home run the night before) hit a solo home run to tie the game and send it to extras. In the tenth, Pearce stepped to the plate with Miguel Montero, Justin Smoak and Morales on base and two outs. It's the scenario every kid dreams about while playing in their back yard. Pearce took the pitch and hooked it down the left field line, sending into the second deck and sending the Rogers Centre crowd into a frenzy.

That was already historic enough as the Morales and Pearce combo was the first time in franchise history in which the Blue Jays won back-to-back games by hitting walk-off home runs. But that history was only just beginning. Three days later, it was Pearce coming through again.

Toronto trailed 10-4 going into the ninth in this game. They rallied to make it 10-7, before Pearce stepped up to the plate once again with the bases loaded, this time with only one down. On a 2-0 pitch, Pearce once again sent a ball to deep left field that cleared the wall and sent the fans home happy.

That finished off a wild weekend for Pearce in which he only got two other hits but managed to drive in eight runs in four games. It certainly has to be one of Pearce's career highlights. Although he did play in the majors for 13 years and was the 2018 World Series MVP with the Boston Red Sox. Regardless, these two moments coming so close together and being the deciding factor of a game certainly won't be forgotten in Blue Jays history.

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