Ranking the 5 most unlikely Blue Jays accomplishments in 2025 so far

With a successful, bounce back 2025 MLB campaign to date, the Toronto Blue Jays have exceeded expectations. Various individuals including the savvy veterans, the elite superstars, or even the key role players, have all in one way or another made significant contributions to the club to help pave the way to their success thus far.

But on top of that, the Blue Jays have also managed to achieve some unlikely accomplishments along the way that has made their year that much more intriguing and exciting.

Ranking the 5 most unlikely Blue Jays accomplishments in 2025 so far

#5 Braydon Fisher and his scoreless streak

After spending six seasons in the minor leagues, the Los Angeles Dodgers fourth round pick in 2018, finally made his MLB debut with Toronto this season. He made quite the first impression with the team after getting the call in early May. Fisher held the opposition scoreless in his first seven appearances, and ultimately 21 of his first 22 overall.

In doing so, he became one of the Jays’ most dominant relievers out of the bullpen this season, compiling a solid 3.03 ERA, 1.01 WHIP, along with a whopping 50 strikeouts in just 38 2/3 innings pitched over 41 games played. Fisher was sent back down to the minors due to the unfortunate numbers game, but should likely be back with the club as early as September 1 to continue his great work with the Jays.

#4 Positional players pitching in the same game

It has become more common that when a game is approaching blowout proportions, the losing team would opt to utilize one of their positional players to pitch to help preserve the bullpen arms for another day. However, to have BOTH the winning and losing team doing that in the same game is quite the rarity. But the Blue Jays and the Texas Rangers managed to accomplish that feat when former Jay Rowdy Tellez (now with the Rangers) and current Jays’ catcher Tyler Heineman did so in a game at the Rogers Centre on August 16 in a game the Blue Jays won 14-2.

Tellez would pitch two innings, giving up three earned runs on five hits with zero walks and strikeouts while Heineman did better, yielding just one run on one hit to close out the ballgame for the Jays. Just for good laughs, Tellez also managed to plunk former teammate George Springer with a nasty 66 mph heater to cap it off.

#3 Mason Fluharty doing the improbable in shutting down two potential future Hall of Famers for his first career save

Talk about having that everlasting moment in your life in a key situation of a ballgame. Jays reliever Mason Fluharty received that distinguished opportunity when he was brought into the contest against the Dodgers on August 10 with the bases loaded to face former MVPs Shohei Ohtani and Mookie Betts back-to-back with the game on the line.

Fluharty would go on to strike out the best player on the planet while inducing Betts to ground out to end the game and register his first career MLB save in dramatic fashion while making history in the process.

#2 Power-hitting Myles Straw and his two-homer game

Throughout his professional baseball career, whether in the minors or the majors, Myles Straw never had a year in which he registered more than four home runs in a single season. In fact, if looking at it in a per at-bat basis, Straw practically hits a home run once in every 200 at-bats at the major league level and once in every 251 at-bats overall.

So for the 30-year-old veteran to belt not one but two home runs in the same game in BACK-TO-BACK at-bats against the Rangers on August 16 for his first multi-homer game of his entire career was as close to impossible as it gets. Most significantly, they weren’t cheap long balls that just made it over the fence either.

#1 Speedster Alejandro Kirk and his first ever MLB stolen base

Finally, of all the accomplishments on this list, nothing beats the one Jays’ catcher Alejandro Kirk managed on August 15 also against the Rangers. Kirk has already been a revelation for Toronto this season, but what he did that day was perhaps icing on the cake.

In the midst of a huge comeback by the Blue Jays in the bottom of the eighth inning, he did the unthinkable by stealing his first ever base of his MLB career. Albeit it was likely a hit-and-run play with Straw striking out on a foul tip at the plate. But Kirk’s surprising move likely caught Rangers’ catcher Kyle Higashioka off guard, as he totally did not except the Jays’ catcher to take off on the play.

As a result, he ploughed into second base without a throw and drew a standing ovation from the Toronto crowd in the process for perhaps the once-in-a-lifetime feat.