Alejandro Kirk, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. match Blue Jays legends with playoff home run exploits​on October 4, 2025 at 11:23 pm

New York hit 83 more home runs than Toronto this season, but the Jays flipped the script on the Bronx Bombers to open the American League Division Series on Saturday at Rogers Centre.

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Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Alejandro Kirk, who later hit another, both hit their first playoff home runs as Blue Jays on Saturday joining an interesting list.

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It was only the fourth time the Jays hit three or more home runs in a post-season game and first since the record four in 2016 against Texas.

George Bell, one of only two Jays to win an MVP award, only hit one dinger for the club, same with his longtime partners in the outfield Jesse Barfield, a one-time league home run champion, and Lloyd Moseby.

Fellow 1980s Jays Ernie Whitt and Rance Mulliniks both also hit one, as did more recent Jays Ryan Goins, Ezequiel Carrera and B.J. Upton.

Canadian Michael Saunders only hit one career post-season blast and it came with the Blue Jays. Countryman Russell Martin hit six, but only one while with Toronto.

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Ed Sprague made his one blast count, helping turn the 1992 World Series.

Joe Carter and Jose Bautista share the team record of six playoff home runs, though Bautista did it in nine fewer games.

Guerrero’s blast was his first in seven post-season games.

His next one will tie him with Jays luminaries like Roberto Alomar, Devon White, Dave Winfield, Kelly Gruber, Pat Borders, Teoscar Hernandez, Kevin Pillar and more, and with his father, who also hit two non-regular season home runs.

Kirk joined that list first.

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Guerrero worked on some mechanical adjustments at the plate during the downtime between the end of the regular season and the start of this series, per manager John Schneider. It appears to have paid off. Guerrero also lined a single in his second at-bat Saturday.

Meanwhile, Kirk, who had busted out of a severe slump with a two-homer, one-double, six RBI game after homering the prior game, to propel Toronto to the division crown nearly a week ago, kept at it Saturday with his no-doubt blast early and an even more obvious shot over the wall in left in the eighth inning.

If Kirk connects on another, he’ll tie Paul Molitor, Troy Tulowitzki and Candy Maldonado, trailing only Bautista, Carter, Josh Donaldson and Edwin Encarnacion on the Blue Jays’ list.

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