Pillar: Blue Jays’ high-stakes stretch run will help them in playoffs

St. Michael SS’s 2025 ROPSSAA Baseball Championship should inspire the Blue Jays in their pennant and playoff run

By Jim Stewart As the Toronto Blue Jays went through this past week’s dry spell of bad luck, bad calls, and bad hitting, the prospects for an AL East Division title seemed dimmer.  It felt like 1987 all over again– when the Jays lost Ernie Whitt and their last seven games, ceded the AL East title to the hard-charging Detroit Tigers and missed the playoffs. In an eerie coincidence in 2025, the Jays lost Bo Bichette and started losing games with s…

Pillar: Blue Jays’ high-stakes stretch run will help them in playoffs

Former Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Kevin Pillar joins Jays Talk Plus to share some of his memories from the Blue Jays’ playoff runs in 2015 and 2016, and why he thinks that the Jays having to battle for the division crown will serve them well.