September is still a ways off, as is baseball’s most important month, October. But we’re deep enough in the season to see them both.

And with that in mind, the mere prospect of what the Blue Jays bats did late on what turned to be a spellbinding late Sunday afternoon at Dodger Stadium has to be cause for some salivation for this never-quit group.

It was a 5-4 Blue Jays win, loaded with flaws as it was, that in the end was defined by the grit and perseverance that has propelled the team to what is now a 69-50 record.

That it concluded with yet an unlikely hero in a season loaded with them — a pitcher saving the day against one of the greatest hitters of all time — only added to the magnificence of the moment for the Jays, who avoided a sweep at the hand of the World Series champs.

That

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