TORONTO -- With one of the biggest, loudest innings of baseball we’ve seen this season in Toronto, the Blue Jays put all of their devils to bed.

Addison Barger ’s cold streak? Snapped. Jeff Hoffman ’s Tuesday meltdown? That’s old news again. The Blue Jays, flirting with an ugly night in a stretch that’s had a few too many, just hit their season with another lightning bolt.

Wednesday’s 9-8 win over the Twins at Rogers Centre just kept demanding Barger have a moment. Barger didn’t take the first few offers, no matter how many times the game begged it of him and how many runners he saw standing on those bases, but Barger has always been capable of splitting a game wide open in a single second. It finally came with a line-drive double off the right-field wall in the bottom of the eighth

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