There is no picture more descriptive of this great and still stunning Blue Jays season than the photo of the unusually shaped catcher named Alejandro Kirk.

He doesn’t look much like a professional athlete. He’s not very tall. He’s not very trim. He doesn’t run particularly well. He’s not at all natural.

But now he’s a figure for the baseball ages in Toronto. At the top of any list with the greatest of Blue Jays performances. His home runs Sunday afternoon didn’t win the World Series the way the Joe Carter blast did 32 years ago. His home runs didn’t come with any kind of bat flip, the way the still-famous Jose Bautista did in 2015.

Maybe he should have flipped the bat after the second homer, which restored the Jays’ four-run cushion in the fifth inning against the Tampa Bay Rays, but th

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