Before games, when they’re strategizing for an opponent, Toronto Blue Jays manager John Schneider and his coaches will map out a few different scenarios to anticipate how that night’s game could unfold.

There’s plan A, in which everything goes as intended, plan B, where some adjustments are required, and so on. The meetings are designed to prepare the coaches and their players for what’s ahead — even if adjustments are inevitably required.

Sometimes they’ll even joke about scenarios that are objectively unlikely to occur — because you never know.

“Like, hey, what are you going to do if the guy’s got a no-hitter?” Schneider might say. “This organization’s due for one.”

On Sunday afternoon, that very scenario — the A-1 plan that’s so unlikely it’s almost a joke — unfolded at Rogers Centr

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