Correctly predicting a home run is always impressive, but MLB Network analyst Dan Plesac took calling his shot to another level on Friday night.

Before the Blue Jays took Game 1 of the 2025 World Series with an 11-4 win over the Dodgers in Toronto, Plesac offered up a surprising choice as his “Homer Hunch”: Blue Jays slugger Addison Barger .

The left-handed hitting Barger, notably, was not in Toronto’s starting lineup against Dodgers southpaw Blake Snell. But that didn’t stop Plesac.

"I’m telling you what: He’s going to run into one, and the Rogers Centre is going to come unglued,” Plesac promised. “He’s going to get a pinch-hit at-bat in the seventh, eighth, or ninth inning, and he’s going to send this place into a frenzy.”

In fact, it was the sixth inning, with the bases loaded a

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