TORONTO - In a lot of ways, Addison Barger is your typical 25-year-old. He showed up to work earlier this week in a free T-shirt that he got four years ago and then slept on his buddy's pullout couch that night.

But Barger also smashed the first pinch-hit grand slam in World Series history on Friday to lead the Toronto Blue Jays past the Los Angeles Dodgers 11-4. That gave Toronto a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven Major League Baseball championship.

The shirt that Barger wore to media day on Thursday read "I Hit Balls Hard," and he got it while playing for the Blue Jays' single-A teams in Dunedin, Fla., and Vancouver.

"It was something that the hitting coaches gave out while I was in the minor leagues, I think, in 2021," said Barger at a post-game news conference. "So it was a free shirt.

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