Vladimir Guerrero Jr. continued his torrid postseason on Sunday night as the Blue Jays fought off the Mariners to force a winner-take-all Game 7 against the Mariners. Guerrero's sixth-inning home run was his sixth of the playoffs and he carries a .462/.532/1.000 slash line into Monday night's action.
He had seemingly done it all for the Blue Jays in October when he stepped into the batters' box in the eighth inning so he had to get extremely creative to create something new. A broken-bat single on which his bat made contact with the ball three times certainly qualifies.
Here's the slow-motion replay of the oddity, which proves that when things are going well at the dish, everything seems to work.
This ball hit Vladdy Jr.'s bat THREE times 😯 pic.twitter.com/xId82hYjPP
— MLB (@MLB) October 20, 2025
For as rare as such an occurrence is, there is some late-October precedent. The Giants' Hunter Pence parlayed the trick into some wicked spin and a two-run single during Game 7 of the NLCS back in 2012.
Hunter Pence hitting THE SAME PITCH THREE TIMES ON ONE SWING during the 2012 NLCS is arguably the most Hunter Pence thing of all time pic.twitter.com/aljCb3OsFV
— Baseball Quotes (@BaseballQuotes1) September 26, 2020
What will Guerrero do for his next trick as he steps on to the biggest stage of his young career? That depends on how willing the Mariners are to pitch to him.
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