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TORONTO – Forty-five times there has been magic in the Toronto Blue Jays dugout.

Alejandro Kirk’s sacrifice fly in the ninth inning completed yet another Blue Jays comeback as Toronto stunned the Baltimore Orioles 5-4 on Saturday. The Blue Jays scored three in the ninth inning for their 45th comeback win of the season, the most in Major League Baseball.

It’s the fourth most come-from-behind victories in franchise history behind 1987 (50), 1983 (47), and 1984 (46). Saturday’s rally surpassed the 44 comebacks racked up by Toronto’s eventual 1993 World Series championship team.

“The energy, it’s unbelievable in the dugout, especially in those kind of moments,” said Kirk through translator Hector Lebron. “Everybody just paying attention to every base hit, every pitch. Everybody’s there supporting each other. It’s unbelievable.

“That’s one of the things that I really believe is helping us to win games.”

Addison Barger led off the fifth with a home run as Toronto (86-62) was trailing the Orioles 2-0. Kirk and fellow pinch-hitter Joey Loperfido had RBI singles in the eighth and ninth innings respectively to keep the Blue Jays within a run.

Light-hitting Andres Gimenez then singled to score Ernie Clement and tie the game 4-4. George Springer drew a walk in the next at bat to load the bases with one out.

Kirk connected on a 95.5 m.p.h. sinker, the second pitch he saw from Baltimore reliever Yennier Cano, popping 321 feet out to centre field and giving Loperfido time to score from third for Toronto’s ninth walk-off win of the season.

“I was excited, I was ready for the at bat, I was trying to put good contact on the ball,” said Kirk. “Knowing that even if I didn’t make contact I have (all-star first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr.) in that lineup behind me.”

The Blue Jays extended their win streak to three games as they try to clinch a post-season berth and then sew up the American League East pennant. Toronto currently has the best record in the AL, putting them in a position to get a bye in the first round of the playoffs.

Manager John Schneider said Toronto’s propensity for late comebacks can be tough to watch but exhilarating.

“Think it just says a lot about the character of the guys in the clubhouse, it kind of gets contagious a little bit,” said Schneider. “The offence late, man, it’s not great for my heart, it’s not great on my ticker, but it’s awesome to watch unfold.”

Max Scherzer went five innings for the Blue Jays, giving up two runs on four hits, striking out five. Tommy Nance, Eric Lauer, Seranthony Dominguez and Braydon Fisher followed Scherzer to the mound. Fisher picked up the win to improve to 6-0.

Scherzer threw 91 pitches in the outing and he said it was part of an agreed-upon plan with Schneider to try and let the 41-year-old surefire Hall of Famer rest before the post-season.

“We talked about how we should manage this one so that we’re really good for the next two to go into the playoffs,” said Scherzer. “That’s just where we are thinking and how we’re managing.”

The National League-leading Milwaukee Brewers became the first team to clinch a playoff berth later Saturday. Toronto’s win helped it stay three games ahead of the Yankees in the American League East after New York beat the Boston Red Sox 5-3 at Fenway Park.

Boston dropped to 5 1/2 games back of the Blue Jays with the loss.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 13, 2025.

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TORONTO – Alejandro Kirk’s sacrifice fly in the ninth inning completed yet another Blue Jays comeback as Toronto stunned the Baltimore Orioles 5-4 on Saturday.

The Blue Jays scored three in the ninth inning for their 45th comeback win of the season, the most in Major League Baseball.

Addison Barger led off the fifth with a home run as Toronto (85-63) extended its win streak to three games. Kirk and fellow pinch-hitter Joey Loperfido had RBI singles in the eighth and ninth innings respectively to keep the Blue Jays within a run.

Light-hitting Andres Gimenez singled to score Ernie Clement and tie the game 4-4, setting up Kirk’s heroics.

Gunnar Henderson had an RBI double and then Tyler O’Neill, from Maple Ridge, B.C., hit into a fielder’s choice to score another run for Baltimore (70-78) in the first. Samuel Bassalo doubled in another run in the eighth and Coby Mayo added a solo homer in the top of the ninth.

Orioles starter Tomoyuki Sugano allowed one run on four hits with four strikeouts over six innings. Relievers Rico Garcia, Kade Strowd, Keegan Akin and Yennier Cano followed hi to the mound.

Max Scherzer went five innings for the Blue Jays, giving up two runs on four hits, striking out five.

Tommy Nance, Eric Lauer, Seranthony Dominguez and Braydon Fisher followed Scherzer to the mound. Fisher picked up the win to improve to 6-0.

Takeaways

Orioles: Sugano has struggled this season, entering Saturday’s game with a 4.51 earned-run average. He was the model of efficiency against Toronto, however, only throwing 63 pitches. Baltimore manager Tony Mansolino made the surprising decision to pull him after six innings when the Orioles have a planned bullpen day on Sunday.

Blue Jays: A day after Toronto’s hitters looked sharp in a 6-1 victory, their offence sputtered. They had 12 hitters come to the plate for the first four innings, only getting traction in the fifth when Barger hit his 20th home run of the season.

Key moment

After Gimenez’s RBI single in the ninth, George Springer drew a walk to load the bases with one out. Kirk connected on a 95.5 m.p.h. sinker, the second pitch he saw from Cano, popping 321 feet out to centre field and giving Loperfido time to score from third.

Key stat

Scherzer, a surefire Hall of Famer, has allowed seven earned runs in the first inning of his last three starts for a 21.00 earned-run average.

Up next

Shane Bieber (2-1) get the start for Toronto in the series finale with Baltimore.

It’s expected the Orioles will have a bullpen day.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 13, 2025.

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There was a loud call for an end to gun violence in Toronto as a coalition of organizations came together for a march Saturday.

Organizers said the gathering was a chance to send a strong message to upper levels of government and communities to take action.

“To spread the message of awareness that things have gotten way out of control in the city,” said Marcell Wilson, the founder of One by One Movement.

The rally comes one month after the death of JahVai Roy, eight, who was struck and killed by a stray bullet while sleeping in his bed in his North York apartment.

His mother, Holly Roy, says she’s making sure her voice is heard — for him.

“I’m still very numb, I miss my son and this is why we’re here today,” she said.

“They’re taking our loved ones … and we need to come together because this shouldn’t happen to anybody.”

Toronto police announced just days ago the arrest of a 16-year-old suspect, who has been charged with first-degree murder and five firearms offences.

Two other suspects — a 17-year-old and an 18-year-old, who was 17 at the time of the shooting — remain at large and are wanted for first-degree murder.

Wilson says violence has been on the rise, and the ages of those involved are getting younger.

“It’s trending as far as extreme violence being committed by younger and younger people, and JahVai was the youngest member of my organization, so it hits deeper for us,” he said.

As the rally marched from Nathan Phillips Square to Queens Park, participants urged communities and policymakers to acknowledge the problem.

“If we don’t mobilize now, it’s just going to continue to get worse,” said Rita Asare, the executive director of the Black Action Defense Committee.

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Canada advanced to the 2026 Davis Cup Qualifiers after taking a 3-0 lead over Israel in a best-of-five tie played in an empty Halifax stadium amid protests.

Liam Draxl of Newmarket, Ont., and Cleeve Harper of Calgary came back from a set down to defeat Jordan Hasson and Ofek Shimanov 5-7, 6-0, 6-4 in Saturday’s first match.

Singles wins by Draxl and Montreal’s Gabriel Diallo on Friday meant the doubles victory sealed Canada’s advancement out of the World Group 1 stage and into next year’s qualifiers for the main Davis Cup tournament.

With victory assured, Canada elected to replace world No. 35 Diallo with Harper for a singles match with Orel Kimhi. Draxl was scheduled to cap the tie with a match against Daniel Cukierman.

Tennis Canada made the call earlier this week to hold the matches without spectators or media present, citing safety concerns it said were flagged by local authorities and security agencies.

About 400 demonstrators opposing Israel’s actions in Gaza and the West Bank held peaceful protests during Friday’s matches.

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A two-vehicle crash in Cape Breton Friday killed two people and sent one to hospital with serious injuries.

The Cape Breton Regional police force says officers arrived at the crash site in New Victoria shortly before 7 p.m.

A news release says they found one vehicle on the road and another flipped over in a ditch, both with substantial damage.

Bystanders and fire crews were helping the occupants of both vehicles.

Police say a 74-year-old woman was pronounced dead at a the scene and a 26-year-old man was taken to hospital, where he died.

A third person, who was a passenger in one of the vehicles, was taken to the local hospital in serious condition and later airlifted to Halifax.

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A spokesperson for Universal Ostrich Farms says the farm will ask the Supreme Court of Canada to stop the culling of 400 ostriches hit by avian flu, but it is not clear yet whether Canada’s highest court will hear the case.

Katie Pasitney says the farm remains hopeful that it will get another chance to make its case, after Federal Court of Appeal Justice Gerald Heckman ruled Friday the cull of the animals must be allowed to proceed.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency had first ordered the slaughter on Dec. 31, 2024, during an outbreak of H5N1 avian flu that killed 69 ostriches.

The farm has been fighting the cull order for months, but lost its case in both Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal, and now faces what Pasitney has called an “open cull order” following this latest ruling.

Speaking Saturday morning, Pasitney says about 20 people are currently gathered outside the farm in Edgewood, B.C. to await future developments.

Pasitney says the farm plans to file its application to the Supreme Court “immediately,” but Heckman has also said in his ruling that the farm has failed to establish reasonably arguable grounds for further appeal.

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Polish and allied aircraft were deployed in a “preventive” operation in Poland’s airspace Saturday because of a threat of drone strikes in neighboring areas of Ukraine, and the airport in the eastern Polish city of Lublin was closed, authorities said.

The alert lasted around two hours. It came after multiple Russian drones crossed into Poland on Wednesday, prompting NATO to send fighter jets to shoot them down and underlining long-held concerns about the expansion of Russia’s more than three-year war in Ukraine.

The Polish military’s operational command posted on X on Saturday afternoon that ground-based air defense and reconnaissance systems were on high alert. It stressed that “these actions are preventive in nature,” and were aimed at securing Poland’s airspace and protecting the country’s citizens. It cited a threat of drone strikes in regions of Ukraine bordering Poland, but didn’t give further details.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk also posted that “preventive air operations” had begun in Polish airspace because of the threat posed by Russian drones operating over nearby areas of Ukraine. The Polish Air Navigation Services Agency said that Lublin Airport was closed to air traffic “due to military aviation activities,” and the government security center warned of a threat of air attack for several border counties in the region.

Later Saturday, the military’s operational command wrote on X that the operation “has been completed” and that ground-based defense and reconnaissance systems had returned to normal.

Russia has said it didn’t target Poland on Wednesday, and Moscow’s ally, Belarus, said that the drones went astray because they were jammed. But European leaders have expressed certainty that the incursions were a deliberate provocation by Russia.

Polish aircraft have been scrambled repeatedly in recent months to patrol the country’s airspace in connection with Russian airstrikes in Ukraine, but those strikes have usually occurred overnight or in the early morning.

Separately, Romania said it deployed two F-16 jets to intercept a drone that briefly entered its airspace on Saturday afternoon.

“The drone did not fly over inhabited areas and did not represent an imminent danger to the security of the population,” the NATO member’s defense ministry said in a statement.

The ministry said that teams of specialists would conduct searches for potential debris. Romanian authorities didn’t specify where they thought the drone originated from.

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The Federal Aviation Administration is seeking $3.1 million in fines from Boeing over safety violations, including ones related to an Alaska Airlines jetliner losing a door plug panel on its fuselage in midflight.

The proposed penalty is for safety violations that occurred from September 2023 through February 2024, the FAA said Friday.

That period includes the January 2024 blowout of a paneled-over exit door — called a door plug —- on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 shortly after it took off from Portland, Oregon.

None of the 171 passengers or six crew members on the flight were seriously injured. Pilots landed the plane safely back at the airport.

In June, the National Transportation Safety Board said its 17-month long investigation found that lapses in Boeing’s manufacturing and safety oversight, combined with ineffective inspections and audits by the FAA, led to the door plug blowout.

The FAA said Friday that it identified hundreds of quality system violations at Boeing’s 737 factory in Renton, Washington, and Boeing subcontractor Spirit AeroSystems’ 737 factory in Wichita, Kansas.

Among other violations, the regulator also found that a Boeing employee pressured a member of Boeing’s ODA unit, which is tasked with performing certain inspections and certifications on the FAA’s behalf, to sign off on a 737 Max airplane “so that Boeing could meet its delivery schedule, even though the ODA member determined the aircraft did not comply with applicable standards.”

Arlington, Virginia-based Boeing has 30 days to respond to the FAA.

In a statement Saturday, Boeing said it is reviewing the agency’s proposed civil penalty, noting that the company put in place a safety and quality plan last year, under FAA oversight, that aims to enhance safety management and quality assurance in its airplane production.

“We regret the January 2024 door-plug accident and continue to work on strengthening our safety culture and improving first-time quality and accountability across our operations,” the company said.

The Max version of Boeing’s bestselling 737 airplane has been the source of persistent troubles for the company since two of the jets crashed, one in Indonesia in 2018 and another in Ethiopia in 2019, killing a combined 346 people.

The Justice Department reached a deal in May allowing Boeing to avoid criminal prosecution for allegedly misleading U.S. regulators about the Max before the two crashes.

Boeing was also in the news in June when a 787 flown by Air India crashed shortly after takeoff and killed at least 270 people. Investigators have not determined what caused that crash, but so far they have not found any flaws with the model, which has a strong safety record.

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When Mélanie Poitras found out her daughter’s school was engulfed in fire, she got behind the wheel of her car and rushed over right away to see it with her own eyes.

“There were so many people, it was a little dangerous because some were trying to film while driving,” said the mother, who spent hours Friday night watching firefighters put out the flames. “There were four fire trucks spraying water non-stop.”

About 400 students at Val-des-Monts in the Laurentians are now without an elementary school, after flames consumed the building just before 8 p.m. According to the town’s mayor, no one was injured.

Poitras’ says her 11-year-old daughter is devastated. Her special needs class there is made up of just 10 students.

“She loves her school,” she said. “We’re all very close, it was like a little family.”

Laptops the students use and new instruments just purchased for their music class were all loss in the blaze, the mother said.

She stayed watching the scene unfold until 11:30 p.m., but said she returned again around 4 a.m., after not being able to sleep. By then, the building was still in the process of being demolished piece by piece. Some embers still remained that had to be put out as well.

According to the union representing the town’s fire department, about 80 firefighters from a number of surrounding municipalities came together to put out the flames.

Poitras said the school informed her that there won’t be a place for the kids to go on Monday, but what’s to come for the coming days, and months, is still uncertain, she says. The school board has also yet to make an announcement.

Paul Germain, the mayor of the town, said it’s a loss that feels personal to many.

“It was the first major school to be built in Prévost in 1960, so there’s many locals who went there,” he said. “Their children went there, and in some cases, their grandchildren did too.”

He says he’s committed to seeing the school rebuilt as quickly as possible. A fundraiser has also been launched to help support the families of the children, who he says desperately need new school supplies.

“Currently, the commitment we’ve made is that for every dollar donated, the city will match it by two, up to maximum of $50,000,” he said, adding that target was surpassed within hours of being announced.

In a post on social media, Sonia Bélanger, the Quebec minister responsible for the region, said a crisis team has since been created to determine what will happen next for the students and staff there.

Quebec’s new Education Minister Sonia LeBel said the students are also top of mind for her right now.

“I want to thank all the firefighter that fought to put out the flames,” she wrote in a post on social media, adding an action plan is underway to respond as soon as possible.

The local fire department could not immediately be reached to say what could have caused the fire.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 13, 2025.

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