All the Best Tweets About Last Night’s Insane Blue Jays Play

Considering the way the Jays’ season has started out so far, we wouldn’t blame you if you’d already checked out by the seventh inning of a random early season Tuesday night game against the Cardinals. But if that’s the case, you just missed the play of the day. The week. The month. Or even the year. I’ll be there for youuuu… Sorry, where were we? Oh right, the play.

Pillar crushed a triple to right, Chris Coghlan rounded third, and by all accounts, looked like he was going to be gunned out by a mile at home. Then? Well, the journeyman outfielder simply defied the laws of physics and went full Willie Mays Hayes over Cards catcher Yadier Molina for the go-ahead run. Cue the sound of jaws and GIFs) dropping across the baseball world.

Here’s a few of our favourite reactions – and overreactions – to the play that will forever go down in Jays lore as the franchise’s second-most famous flip.

But first, let’s see it again. (And again. And again.)

Co-sign:

(Just as was foretold in Major League II, Coghlan’s leap clearly means the down-on-their-luck Jays are set to rip off an epic return to the playoffs to spite their cheapskate owners.)

Move over, Pillar:

You too, Bautista:

So congratulations Coghlan, you just earned yourself a spot in highlight reels for decades to come.

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