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MLB broadcaster's unbelievable Toronto Blue Jays prediction actually came true

Trevor Beggs
Trevor Beggs
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Oct 25 2025, 6:56 pm
MLB broadcaster's unbelievable Toronto Blue Jays prediction actually came true
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It was the grand slam of World Series predictions.

During the MLB Network’s pregame show before the Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers played Game 1 of the World Series, broadcaster Dan Plesac made an extraordinary prediction that actually came true.

“Addison Barger, not in the starting lineup, he will come off the bench, and be a left-hander off the bench, I’m telling you what, he’s gonna run into one and the Rogers Centre is gonna come unglued.”

“He’s gonna get a pinch hit at-bat, in the seventh, eighth, or ninth inning, and he’s gonna send this place into a frenzy.”

It was a prediction that even shocked his co-host, Greg Amsinger, at the time.

Amsinger was even more flabbergasted when Plesac’s prediction actually came true.

Barger delivered on Plesac’s bold prediction, albeit one inning earlier. The 25-year-old stepped up to the plate a drilled the first pinch-hit grand slam in World Series history over the wall in right centre-field.

And, exactly like Plesac predicted, Rogers Centre became unglued.

“That was a feeling I’ve never felt before,” Bo Bichette told reporters when asked about Barger’s big moment.

Up in the broadcast booth, Amsinger and Plesac both went crazy after the insane prediction became a reality.

“He wasn’t even in the lineup!” Amslinger exclaimed.

“Dan Plesac’s a genius!”

After the Blue Jays’ monstrous 11-4 win over the Dodgers, Plesac thanked Barger on social media for making his prediction come true.

Plesac spent 18 years pitching in the MLB, spending five of those seasons with the Blue Jays across two stints between 1997 and 2002.

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