One pitch; one swing; one win.
With lefty Hyun-Jin Ryu getting the start for Toronto on Saturday, Kevin Kiermaier started the evening on the bench, but as any Rays player in 2020 knows, that certainly doesn’t mean you have the full day off.
As the game stretched into extras for the second straight night, KK still hadn’t left the bench, but when his number was called with one out and runners on first and third in the bottom of the tenth, Kiermaier was fresh as a daisy, connecting on the very first pitch he saw, drilling a liner the opposite way to deliver a walk-off win to the Rays, bringing them back up to eight games over .