Eighteen days into the 2020 season, the Blue Jays finally played a home game. They beat the Marlins 5–4 in 10 innings. (The Jays batted second in two games at Nationals Park, but MLB has said it considers Tuesday’s game to be the home opener.)
In the chaos surrounding the COVID-19 outbreaks on the Marlins and then the Cardinals, it was easy to forget that the Blue Jays’ homelessness had once been the most dramatic element of pandemic baseball, but the road to Buffalo was potholed. After Canada all but evicted them from the Rogers Centre just before Opening Day, the team had scrambled to find accommodation.