The Toronto Blue Jays have been one of the best teams in baseball since returning from All-Star break and after climbing into a commanding lead in first place in the AL East, they seemingly are only going to get better over the final stretch of the regular season.

Springer was hit by a pitch in the top of the first inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates, perhaps as restitution for the two teams' bench-clearing incident on Monday. Instead of escalating the situation, Springer simply waited a couple of innings, then launched a home run off pitcher Mitch Keller his next time up.