Have a night, Justin Smoak!

12:05 AM ET

Justin Smoak entered Tuesday night with a strange batting line, which is one of the amusing aspects of early season baseball: Crazy and meaningless statistics to distract us from more important issues like the Cubs’ run differential or the Yankees’ hopelessness. Anyway, Smoak was batting .225/.404/.250 in 52 plate appearances for the Toronto Blue Jays, with no home runs but 11 walks and 19 strikeouts. So he had walked or struck out in 58 percent of his trips to the plate. There’s a saying in baseball, “Three True Outcomes,” referring to when the batter walks, whiffs or hits a home runs. No fielders necessary. Well, Smoak was more like a member of the much more exclusive and less popular Two True Outcomes club.

Then he did this:

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— David Schoenfield (@dschoenfield) May 4, 2016

The game-tying home run came off Texas Rangers closer Shawn Tolleson, off a 1-2, 94-mph fastball. The walk-off home run — the first of Smoak’s career — came on a first-pitch fastball from Phil Klein and gave the Blue Jays the 3-1 victory, a much-needed lift for an offense struggling to score runs and a team that is now 13-15. The last time this exact scenario unfolded? Fourteen years ago:

The last player before Justin Smoak to hit a game-tying HR in the 9th and then a walk-off HR in the 10th was Joe Crede (CHW), 8/27/02 vs TOR

— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) May 4, …

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