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- Updated: May 28, 2016
TORONTO — After the Blue Jays fell to the Yankees last Tuesday, veteran knuckleballer R.A. Dickey mentioned the team needed a spark to get its season going, and Devon Travis has certainly provided that.
Travis played hero in Toronto’s 10-9 walk-off win over the Red Sox on Saturday, helping the Blue Jays clinch the series with an infield-single in the ninth off Boston closer Craig Kimbrel.
Out since July 28, 2015, after undergoing surgery to fuse an overgrown bone in his left shoulder, Travis made his season debut the day after Dickey’s comments, and the Blue Jays have picked up four straight wins en route to breaking above .500 at 26-25.
On Saturday, Travis admitted that he went into a bit of a survival mode in his at-bat against Kimbrel in the ninth. Despite still getting reacclimated with the game speed of the Major Leagues and the power arms that come with playing in the …
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