TORONTO — Alejandro Kirk became the third central character to rejoin the Toronto Blue Jays plot this week and immediately showed how important he is to the trajectory of their story. 

The all-star catcher, back from a broken thumb suffered in the team’s seventh game of the season, successfully challenged the first pitch of the game to get Trey Yesavage a strike, doubled in the bottom half of the first to open the scoring, added two more hits including an RBI single in the fifth and guided his pitching staff through a number of tricky spots. 

His fingerprints were all over Friday night’s 8-5 win over the New York Yankees, underlining how much he and fellow injured list returnees Dylan Cease and Max Scherzer can help shift the Blue Jays’ narrative.

Now, the trio can’t write a turnaround on their own, but the way they can help the club function as it should was evident. 

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