CHICAGO -- For six innings, the Blue Jays looked stuck.
Then Daulton Varsho reminded them -- and everyone else -- what they had been missing.
Playing in his first game since returning from the injured list, Varsho launched a three-run homer in the seventh inning to ignite Toronto's comeback before Kazuma Okamoto delivered the decisive blow an inning later, lifting the Blue Jays to an 8-6 victory over the Cubs on Saturday afternoon at Wrigley Field.
The win snapped Toronto's offensive drought in emphatic fashion after the club managed just two runs during Friday's 16-2 loss and spent much of Saturday afternoon searching for any sign of life offensively.
Instead, the Blue Jays erased a 5-0 deficit with eight unanswered runs over the span of two innings.
After Colin Rea held Toronto hitless through four innings and Chicago carried a shutout into the seventh, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. singled and Okamoto was hit by a pitch to set the table for Varsho. The center fielder, activated from the IL before the game, crushed a three-run homer to right field to cut the deficit to 5-3 and suddenly give the Blue Jays a pulse.
An inning later, they completed the turnaround.
Myles Straw opened the eighth with a walk before George Springer singled. Alejandro Kirk, pinch-hitting for Nathan Lukes, delivered an RBI single to make it 5-4, and Guerrero followed with a game-tying hit to center field. Just moments later, Okamoto got a 2-1 fastball and launched it into the left-field bleachers, turning a tie game into an 8-5 Toronto lead.
In an instant, a game that felt over had completely flipped.
Varsho supplied the jolt. Okamoto supplied the knockout punch. And after looking lifeless for much of the first two games of this series, the Blue Jays suddenly left Wrigley with a comeback victory that felt impossible only a few innings earlier.