fielder Junior Felix had separated his shoulder against the right-field wall the previous day in Yankee Stadium. After a slow start (6-for-40 in his first 10 games), Mookie Wilson came alive when he returned to Boston for the first time since the 1986 World Series. Mookie went 9-for-14 with four runs scored and an RBI in the Jays' three-game sweep at Fenway Park. From there, they travelled to Baltimore to face the first place Orioles. Mookie Wilson hit his first home run as an American Leaguer, as the Jays took two out of three from their division rivals. In all, he batted .432 over the rest of the month to help his new team jump into a first place tie with the Baltimore Orioles in the American League East. On September 1, Mookie Wilson went three for four with a run and an RBI against a trio of Minnesota Twins pitchers to help the Jays attain sole possession of first place. On September 30, with the Jays trailing 3–1 to the Orioles, Mookie Wilson singled in a run, and eventually came around to score the winning run in the Jays' division clinching game. The Jays returned to the postseason for the first time since 1985, but were handily defeated by the heavily favored AL champion Oakland Athletics in the 1989 American League Championship Series, four games to one. Mookie Wilson went two for four with an RBI and run scored in the Jays' game three victory. After the season, Mookie Wilson signed a two-year deal to stay with the Jays as their starting center fielder. He logged 629 plate appearances in , his most since . At 34 years old, Mookie Wilson still stole 23 bases and hit four triples. He relinquished the starting center field job to Devon White in , and was part of a revolving door of left fielders employed by manager Cito Gaston. The system worked, as the Jays won their division by seven games over the Red Sox. In the postseason for the fourth time in six years, Mookie Wilson appeared in three of the five 1991 American League Championship Series games. He went two for eight with a walk. The option was not picked up on his contract after the season. He nearly signed with the Red Sox for the season, but the Sox chose to go with Herm Winningham instead. When no one