The Blue Jays were in the postseason for the first time since winning the World Series in 1993. The Blue Jays threatened in the ninth inning and had a chance to even take the lead but closer Wade Davis shut it down and sent his team to the championship. Game 6 of the ALCS against the Royals in Kansas City. The broadcaster flashed a graphic during the seventh inning that pre-emptively advertised the Royals playing the Mets on Tuesday in Game 1 of the World Series. Then the rain came down, and we now sit in a rain delay heading to the bottom of the eighth inning. The call stood and the Yankees went on to win the series. Revere made a leaping grab at the fence to rob Salvador Perez of a two-run shot to left, and second baseman Ryan Goins made a sliding grab to rob Alex Gordon of a single.
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The Blue Jays went down fighting on a stormy night in Kansas City.
The Royals won a World Series in 1985, when they topped the Saint Louis Cardinals four games to three.
The Blue Jays couldn’t win their sixth straight elimination game.
They booed when he caught fly balls in right field, and when he hit two fly balls for outs, and especially when he hit a ball deep into the left-field seats in the fourth inning for the Blue Jays’ first run.
Bautista, who hit one halfway to St. Louis in the fourth off Yordano Ventura, fell behind 0-and-1 before driving a fastball down the leftfield line just fair for his fourth homer of the postseason and a 3-3 tie. That was the new Yost at work – Davis would be ready if Revere reached and the trio of Donaldson, Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion loomed to come up as the tying run. In the second game of the series, Price pitched beautifully, but in a pivotal seventh inning, defensive miscues behind him, and a spate of singles, turned a likely Toronto win into a crushing loss. Two batters later, Rios extended the margin to two runs with his RBI single.
But if Bautista looks back on his season in a couple of weeks, he’ll see a few elite offensive numbers: 40 home runs, a. 913 OPS and an American League-best 110 walks during the regular season.
Eric Hosmer singled in the bottom of the eighth, and Lorenzo Cain scored the go-ahead run from first base as the throw from right field came in to second. Waiting in the wings is career minor-leaguer Matt Hague, who was named the 2015 most valuable player of the triple-A Independent League.
Ventura was working from the stretch to keep in rhythm, and his approach appeared to be working. He threw 20 pitches in the first inning, with 17 strikes. Price, the ace Toronto acquired at the trade deadline so they could hand him the ball with their season on the line, allowed three runs over 6 2/3 innings and surrendered homers to Moustakas and Ben Zobrist.
The long ball by Moustakas, his first of this postseason, was snagged at the top of the right-field wall by Caleb Humphreys, a 19-year-old fan from Blue Springs, Missouri. The umpires reviewed the play but determined there was not enough evidence to rule fan interference.
As a result, the Royals kept the run.
Solo home runs from Ben Zobrist and Mike Moustakas in the first and second innings of the game put Kansas City out front in the early going.
Next month, Josh Donaldson will probably win the American League MVP, but it has been Jose Bautista who has carried the Toronto Blue Jays throughout the postseason.
All through the post-season, Blue Jays left-hander David Price remained confident that he would deliver on the big stage.
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The hottest hitter in baseball was 10 yards from home plate, watching helplessly as the best reliever in the game ended his season.
