The first pitch in the third game of the Jays’ American League showdown against the Kansas City Royals is scheduled for 8 p.m. ET on Monday, 90 minutes before the polls close to end an election campaign that’s been nearly as enthralling to Canada’s political junkies as the Jays post-season run has been to their sports fans. They should get that kid tickets to the American League Championship Series so he can continue to help them crush home runs.
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During Game 5, Bautista earned the most mentions of any Toronto player, with over 180,000 tweets about him. A game that seemed bound to be remembered in the worst possible way for crowd-deflating replays, managerial jawing and beer cans tossed onto the field by angry idiot fans.
People were suddenly jumping up and down with completely uninhibited joy – and those were just the players in the Blue Jays dugout, those cool, detached guns-for-hire who channelled their inner and outer fan even more zealously than the 50,000 bystanders who paid to have their emotions toyed with at the most extreme levels of the sport.
The Blue Jays filed a protest after an umpire review ruled Rougned Odor was allowed to cross home plate. The Blue Jays open the AlCS with Marcus Estrada on the mound Friday.
“The highly unfortunate reactions of a group of fans at Rogers Centre in Wednesday’s game represented a major source of concern”, MLB said in a statement Thursday.
After Edwin Encarnacion tied it 2-all with a second-deck drive off tough-luck loser Cole Hamels in the sixth, Odor led off the seventh with a single and went to third on a sacrifice and groundout. The feud boiled over in the eighth inning, when Toronto reliever Aaron Sanchez was ejected for hitting Kansas City’s Alcides Escobar with a pitch. The run gave the Rangers a 3-2 lead. Eric Hosmer and Ben Zobrist also drove in runs, and Kendrys Morales capped the festive night with a three-run homer off Dallas Keuchel in the eighth to put it away.
“It’s just one of those moments, and it created an opportunity for us to do something special”.
“I was mixing up two rules”, Scott said. “I went, ‘Wait a minute, wait a minute, there’s no intent on the hitter.’ If there’s no intent, if he’s not out of the box, that throw is live”.
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If the batter interferes with the catcher’s throw to retire a runner by stepping out of the batter’s box, interference shall be called on the batter under Official Baseball Rule 6.03(a)(3) (former OBR 6.06(c)).
