The Toronto Blue Jays are off to the American League Championship Series after a wild win over the Texas Rangers.
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Kansas City Royals fan Lee Sung-woo, from South Korea, shows off a World Series towel before Game 1 of baseball’s World Series between the Kansas City Royals and the San Francisco Giants Tuesday, October 21, 2014, in Kansas City, Mo.
Sportsnet remembered that, “Thirty years ago, less two days, the Blue Jays played the only other winner-take-all game in franchise history, and they wound up on the wrong end of a historic collapse, blowing a three-games-to-one lead in a best-of-seven against the Kansas City Royals”. Texas made three consecutive errors to load the bases with nobody out.
After Sam Dyson relieved Hamels, Donaldson tied it at 3-3 with a flare just beyond the reach of Odor at second, but Revere was forced out.
Toronto police say a man has been charged with mischief after a baby was hit by the spray of a thrown beer can at Wednesday’s Blue Jays game. “He throws hard with a sinker”.
“I told him Jose needs to calm that down”, Dyson said of his comments to Blue Jays designated hitter Edwin Encarnacionin the next at-bat after Bautista’s blast, a confrontation thatcleared the benches in the seventh inning of Toronto’s 6-3 win. He even flipped his bat once after drawing a walk. Toronto would play the rest of the game under protest, but Bautista’s second home run of the series erased any chance of more complaints from the Blue Jays and their fans. “All the boys on my team, they always get to pitch first and usually the girls pitch last, I’ve actually been up, last season, five times, which is pretty good for a girl like me”.
“He said nice beard, bro”, the young fan said with a smile. Rios is batting. 286 with a couple RBIs through five ALDS games for Kansas City, Bautista has hit two homers and driven in five runs through five post-season games with the Jays and Encarnacion has a. 333 post-season batting average with three RBIs. “It’s never happened in my life before”. “I gave us the lead in a crucial moment so I was happy to do that”. He was in the box. “I felt it. I did it. I’m just glad I was able to hit the heck out of the ball”. Jose, the hero. My college teammate picking me up right there.
After lengthy discussion, following a reported three errors by the Texas Rangers in the one inning, the original call stood. “He’s got it out of here”, he said when asked what he was thinking when Bautista scored. The throw came home and pinch runner Dalton Pompey’s slide kicked out the leg of Texas catcher Chris Gimenez.
The seventh in Toronto joins a laundry list of horrific innings suffered through by Rangers fans.
The bullpen edge belongs to the Royals, who also possess more speed on the bases, and both teams play superior defense. According to Statcast™, the exit velocity off Bautista’s bat was 113.36 miles per hour.
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This was Choo’s second postseason appearance. They jumped out of the dugout after every run and their sudden brashness came out with every playoff win.
