The Halloween night Game 6 between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers brought much debate and drama. Jays fans reacted to the team’s good fight against the Dodgers.
“I’m disappointed. They played well, they just needed those bats going tonight,” a Jays fan told Now Toronto following the game.
“Our Blue Jays gave it a good try. That was a tough night. We’ll be back tomorrow to take it down,” another Jays fan told Now.
“I got a lot of respect for the Blue Jays, man!!! What a series! What an epic fight for it all! There are no losers in this series, this series DESERVES a game 7!!” an X user wrote.
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Then came the dramatic ninth inning – one for the books.
Dodgers rookie Roki Sasaki was on the mound with the Jays’ Alejandro Kirk first up at bat. The 85km/h pitch came fast at Kirk’s left hand – forcing him to leave the game on a 0-2 count and Myles Straw to pinch run in his place.
A Roki Sasaki pitch hits Alejandro Kirk and Myles Straw comes in to run for him pic.twitter.com/SbOKDXdpjJ
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Fortunately, Kirk is reportedly okay, with X-Rays showing no fracture. He is expected to be in the field for Game 7.
Next up at bat – Addison Barger. It was the bottom of the ninth, 2-2 count. Barger’s deep fly ball wedged itself right in under the padding of the outfield wall. The Dodgers’ Justin Dean threw his hands up in the air, and the play came to a halt.
The ruling: a double.
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Two runners in scoring position with no outs in the 9th 👀 #WorldSeries pic.twitter.com/e5G6JRyN8M
“Growing up playing baseball I heard the [lodged ball] rule countless times. I saw the ball did not bounce back to me at all. I just trusted that that was going to be a call and luckily for me it was,” Dean told reporters in the locker room after the game.
Blue Jays Head Coach John Schneider says he’d never seen anything like it: “I haven’t seen a ball get lodged, ever. [Addison] put a really good swing on that pitch and ultimately ended up second and third with nobody out. … Just kinda didn’t bounce our way there.”
The Internet, however, was divided on the lodged-ness of the ball.
“That ball was not lodged in any way,” one X user wrote assuredly.
“Actually, the rule book tells you. Once the ball didn’t bounce off the fence, it was lodged. The umpire just confirms,” another wrote.
“It’s not lodged! That ball can be popped out with one finger,” another wrote.
Among those who did not contest the ball’s lodged-ness, some took issue with how Dean handled the ball. He had thrown it back into the field before the umpire had had a chance to review it.
“You learn in Little League if you try and get a ball that is lodged before it is ruled lodged, then the runners can continue to run. You are taught to throw your hands up until the umpire rules,” one X user wrote.
“I think the lodged ball is so controversial because of how Dean played it with his hands in the air like some loser trying to force a technicality and then immediately grabbing the ball and playing it making his whole song and dance even sillier,” another wrote.
Following that play, the Dodgers’ Tyler Glasnow stepped up to the mound. The game-ending play came with the Jays’ Andrés Giménez at bat. The Jays had put two men into scoring position with Ernie Clement out. Then a fastball from Glasnow, Barger straying too far from second, and the Dodgers’ Enrique Hernandez’s quick-thinking became a recipe for disaster.
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“I was being too aggressive trying to score. … [Hernandez] had a good read on the ball and made a good play,” Barger told the media after the game.
Many Jays fans were left unhappy with Barger’s aggressive move.
“An unprofessional at-bat by Ernie and a bad blunder by Barges on the bases, denying Springer a chance. They looked inexperienced in the biggest moment of their lives,” one Jays fan wrote.
“That’s a hypocritical statement by Barger. He makes great plays in the outfield himself. He should know better,” another called him out for his lack of judgement.
“I feel bad for the Jays. A dead ball and wrong base-running by Barger. They could have won,” an X user wrote.
The final score of Game 6 was 3-1, forcing a Game 7, set for tonight at 8 p.m. ET.
The Jays are looking to take the World Series Championship for the first time in 32 years.
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