Drat!.....Close, maybe tonight, heck of a pitching match, the Japanese pitcher won it, outstanding technique, a modern classic, great series, clean................mostly....odd way to end it, man were the base runners hauling it home, but the ball got stuck between the outfield wall and the ground, ground rule double, or the game would have been tied, bad luck jays, maybe tonight...
TORONTO -- They’ve seen a Game 6 ball sail skyward in the bottom of the ninth in this building. They’ve seen a comeback that results in Toronto title triumph.
But unlike the Joe Carter blast that cleared the wall for the Blue Jays back in 1993, the ball that could have altered the outcome of Game 6 on Friday night instead lodged at the wall’s base.
This ball was ruled dead.
And now the Dodgers -- and the World Series itself -- are still alive.
Game 7 at Rogers Centre looms Saturday night after a great Game 6 with a highly unusual ending. Though the Blue Jays mounted a comeback attempt in their last at-bat, the dead-ball call on Addison Barger’s ground-rule double helped thwart it, a double play in which Barger got caught off the second-base bag ended it, and the Dodgers held on for a tension-packed, 3-1 victory at Rogers Centre.
And so this wonderful World Series, which has already seen the evenly matched Dodgers and Blue Jays torment each other in an 18-inning affair, will conclude with the first Game 7 in the Fall Classic since 2019 (Nationals over Astros).
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