If the Blue Jays can’t top the Dodgers at home Saturday night, Addison Barger’s baserunning mistake will forever be Toronto „What ifs?“
At just about the worst time, Addison Barger made a fundamental blunder.
Standing on second base in the ninth inning Friday and representing the tying run in Game 6 of the World Series, the second-year player saw Andrés Giménez loft an 81-mph looper toward left field at Rogers Centre.
Barger thought the ball would find grass, aggressively moving about halfway toward third base.
But it hung up.
Barger, standing in no-man’s land, didn’t have enough time to retreat.
Double play.
Game over.
Game 7, Saturday night in Toronto.
“I was pretty surprised he got to it,” Barger said after the 3-1 loss to the Dodgers, per ESPN. “Off the bat, I thought it was going to go (right) over the shortstop’s head. I didn’t think it was going to travel that far.
“It was kind of a bad read.”
If the Blue Jays can’t top the Dodgers at home Saturday night, Barger’s baserunning mistake and the bad-luck ruling moments before on his double that got stuck under the wall will forever be Toronto “What ifs?”
Trailing, 3-1, in the ninth with a man on first and no outs, Barger hit a ball into the left-center gap that got stuck under the wall, resulting in a ground rule double.
