Toronto Blue Jays play Game 5 under protest after controversial call

After taking two games in Arlington, the Blue Jays host the Texas Rangers in the fifth and deciding game of their American League Division Series at 4:07 pm.

Toronto Blue Jays fans celebrates in their seats prior to game one of the World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday, October 16, 1993 at Skydome in Toronto. Toronto fans proceeded to throw things onto the field and the team protested, but the run stood.

With the momentum squarely on their side, the Rangers continued to pile on the pressure in the second game as they won the war of attrition against the Blue Jays in a 6-4 win that took 14 innings to complete.

“It’s the most emotionally charged game that I’ve ever played”, Bautista said. He took ball two against Aaron Sanchez, running the count to 2-2.

The Rangers committed three errors to start the Blue Jays’ seventh. The dugouts emptied twice before the seventh ended, Rangers reliever Sam Dyson, likely angry over Bautista’s legendary bat flip, barking at Edwin Encarnacion as he tried to calm the crowd down to trigger the first time, the right-hander barking at Troy Tulowitzki after a foul pop up for the third out to trigger the second. Only Bill Mueller (98 at-bats without an RBI from 1997-2004) had a longer playoff drought. Odor advanced to third on two outs.

The ball is dead and no runner shall advance on the play.

Shin-Soo Choo added on another in the third, turning on an 0-1 heater and sending it over the wall in right, again silencing the crowd.

Toronto answered right back with Bautista’s sharply hit two-out double driving home Ben Revere, who got on board via an infield hit that nicked Hamels’ glove. First baseman Doug Ault hits a pair of home runs, and the expansion Blue Jays earn a 9-5 win over the Chicago White Sox.

Stroman finally notched 1-2-3 innings in the fourth, thanks to a spectacular play in centre field by Pillar who made like Usain Bolt then Greg Louganis in snagging Josh Hamilton’s shallow fly ball.

A seventh inning perhaps without peer in baseball history started on a play as freaky as they come, one that left a crew of veteran umpires and replay officials in New York struggling to untangle the mess.

Encarnacion tied it up with one swing in the bottom of the sixth, dropping the ball into the second deck in left field. Watching him pitch brings energy to the fans, brings energy to us.

“That was insane”, Blue Jays starter Marcus Stroman said. The five-foot-eight 180-pounder has a well-stocked arsenal that features a sinker, slider, curveball, changeup, cutter and four-seam fastball.

Marcus Stroman, who pitched seven innings in game 2, will start for the Jays, while Texas counters with Cole Hamels.

Once again, the roof was closed. And being that Game 5 is an elimination game, the creator argues that Toronto can use all the help it can get.

The petition, posted on Change.org on Tuesday, states that the Major League Baseball decides whether the roof should be open and the rules suggest that it should be kept closed if the temperature is less than 10 C or there is a high risk of rain.

The Blue Jays filed a protest.