Major League Baseball Playoffs: Blue Jays, Royals on to ALCS after Game 5 wins

Oscar’s father, Benn Wood, says his boy took a little off his swing earlier in the game – and the Blue Jays’ right fielder hit a double. The tying run scored, but an out was recorded at second base.

Four years after twice being within one strike of a World Series title, Texas was ahead in the decisive Game 5 of the AL Division Series in Toronto after a unusual play in the top half of a almost hour-long seventh inning.

“It’s the most emotionally charged game that I’ve ever played”, Bautista said. “He throws hard with a sinker. I’m still not certain what happened, what was going on what the ruling is”, said Gibbons.

That game was more than two months ago.

The loss went to Texas ace Cole Hamels, who began the seventh inning but was pulled after Toronto tied the game at 3-3.

Division Series – Texas Rangers v Toronto Blue Jays – Game Five TORONTO, ON – OCTOBER 14: Delino DeShields #7 of the Texas Rangers reacts after the bat hit him in the jaw after attempting to bunt in the fifth inning against the Toronto Blue Jays in game five of the American League Division Series at Rogers Centre on October 14, 2015 in Toronto, Canada.

Toronto manager John Gibbons shocked Blue Jays fans when he used Price – his team’s prized trade-deadline acquisition – out of the bullpen to relieve R.A. Dickey with a six-run lead in Game 4 of the ALDS.

A postseason baseball game in which the benches clear on multiple occasions is pretty interesting – the kind of thing that gets a few extra attention on nightly highlight shows. According to Statcast™, the ball left Bautista’s bat at 106 miles per hour and travelled a projected 431 feet.

When the ball rolled down the third-base line, Roughned Odor scampered home to give the Rangers a 3-2 lead.

Toronto Blue Jays player Jose Bautista acknowledges the crowd after his home run to eventually win the game against the Texas Rangers on Wednesday night in the ALDS. I’d be celebrating if I were them, too.

“I understand the fans are upset”, Choo said.

Elsewhere, Cueto, who was acquired in a July 26 trade with the Cincinnati Reds, retired the final 19 batters he faced after third baseman Luis Valbuena hit a two-run homer in the second inning.

If a player wants to get exuberantly happy and do that in such a situation – I’m all for it. Baseball needs moments like this. He was in the box. Dyson made contact with Tulowitzki as he walked off, leading to another benches-clearing confrontation, with catcher Chris Gimenez shoving Tulowitski before the scrum was broken up. “I am thankful for my teammates for making this far”. Last night’s games, though locally painful and familiar-not including Wild Card games, the Rangers are 1-2, in post-season series-clinching finales, and the Astros are 1-3-would have rated as lowercase news but for the seventh inning at Rogers Centre (formerly known as the SkyDome) in Toronto, which will stand as one of the strangest runs of events in the annals.