Mischief charge laid after beer spray hits baby during Blue Jays game

Now, after both the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros had their bids to flip playoff scripts foiled by the favorites, there will be no Friday night lights on in Arlington.

“The highly unfortunate reactions of a group of fans at Rogers Centre in Wednesday’s game represented a major source of concern”, the league said in a statement Thursday.

Toronto police said the baby was sitting in the front row with her mother at the Rogers Centre on Wednesday when the can flew over their heads.

By the top of the seventh inning, the Jays had clawed back to tie the game at two.

The game was tied 2-2 when Toronto catcher Russell Martin threw a ball toward the pitcher’s mound.

Fans littered the field with objects during the delay as umpires sorted out a play that is certain to rank up there with Derek Jeter’s Jeffrey Maier homer in 1996 or Reggie Jackson’s hip block of a throw in the 1978 World Series as one of the craziest in the postseason. Believe it or not, yes.

This makes you think: Can the Blue Jays be stopped?

“That was insane”, Blue Jays starter Marcus Stroman said. “You’d hate for that to be a difference-maker in a game of this magnitude”. Adrian Beltre fielded the ball and threw to third, but Andrus dropped the ball for his second error of the inning, loading the bases for Ben Revere. These weren’t tough bounces: they were easy, routine, everyday baseball plays, bumbled by a Rangers team that suddenly seemed spooked.

That home run and bat flip was so emphatic that it’s already become a part of baseball lore. Watch it again and again and again.

After the post-game celebrations, the night’s hero, Joey Bats, took to social media to thank fans in Toronto and across Canada.

Bautista doesn’t seem willing to engage in a war of words with Dyson.

For the Rangers and their fans, the pain is real, it is brutal and it is piling up. They finally broke out last season, winning the ALCS and losing 4-3 to San Francisco in the World Series. They finished second in the AL East in 1984 and entered the 1985 season with lofty expectations.

And they’ll be monitoring the crowd when the Jays play at home for Game 3 on Monday.

Meanwhile, their intra-state rivals to the east are dealing with a boring ache that won’t disappear anytime soon. “I don’t know if it’s going to be an issue”, Yost said.

Royals manager Ned Yost was one word more succinct: “Absolutely”.

“He’s been known to hit dramatic home runs and there ain’t a better time”, Gibbons said. “Obviously, that series in Toronto (earlier this year) was two competitive teams”.

“That one inning in a set of three games will not define our season”, first-year manager Jeff Banister declared.