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‘Baseball wedgie’: How padded outfield wall may have saved Dodgers season

Call it a “baseball wedgie” if you want. If you are a Toronto Blue Jays fan, call it a case of terrible luck at the worst possible time. If you are a Los Angeles Dodgers fan, you are probably calling it a season-saving play. While most of the attention from the Dodgers’ 3-1 Game 6 win will focus on the walk-off double play that ended the bottom of the ninth inning, it was actually a play two batters earlier that may have been the biggest game-changer.  Perhaps even a series-changer.  With the Blue Jays down by two runs, a runner on first and nobody out, Addison Barger stepped up to the plate and ripped a line drive off Roki Sasaki to the left-center field gap. Instead of taking a bounce off the ball, it perfectly struck at the base of the wall and stuck under the padding.  Dodgers center fielder Justin Dean immediately threw his arms in the air to indicate to the umpires that the ball was lodged under the wall. It cannot be overstated as to how important this play and call ended up being. If the ball does noRead More

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