Furious baseball fans think that MLB “rigged” the Toronto Blue Jays-Boston Red Sox game on Tuesday night to help out the New York Yankees, following two controversial calls against George Springer.
The Blue Jays entered Tuesday’s action with a two-game lead on the Yankees for first in the AL East, but it’s essentially a three-game lead with Toronto holding the head-to-head tiebreaker.
Toronto lost 4-1 to the visiting Red Sox, while the Yankees rallied with two runs in the ninth inning to beat the Chicago White Sox 4-3. Thus, the Jays’ lead in the division is down to just two games.
George Springer was the center of two questionable calls by the umpires in the bottom half of the second inning. The Jays were trailing 1-0 and had the bases loaded with two outs and their top hitter at the p