The New York Yankees didn’t come all the way to Toronto to play it all safe. They are fresh off sweeping the Red Sox in the Wild Card round. They marched into Rogers Center with their eyes on the bigger prize—the World Series. The same records, the same hunger—the only difference is that the Jays have the tiebreaker, and now the Yankees have to take it from them.
Luis Gil from their side, Kevin Gausman throwing for the Toronto Blue Jays—it all felt like a heavyweight bout. But then boom, the drama just unravelled in the very first inning itself.
Trent Grisham steps up and makes contact, and it looks like the ball clips his foot before rolling fair. That should have been an easy foul call, right? Everyone saw it too. But the umps? Nope. They ruled it fair and sent Grisham packing with an