Wild play involving Bo Bichette may have cost Blue Jays

It was a bad call at the plate. Then it was a bad baserunning decision at first base. Then it cost the Blue Jays a run.

Game 3 of the World Series on Monday got off to a questionable start for the Blue Jays in the top of the second inning, when Bo Bichette was thrown out on a weird play at first base that you’ve definitely never seen before.

Here’s how it unfolded.

Daulton Varsho was at the plate and facing a 3-1 count. Tyler Glasnow, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ starting pitcher, threw a 96-m.p.h. sinker that appeared on the broadcast — and on MLB Gameday’s pitch tracker — to entirely miss the strike zone, and Varsho thought as much. He started making his way toward first base, assuming he had walked, before home plate umpire Mark Wegner called the pitch a strike.

Bo Bichette thought Da