The Los Angeles Dodgers forced a decisive Game 7 of the World Series with their 3-1 win over the Toronto Blue Jays in Friday's Game 6. The outcome was in doubt until the instant the game ended, and that's because of a bottom of the ninth that was as bizarre as it was tense.

To open the frame, Toronto catcher Alejandro Kirk reached when an 0-2 splitter got away from Dodgers relief ace Roki Sasaki and struck Kirk on the hand (X-rays were negative ). Next man up Addison Barger then scalded a double to the wall in left-center that likely would've scored the hasty Myles Straw, who was pinch-running for Kirk, had things unfolded in standard fashion. Things, though, did not unfold in standard fashion:

Barger's ringer immediately upon landing got stuck between the bottom of the wall and th

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