The Los Angeles Dodgers, facing elimination in Game 6 of the World Series, instead survived to force a Game 7 Saturday at Rogers Centre in Toronto. But it took a bizarre umpires' ruling to do it, a ruling that apparently did not violate the major league rule book, even if it did defy common sense.

The Toronto Blue Jays did not help their own cause after the ruling, allowing Dodgers righty Tyler Glasnow, making only his second relief appearance since 2018, to escape the bottom of the ninth with his first career save by getting three outs on just three pitches.

But the two abysmal at-bats by Ernie Clement and Andrés Giménez -- the Blue Jays' eighth and ninth hitters in the batting order -- as well as stunning baserunning blunder by No. 7 hitter Addison Barger may never have happened if

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