With the Toronto Blue Jays leading 4-0 in the bottom of the third inning on Tuesday night against the Tampa Bay Rays, controversy struck.
With two runners on, on the eighth pitch of an at-bat between José Berríos and Brandon Lowe, the Rays second baseman lifted a 2-2 changeup deep to the right-field wall, where a fan reached out and caught the ball over the top of a leaping Nathan Lukes.
The Blue Jays immediately asked for a crew chief review on the play, thinking that the fan may have reached into play to make the grab.
MLB defines spectator interference as the following:
In every case of spectator interference with a batted or thrown ball, the ball shall be declared dead and the baserunners can be placed where the umpire determines they would have been without the interference. When