Turns out the weird and dumb plays the Toronto Blue Jays are all too familiar with from Tropicana Field came over to George M. Steinbrenner Field along with the Tampa Bay Rays.

Brandon Lowe’s bizarre three-run homer – which stood despite a ruling of spectator interference on the play – certainly qualifies as very familiar, house-of-horror stuff. We’ll get to the unpalatable word-salad explanation necessary to understand the call in a bit.

First things first though, the third-inning ruling changed the dynamics of what was shaping up as a comfortable Tuesday night for the Blue Jays and starter Jose Berrios, cutting into what was a 4-0 lead. No matter, as Nathan Lukes, who might otherwise have caught the Lowe drive, responded the next inning with a replay-ruling homer of his own to restore

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