Nobody in the entire country wants to hear this, but that game-ending double play that forced a Game 7 between the Blue Jays and the Dodgers almost never got started. Article content

Kike Hernandez, the Dodgers left fielder who came charging in to snare that liner off the bat of Andres Gimenez and then doubled a wandering Addison Barger off second to end the game, admitted afterwards that he initially lost that ball in the lights. Article content Article content

There were 44,710 in the building wishing it had remained lost in the glare because if that ball got by Hernandez it was going all the way to the wall.

Worst case scenario the Jays tie the game with Barger, who had doubled and pinch runner Myles Straw in for Alejandro Kirk who had been hit by a pitch, scoring and Gimenez on

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