At just about the worst time, Addison Barger made a fundamental blunder.

Standing on second base in the ninth inning Friday and representing the tying run in Game 6 of the World Series , the second-year player saw Andrés Giménez loft an 81-mph looper toward left field at Rogers Centre.

Barger thought the ball would find grass, aggressively moving about halfway toward third base.

But it hung up.

Barger, standing in no-man’s land, didn’t have enough time to retreat.

Double play.

Game over.

Game 7, Saturday night in Toronto.

“I was pretty surprised he got to it,” Barger said after the 3-1 loss to the Dodgers, per ESPN . “Off the bat, I thought it was going to go (right) over the shortstop’s head. I didn’t think it was going to travel that far.

“It was kind of a bad read.”

If the

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