In an industry as vast as baseball, longtime manager Buck Showalter doesn’t think Game 6 of the World Series should’ve experienced a moment like it did in the ninth inning Friday — when Addison Barger’s ball veered toward and eventually got wedged under the left-center field wall.

That allowed Dodgers outfielder Justin Dean to raise both of his hands up, signaling that the ball was unplayable. The umpiring crew called — and then confirmed — the play was a ground-rule double.

That forced Myles Straw, on first base, to only advance to third instead of trying to score, which would’ve allowed the Blue Jays to trim their deficit to 3-2 against Los Angeles at Rogers Centre.

"We got a multi-billion dollar industry. Why can't we get fields where stuff [padding] goes all the way to the bottom,

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