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53 Minutes of Madness in Toronto: An Oral History of the ALDS Inning That Broke Baseball
53 Minutes of Madness in Toronto: An Oral History of the ALDS Inning That Broke Baseball
On October 14, 2015, the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Texas Rangers 6-3 in the fifth and final game of their American League Division Series. But Toronto’s win came at a steep cost to the sport, as the game’s senseless seventh inning pulled back baseball’s logical outer layer to expose the fetus fields and Langoliers below. For years, most participants have considered the inning too painful to talk about, but time has smoothed some of its emotional edges. Recently, we asked a few of the principals to delve into their pasts to explain the game’s troubling legacy.
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On the surface, the inning that ended a sport started innocently enough.
John Gibbons (Blue Jays manager): The signs were there, but we didn’t see them. Go back and look at the first pitch of the inning: 98-mile-per-hour sinker from Sanchez, on the black, and Odor took it. It was exactly where Martin wanted it. One of the best receivers in baseball, and his glove barely budged. But the ball popped out. The ball popped out.
53 Minutes of Madness in Toronto: An Oral History of the ALDS Inning That Broke Baseball
On October 14, 2015, the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Texas Rangers 6-3 in the fifth and final game of their American League Division Series. But Toronto’s win came at a steep cost to the sport, as the game’s senseless seventh inning pulled back baseball’s logical outer layer to expose the fetus fields and Langoliers below. For years, most participants have considered the inning too painful to talk about, but time has smoothed some of its emotional edges. Recently, we asked a few of the principals to delve into their pasts to explain the game’s troubling legacy.
♦♦♦
On the surface, the inning that ended a sport started innocently enough.
John Gibbons (Blue Jays manager): The signs were there, but we didn’t see them. Go back and look at the first pitch of the inning: 98-mile-per-hour sinker from Sanchez, on the black, and Odor took it. It was exactly where Martin wanted it. One of the best receivers in baseball, and his glove barely budged. But the ball popped out. The ball popped out.
