[Déjà Bru]

Besides the FF home run, of course, this was the turning point of the game:

A bad call cost the Blue Jays

We cannot say for sure this cost the Blue Jays a run, but it was certainly a bad and costly call by home plate umpire Mark Wegner. His delayed strike call on an elevated 3-1 fastball led to Bo Bichette wandering too far off first base -- he assumed it was a walk because the pitch was high and Wegner's call was delayed -- and getting picked off for the first out of the second inning.

https://x.com/MLB/status/19829689998...ghts%2Flive%2F

"Very delayed call. Pretty deliberate," Blue Jays manager John Schneider said during an in-game interview. "(Wegner) just didn't say anything, so Varsh assumed it was a ball and Bo assumed."

The batter, Daulton Varsho, did eventually draw the walk, then the next batter, Alejandro Kirk, singled to put runners on the corners with one out. Bichette is not running well because of his knee injury, but the walk would have moved him to second base, and it is conceivable he would have scored on Kirk's single. Instead, Toronto did not score in the inning.

We can't assume the inning would have played out exactly the same way had Wegner made the correct call and Varsho walked, but clearly it was costly. At minimum, it gave Tyler Glasnow a free out and saved him some pitches. At worst, it sabotaged a potential big inning and cost Toronto at least one run. The Dodgers caught a break.