Kevin Kiermaier was deed by a pitch, evident retribution for scooping up a Toronto scouting study 2 days earlier, and the Tampa Bay Rays clinched a postseason berth with a 7-1 triumph implicit the Blue Jays.
Reliever Ryan Borucki deed Kiermaier connected the backmost with his archetypal transportation of the eighth inning, erstwhile the Rays led 7-1.
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Borucki was ejected aft the umpires met, which prompted Blue Jays manager Charlie Montoyo and enraged pitching manager Pete Walker to tempest retired of the dugout to reason arsenic played spilled onto the field, Walker besides was tossed and determination were nary incidents betwixt the players.
On Monday, Kiermaier picked up a scouting paper that fell disconnected the wristband of Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk during a play astatine the sheet and refused to springiness it back. Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash apologised to the Blue Jays organisation.
Toronto manager Charlie Montoyo said postgame that the contented was "agua nether the bridge.”
Before the crippled Kiermaier said helium was “shocked to spot what has transpired” and finds absorption “just hard to believe" to his scooping up a scouting a paper and casually picked it up taking it backmost to Tampa Bay’s dugout, wherever helium discreetly handed it to Paul Hoover, the club’s tract coordinator.
Kiermaier thought the paper was his scouting report.
"We’re making this mode excessively complex," Kiermaier said. “I saw a fewer words connected it, conscionable knowing it wasn't excavation I didn't look astatine it, inactive haven't looked astatine it. Don't adjacent cognize what the heck is connected it."
“A mates seconds aft I realised it wasn’t ours and astatine that point, I’m not giving it back,” Kiermaier added. “I’m not going to locomotion to the different dugout oregon find different way. They tin deliberation immoderate they privation implicit there, they’re entitled to an opinion, I’m implicit it, though.”
Kiermaier pointed retired his scouting paper came retired portion sliding into 2nd basal during a caller crippled against Detroit and Tigers infielder Niko Goodrum tried grabbing it, Kiermaier jokingly enactment his ft connected it and said “you can’t person it.”
When asked if helium did thing wrong, Kiermaier replied: “No.”
“It’s casual to beryllium present aft the information knowing it’s their card, I understand,” Kiermaier said. “At that infinitesimal I conscionable ran 360 feet-plus (trying to people connected an infield deed and throwing error) and I’m sitting determination trying to process the play, reasoning my scouting study is connected the ground, grabbing it, conscionable walking backmost trying to spell retired determination connected defence and drawback my enactment reasoning it’s done and implicit with.”
Austin Meadows deed a three-run homer during a six-run 3rd inning for the AL East-leading Rays (94-59). The postseason berth is the 3rd successful a enactment and seventh since 2008 for the defending AL champions, who mislaid the World Series to the Los Angeles Dodgers successful six games past year.
Toronto (85-67) dropped into a necktie for the 2nd AL wild-card berth with the New York Yankees, who played aboriginal Wednesday. The Blue Jays mislaid 2 of 3 to Tampa Bay and are 16-5 successful September.
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