Blue Jays-Red Sox game thrown into chaos by 17-minute 'rules check,' massive scoreboard mistake

Everything seems to beryllium going close for the Boston Red Sox.

OK, not everything, arsenic they person present mislaid 3 games successful a row, but not earlier going connected an insane agelong that saw them triumph 32 of their erstwhile 37 games.

After losing their last 2 games against the Athletics implicit the weekend, the Sox traveled to Toronto to instrumentality connected the lowly Blue Jays, wherever they recovered themselves trailing 2-1 successful the seventh inning with runners connected the corners and 1 out.

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Umpires stitchery to reappraisal a play during the seventh inning of the MLB crippled betwixt the Toronto Blue Jays and the Boston Red Sox astatine Rogers Centre successful Toronto, Ont., connected Aug. 10, 2026. (Cole Burston/Getty Images)

Yet connected a alert shot to halfway field, some runners took disconnected due to the fact that they believed determination were 2 outs. Taking vantage of the situation, the Jays turned a treble play to extremity the inning. However, chaos, including a 17-minute delay, ensued erstwhile a tally was really awarded to the Sox contempt the costly mistake.

Center fielder Brett Bateman made the drawback and threw the shot into the infield. Once the shot was thrown to archetypal earlier Nick Sogard could return, the inning appeared to beryllium over. However, a chaotic MLB regularisation states that since the runner was retired astatine archetypal aft Anthony Siegler crossed location plate, and the Blue Jays did not entreaty Siegler arsenic the "fourth out," the tally scored.

It turns retired Siegler and Sogard had a justifiable crushed to judge determination were 2 outs due to the fact that the main scoreboard astatine Rogers Centre really showed 2 outs.

"We benignant of got a interruption there," Red Sox interim manager Chad Tracy admitted.

Wilyer Abreu, Garrett Whitlock and Bullpen Catcher Charlie Madden respond during a 15-minute rules cheque successful the seventh inning against the Toronto Blue Jays connected Aug. 10, 2026, astatine Rogers Centre successful Toronto, Ontario. (Maddie Malhotra/Getty Images)

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Blue Jays manager John Schneider, though, claimed that his squad was ne'er fixed the accidental to entreaty astatine third, due to the fact that sheet umpire Charlie Ramos "waved disconnected the run."

"After consulting with MLB, they told maine that each of my players were crossed the 3rd basal enactment earlier Charlie waved disconnected the run, which I 100% disagree with," Schneider said. "I don’t cognize if [Vladimir Guerrero Jr.] is that accelerated aft helium got the shot astatine first."

"We felt similar it was our work to close the mistake for not scoring the tally originally," unit main Chris Guccione said aft the game.

"The regularisation is the rule. ... So if the tally scores from third, nary substance what helium did tagging up, oregon not, earlier the retired is recorded astatine first, the tally counts," Schneider said. "Now, if we had conscionable thrown the shot to 3rd alternatively of first, evidently antithetic story."

Umpires explicate a regularisation reappraisal to Toronto Blue Jays manager John Schneider during the seventh inning of an MLB crippled against the Boston Red Sox astatine Rogers Centre connected Aug. 10, 2026, successful Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Cole Burston/Getty Images)

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Despite the fortunate break, the Sox's red-hot discourtesy was stalled, arsenic they mislaid a 3rd consecutive crippled for the archetypal clip since June 16-18.

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