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Comparison Essay: The Texas Rangers And Toronto Blue Jays

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The Texas Rangers and Toronto Blue Jays had a remarkable playoff game for Major League Baseball that all came down to the bizarre seventh inning. This game was a very important one, deciding which team would move on from their Division Series. It was the fifth game in the series of best out of five games with each team having won two games. The Rangers got ahead at first with a very odd and controversial play, but the Blue Jays came back with an incredible hit. This strange seventh inning may simply be known now as just “the Inning”. The score was tied 2-2 going into the seventh inning and Texas was batting first. They had a runner at third with two outs when the Toronto catcher, after catching a pitch, ricocheted the return

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