TORONTO — For an instant, the sellout crowd at Rogers Centre fell silent. They felt sure that Andrés Giménez’s liner was about to fall. In the visitors’ dugout, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts feared it was about to fall. In the home dugout, Blue Jays second baseman Isiah Kiner-Falefa knew it was about to fall.
But in that fraction of a second, as 44,710 people held their breath, left fielder Kiké Hernández heard something: Tyler Glasnow had broken Giménez’s bat. Hernández was already playing shallow—with one out, runners on second and third and a two-run lead, he wanted to be able to hold the batter-runner at first and the runner at second at third on a single. But now he knew that the ball was hit more softly than it looked. He sprinted toward it.
