TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays and Boston Red Sox game came to a halt halfway through the seventh inning on Monday, as the incorrect number of outs shown on the Rogers Centre scoreboard sent the game into chaos and the umpires into lengthy deliberation.The situation resulted in a 15-plus-minute delay, Boston’s first run of the contest and heavy booing from the home crowd.After two Red Sox singles to start the top of the seventh, Nick Sogard sent a line drive to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. at first base. The Jays slugger dove for the ball, caught it on a bounce and fired a throw to second to get the first out. The play, however, was recorded as a double play both on the stadium video board operated by MLB and by the official scorer’s announcement in the press box.
When, in the next at-bat, Boston’s Ceddanne Rafaela flied out to center, the Red Sox runners on first and third broke on contact as if there were two outs. Jays outfielder Brett Bateman caught the ball, and Toronto relayed it in to get the third out at first base.
The ENTIRE FIELD thought there were two outs (scoreboard even had it) 🤯
Umps have been deliberating for 15 minutes, but it seems the #RedSox might still get a run out of this? 🤷 ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/8xe7uvfnW9
