By Gus "Walk-Off" Fields
Baseball has a way of stopping cold in the middle of everything, and Monday night in Toronto it stopped for 16 minutes.
A chaotic, inning-ending double play triggered the delay during the Red Sox's 2-1 loss to the Blue Jays, according to ESPN. The stoppage led to a belated Boston run being credited after the review process played out — a strange coda to a game the Red Sox still lost.
Details of exactly what officials were reviewing, and why it took the better part of a commercial break and then some to sort out, weren't spelled out in the available reporting. But anyone who's sat through a long replay review knows the feeling: the crowd murmuring, players standing around the bases like they're waiting for a bus, and a scoreboard that won't update until someone in a headset says so.
In the end, Boston got its run, but not the win. A 2-1 final is the kind of score that makes every delay, every pause, every review feel bigger than it probably was — because in a one-run game, everything is bigger than it probably was.
The Red Sox and Blue Jays will look to move past the sixteen minutes and get back to the business of playing nine uninterrupted innings, something that, on this night at least, proved harder than it sounds.
This account is based on a single ESPN report; further details on the specific play under review were not available at press time.
— Compiled from reporting by ESPN.
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