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Dodgers, Blue Jays benches clear after Justin Wrobleski hits Andrés Giménez
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MLB Drama escalated in the fourth inning between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays . All after Andres Gimenez got hit by a pitch from Dodgers reliever Justin Wrobleski in Game 7 of the World Series. He entered the game for starting pitcher Shohei Ohtani , but fired a pitch that hit Gimenez's elbow.
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A clearly angered Gimenez stared down the pitcher and put his arms in the air. The two exchanged words including Wrobleski saying expletives , but then both dugouts and bullpens cleared.
MLB Umpires issued warnings on both sides per USA Today baseball columnist Bob Nightengale. Play eventually resumed, but it became the most tense moment of what's become a competitive series.
Dodgers-Blue Jays has been rather calm World Series for MLB fans
Tensions haven't boiled between both teams in this series.
There's been a lack of trash talk or banter from either or side. Even the lengthy 18-inning contest of Game 3 didn't see emotions spill into a brawl.
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But obviously tense moments can occur when a WS stretches to a seventh and deciding game.
Wrobleski came after Gimenez with a four-seam fastball that topped at 96 mph. The Blue Jays slugger had already faced four of those same style of pitches and an 87 mph slider. But the fast one got both sides, including managers Dave Roberts and John Schneider , to sprint onto the field.
George Springer eventually went to the plate after the scuffle eased. He smacked a single toward left field that placed Gimenez at second. Toronto never reached home plate, though, as Wrobleski struck out Nathan Lukes and lined out Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
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