Dodgers won't be able to stomach Blue Jays fans' complaints after Game 3 controversy

It took almost no time at all for home plate umpire Mark Wegner — the same umpire who called a crucial strike a ball on Cristopher Sánchez in Game 4 of the NLCS, which eventually allowed the Dodgers to take the series by a single run — to make a new enemy. This time, he won't have just the city of Philadelphia but the entire country of Canada absolutely enraged.

Tyler Glasnow was on the bump for the Dodgers in Game 3 of the World Series, and Wegner got a call wrong almost immediately. Glasnow's second pitch, a painted curveball to George Springer, was incorrectly called a ball.

Maybe Wegner thought he would do Glasnow a favor in the second inning. With Bo Bichette on first and Daulton Varsho at the plate, Glasnow threw a 3-1 sinker that stayed well above the zone. Varsho certainly thought it would get him first base, so he started down the line, but Wegner called it a strike to keep the at-bat going.

Bichette was evidently locked in a state of utter confusion and didn't move back to safety at first. Glasnow, who got his definitely-not-a-strike ball back from Smith, turned to throw to Freddie Freeman, who applied the tag on Bichette to get his first out of the inning.

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It was definitely the wrong call from Wegner, but both Varsho and Bichette got way ahead of themselves, and Bichette's base running blunder almost certainly cost the Blue Jays a run. Varsho ended up walking and Alejandro Kirk followed with a single that would have scored Bichette if he hadn't gotten himself thrown out.

If the Dodgers win this game, we can already hear the complaints from Blue Jays fans about the whole thing being rigged in favor of LA. Teoscar Hernández didn't help matters (well, for Blue Jays fans) when he gave the Dodgers a lead with a solo homer off of Max Scherzer, who was booed heartily by the crowd at Dodger Stadium during introductions and warmups.

That call was objectively incorrect and a gift for Glasnow, who got two outs after the Kirk single easily enough, but Bichette also clearly wasn't present enough to hustle back to the base with a lot of time to do so.