Blue Jays manager extremely vocal about another controversial play

Another day, another controversy in Toronto Blue Jays land. Outside of the Blue Jays actually clinching a postseason spot, their last week and a half has been highlighted by some extraordinarily questionable calls by umpires.

It started in their game last Tuesday against the Tampa Bay Rays when a fan reached over the wall, made contact with Nathan Lukes and caught the ball before bringing it over to their side of the fence. After a review the official call on the field was, "It was fan interference but it would have been a home run anyway."

Then on Sunday, in Kansas City, Daulton Varsho made a terrific diving catch on a ball in centerfield, but the umpires determined the Blue Jays centerfielder had trapped the ball. Upon review it was clear Varsho had caught the ball, but the ruling on the field stood as a no-catch.

While the Blue Jays ended up winning both of those games, a controversial call in last night's (Tuesday's) game against the Boston Red Sox didn't go their way and Manager John Schneider was not happy about the outcome.

Blue Jays manager extremely vocal about another controversial play

"It was a fair ball down the third base line. I thought it was fair. Even on the replay I thought it was fair, but it's not a reviewable play. It sucks, that's two runs there and it's a 2-1 game. I don't know if it's why we lost, things can change over the course of a game. It's a border line call on a really good hitter," says Schneider.

"But that play is tough, when it's in front of the bag it is not reviewable, I asked (home plate umpire Doug Eddings) if he saw anything different and he said no, so it wasn't even worth getting the crew together. But from my vantage point and George's (Springer) and from the replays that we do have, it should have been a two-run double."

From the video below the ball very clearly bounces in fair territory, before then going over the bag and into foul territory.

What makes the sequence even worse was that Springer was then rung up on a pitch outside of the zone to end the inning and strand the bases loaded and the Blue Jays would go on to lose 4-1. It's a frustrating event for Blue Jays fans, players and management to have to suffer through when the margin for error is so thin at this time of year.

Maybe Schneider's words get the Blue Jays players fired up for round two against the Red Sox when they host them again on Wednesday evening with Toronto's division lead now down to just a single game (plus the tiebreaker) over the Yankees in the AL East.