Inexplicable umpiring mistake takes Blue Jays run off the board in World Series Game 3

It didn't take long for the controversy to start in Game 3 of the 2025 World Series. With the Toronto Blue Jays and the LA Dodgers both looking to take the lead in a 1-1 series, the Blue Jays first good chance to score a run was snatched away from them thanks to an awful call at the plate by home plate umpire Mark Wegner.

Inexplicable umpiring mistake takes Blue Jays run off the board in World Series Game 3

After a scoreless first inning the Blue Jays were hoping to get the jump on Dodgers righty Tyler Glasnow. Bo Bichette led off the second with a single into centerfield and things started to look good as Daulton Varsho stepped up to the plate.

Varsho got himself into a 3-1 count against Glasnow and on the fifth pitch of the at-bat, Glasnow threw a sinker, that didn't sink and stayed several inches above the strike zone. Varsho started to take his base, but then Wegner decided, incredibly late, that it was actually a strike.

Confusion ensued and both Bichette and Varsho didn't realize the pitch had been called a strike. Bichette then strayed off the first base bag, and all of a sudden was caught in no-mans land and the Dodgers picked him off for the first out of the inning.

On one hand, you can blame Bichette for not reading the play and assuming what the play was, and we all know what happens when we assume things don't we. On the other hand, the call from umpire Wegner wasn't clear on a pitch that was no where close to the strike zone, and was in fact higher than the previous pitch.

To make matters worse, Varsho walked a few pitches later and then reached third on an Alejandro Kirk single. That single by Kirk would have scored Bichette from second and given the Blue Jays an early 1-0 lead. Instead, Glasnow got out of the inning without giving up a run by striking out Addison Barger and getting Ernie Clement to line out to centre field.

And then, just to add insult to injury, former Blue Jay Teoscar Hernandez hit a solo home run to lead off the bottom of the second against Max Scherzer. A tough break for the Blue Jays early in a crucial Game 3 of the World Series.