From his spot behind third base, Luis Rivera saw everything.
The chopping hit by Russell Martin. The slide by Edwin Encarnacion. The daring run home by Josh Donaldson.
“It was all him,” the Blue Jays coach said. “It was all Josh.
“That’s winning baseball. Winning a game without hitting a home run. Doing the little things. Edwin ran hard to second base. We broke up the double play. And Donaldson read the ball and dirt and just took off. That’s his call, not mine.”
His winning run in extra innings and the Blue Jays off to the American League Championship Series for the second straight win in a most unusual fashion - with its three most indispensable players combining in different ways to score a most unusual run in a 7-6 win that resulted in sweeping the Texas Rangers three games straight.