Watch: Blue Jays pitcher accidentally tackles opposing fielder
The Toronto Blue Jays were 6-4 winners in Oakland on Sunday afternoon thanks in large part to a three-run top of the 10th inning.
As successful as that inning was, it also featured one of the weirdest plays of the season when outfielder Davis Schneider fouled out to first base.
Technically, he was called out for interference.
The interference? Well, that was provided by Blue Jays starting pitcher Yusei Kikuchi who accidentally crushed A's first basemen Tyler Soderstrom by lowering a shoulder into him and knocking him to the ground.
With that open-field tackling, Kikuchi might have a spot in the NFL (or the CFL given that he plays in Toronto) if this whole baseball thing does not work out.
Kikuchi did not do it on purpose, and he was clearly trying to scramble to get out of the way in an effort to give Soderstrom room to make the catch, but it obviously did not go as planned.
In most stadiums that foul ball would have been 14 rows deep into the stands, but Oakland's ballpark has some of the most expansive foul territory in the league. It certainly helped play a role in creating one of the weirdest moments of the season here.
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