'Baseball wedgie': How padded outfield wall may have saved Dodgers season

It cannot be overstated as to how important this play and call ended up being.

If the ball does not get lodged under the wall, there is a good chance Myles Straw scores to cut the deficit to 3-2, leaving the tying run on second base with nobody out. Maybe Barger ends up at third on a throw home? Who knows how the play unfolds.

There is also the alternate universe where the umpires do not agree with Dean that the ball was lodged and did not rule it an automatic double. At which point, Straw and Barger were going to race around the bases and tie the game.

But while that is the least likely potential outcome, even one run scoring on that play completely changes everything that follows after.

Does Tyler Glasnow come in out of the bullpen and throw different pitches to Ernie Clement or Andres Gimenez? Does Barger wander as far off second base on Gimenez's soft liner to left field? There are so many variables that cannot be answered and are purely hypothetical. 

That is what makes it one of the most chaotic plays in recent World Series history. 

That is also what makes it perfect for this World Series that is already shaping up to be a classic. That play is just another bizarre — and incredible — chapter in the story that is being written by these two teams.