{"id":245212,"date":"2025-10-28T08:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T08:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/245212\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T08:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T08:20:07","slug":"watch-bichette-picked-off-1b-after-umpire-blows-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/245212\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Bichette picked off 1B after umpire blows call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Blue Jays lost a baserunner in brutal fashion early in Game 3 of the World Series.<\/p>\n<p>In the top of the second, Daulton Varsho took what just about everyone in Dodger Stadium thought was ball four &#8211; except for home plate umpire Mark Wegner, who called it a strike. Amid the confusion, Bo Bichette was busy jogging to second base and got caught leaning off first, for a 2-1-3 pickoff.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bo Bichette is picked off for the first out of the 2nd inning <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WorldSeries?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#WorldSeries<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TwQxmgjMJp\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/TwQxmgjMJp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/1982968999895003361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 28, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blue Jays manager John Schneider told <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLBONFOX\/status\/1982974889448579397\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fox Sports&#8217; Ken Rosenthal<\/a> that the mix-up happened because of a slow strike call that Varsho didn&#8217;t hear.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I (asked Wegner) just to be a little bit quicker with his call,&#8221; Schneider said. &#8230; &#8220;Very delayed call, pretty deliberate. Just didn&#8217;t say anything, so Varsh assumed it was a ball and Bo assumed. I just asked him, &#8216;In this environment, can you be a little bit quicker, or give a little bit more clarity, so everyone knows what&#8217;s going on?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Varsho ended up working a walk later in the at-bat. However, the Blue Jays were unable to score in the inning.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Blue Jays lost a baserunner in brutal fashion early in Game 3 of the World Series.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-245212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}