Indians walk-off Blue Jays with wild inside-the-park HR

The Toronto Blue Jays found a new way to lose Friday night in Cleveland.

Trailing 2-1 entering the bottom of the ninth inning, Indians third baseman Jose Ramirez tied the game with a solo home run off Blue Jays closer Roberto Osuna.

Then things got a little crazy.

Tyler Naquin followed Ramirez by drilling a ball off the wall that eluded the outstretched glove of right fielder Michael Saunders. Blue Jays center fielder Melvin Upton made a play for the ball but slipped as he picked it up, allowing Naquin to circle the bases for the walk-off inside-the-park home run and 3-2 win.

"That's right up there with the (Jason) Giambi walk off in '13 for coolest finishes I've ever been apart of," Indians second baseman Jason Kipnis tweeted. "Unreal!"

It was the first time in Toronto's 40-year history that the team lost a game via a walk-off inside-the-park homer. It also marked just the third time Osuna has blown a save this season, and first time he's allowed multiple runs since June 29th, a span of 23 games.

"That went from feeling pretty good to feeling rotten, that's for sure," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons told reporters.

The wild trip around the bases for the rookie Naquin anointed him as just the second player in Indians history to hit a walk-off inside-the-park home run, and first since Braggo Roth in 1916, according to ESPN Stats and Info. It's also the first time a team has hit a game-tying home run, and walk-off inside-the-park home run in the same inning.

(Video courtesy: MLB.com)