Watch: Toles muffs fly ball to extend Cubs' 1st-inning rally
This is the kind of thing that's usually happened to Chicago Cubs outfielders for the last 108 years, not their opponents.
With Wrigley Field already shaking Saturday thanks to Kris Bryant's RBI single a batter earlier, Anthony Rizzo hit a weak fly ball to left field that landed clean inside the webbing of Andrew Toles' glove.
Well, it would have landed cleanly inside Toles' glove, except Toles dropped the baseball and it frittered away to his right, extending the Cubs' first-inning rally off Los Angeles Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw.
The error gave Bryant third base and Rizzo ended up on second. It sent the 102-year-old ballpark into an unprecedented frenzy, as Cubs fans are used to watching their own left fielders misplay fly balls during Game 6 of an NLCS, not the other way around.
When Bryant scored on a Ben Zobrist sacrifice fly one batter later, it marked the first time that Kershaw allowed more than one first-inning run in a game since June 27 of last year, according to ESPN's Jayson Stark.
After throwing 30 pitches Kershaw exited the frame with his Dodgers down 2-0.
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