Rob Refsnyder scored the game-winning run for the Blue Jays with a fantastic sneaky slide
One of the newest Blue Jays ended up making the biggest contribution during their 4-3 extra-innings victory over the Astros on Saturday night.
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Refsnyder's manager, John Gibbons, called it the play of the game, and for good reason.
With a nifty slide around McCann's tag, Refsnyder snuck his hand onto home plate for the go-ahead run. "I knew it was going to be close," he said to MLB.com's Christian Boutwell. "I was just trying to time it up, hopefully he was going to make his tag and just tried to avoid it."
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That's the kind of impressive dexterity once displayed by Astros playoff hero Chris Burke in the ninth inning of Game 2 in the 2005 World Series.
Just like Refsnyder, Burke was able to beat a good throw to the plate in a high-stakes situation with a subtle one-handed slide. This time, the Astros weren't quite so lucky.