Chebucto Regional Softball Club

The amount doesn't matter as much as the context. Plenty of mistakes will always happen because baseball is very hard, but some only happen when you're not focusing on fundamentals. The Dodgers definitely performed below their level, but the Jays committed serious bad-fundamentals blunders in high-leverage situations, and they lost the World Series because of one that was particularly egregious and that you could count on D3 college players to never make. I'm not exaggerating when I say the Blue Jays would be smoking cigars (or comatose) right now if IKF hadn't taken a four inch lead off third, nor taken a bad hop off the batted ball, nor spent time watching it, nor slid on a force play. The Blue Jays win if he only makes three out of four mistakes. But he made all four mistakes and was out by less than a centimeter. If I was John Schneider I would have drowned him in the Gatorade cooler the instant he set foot in the dugout. When you have two fairly evenly-matched teams, the difference will come from who has the nerves not to fuck up the basics in high-pressure situations.

Guess they dodged a bullet there

Pretty funny headline. Definitely did not need to be a 4+ paragraph article.

I thought A's management would have first dibs on being called "clowns" in relation to baseball

This is good shit