Police may have wrong man in beer-can throwing incident
It was a shocking moment the other night when someone threw a can of beer at an outfielder for the Baltimore Orioles, just as he was about to make a catch on a deep fly in the wild card play-in game.
It was sadly typical of the fans of the Toronto Blue Jays, who have a history of throwing cans of beer on the field and each other, particularly in the postseason.
Who did it? Deadspin pulled out all the stops in its search -- because none of the fans surrounding the ne'er-do-well would point him out (you knew it had to be a guy). It came up empty.
But Toronto police, having also scoured all the videos, say they've got their man.
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This guy.
The police asked the public to help ID him and The Canadian Press says Ken Pagan e-mailed the news service and said it's him.
Pagan is a sports journalist for the Toronto Sun, which had offered $1,000 for the beer-thrower's capture. Embarrassing.
But Pagan, who is to turn himself in today, says he didn't do it. He's got some evidence, Huffington Post Canada says. He was shown earlier drinking beer out of a cup, not a can.
Others suggest it was a woman.
You can see Pagan in this tweet from photographer Frank Gunn. He was discounted from suspicion in the Deadspin Zapruder-like analysis of the evidence.
It seems clear the person who threw it, is ducking down.
It also seems clear that if Pagan didn't throw the can of beer, he -- like the rest of the people in the photo above -- could've pointed out who did.
Meanwhile, a group of Toronto fans -- we'll just refer to them as "real baseball fans", thank you very much -- bought an ad on Facebook to apologize to their counterparts in Baltimore.