Royals players pretend to take cover from trash-tossing Blue Jays fans (VIDEO)

The Royals and Blue Jays haven't have trouble with Rogers Centre fans throwing trash on the field during the ALCS in like visiting players did in an ugly scene last week.

Still, some Royals players were more than ready to protect themselves from flying objects in case anyone in the crowd decided to make their feelings heard after a call on Tuesday.

The dugout hijinks happened when Alcides Escobar was hit by a pitch on his knuckles in the second inning, but only awarded first base after a video review. When the call was overturned, fans booed loudly, Jeremy Guthrie and Paulo Orlando covered their heads in mock anticipation of being pelted. Johnny Cueto jumped up and down, and others pointed but no foreign objects came.

Here's the call which made the Royals take cover. If you look closely, you can see the players in the dugout getting ready for the deluge which never happened.

Now if the Canucks could only keep the fruits and vegetables out of the cheap seats.

Drew Butera, who was a few feet away, believes object thrown from 500 level last night that just missed Toronto policeman was a green pepper

— Vahe Gregorian (@vgregorian) October 20, 2015

A-Rod obliges crowd with curtain call after 25th career grand slam (VIDEO)

Alex Rodriguez had talked in recent days about feeling lousy at the plate, citing his 7-for-53 slump through 14 games in August as "stinking up the joint."

But when his team needed him most Tuesday night, down three runs with only eight outs to go, A-Rod did what he does best and delivered one of his biggest hits of his remarkable comeback season.

With one mighty swing of the bat, Rodriguez hit the 25th grand slam of his career turning a three-run deficit into a one-run lead as the Yankees went on to an 8-4 victory over the Twins.

In return, the electrified Yankee Stadium crowd gave the slugger a robust curtain call.

Tonight was grand. https://t.co/igmgxocgTq

— New York Yankees (@Yankees) August 19, 2015

The seventh-inning home run was A-Rod's first since he went deep on his 40th birthday back on July 27. 

“I certainly felt great,” he said later. “A home run feels great; a grand slam feels pretty awesome — especially to do it late and to help us win a game.”

The victory was the Yankees’ fifth in the past six games, keeping them in sole possession of first place in the AL East over the Toronto Blue Jays.

It smells like victory in the Bronx now.