The Blue Jays will be reviewing the sale of beer cans at the Rogers Centre after angry fans threw them onto the field during Toronto’s AL Division Series victory over the Texas Rangers on Wednesday.

Mario Coutinho, the team’s vice-president of stadium operations and security, said beer can sales would be included in an overall review of security protocols at the stadium.

“I think you look back to 81 home games this season and we haven’t had those situations before. I think like I said it was more of an emotional reaction, not something that was a result of the sale of alcohol at the stadium,” Coutinho told the Star in a telephone interview on Thursday.

“When you have 39,000 people” at the game, Coutinho added, “it was a small minority” involved. He said about 30 fans were ejected for throwing things onto the field during the game.

Fans tossed beer cans and other debris onto the field – including popcorn, towels, signs and soft drinks, Coutinho said – after a controversial call in the seventh inning gave the Texas Rangers a short-lived lead.

Many of the cans landed short of the field, spraying some people in the lower decks with beer and hitting others. About two dozen police officers stood guard around the perimeter of the field.

No injuries were reported as a result of the incident, Coutinho said.

“I don’t think it’s ever happened to this degree that I can recall here in Toronto and I think Toronto fans are generally very calm and well-behaved,” he said.

“And I think we saw that last night where some of the fans were actually encouraging people to settle down and relax. I think that’s the Toronto, the Canadian, good in all our fans that kicked in after the emotional reaction.”

Toronto police reported that a man had been charged with mischief after a baby was hit by the spray of a thrown beer can during the game. Const. Victor Kwong said Albert Grummitt, 33, of Caistor Centre, On., was arrested Wednesday night and has since been released. He is due in court on Nov. 24.

Police say the baby was with her mother in the front row of the Rogers Centre when the can was tossed their way. Television cameras captured a teary woman holding her baby shortly after the incident.

Const. David Hopkinson says the baby wasn’t hit by the can and is OK.

The Jays will meet with Toronto police on Friday and over the weekend to review security protocols, Coutinho said.

“We had a very sound plan in terms of our resources. We’re going to review it either way and see what we can adjust and what we learned from yesterday’s experience,” he said.

Police Insp. Chris Boddy said officers will be keeping an eye on fans as they pack into bars and other venues to watch the Jays take on the Royals in Kansas City on Friday in the first American League Championship Series game.

And they'll be monitoring the crowd when the Jays play at home for Game 3 on Monday.

As tensions peaked Wednesday, the players themselves were among those urging fans to settle down.

“It’s unfortunate that it had to come to that,” Boddy said. “But I don’t expect that we’re going to have any issues like that again throughout the series — that was a one-time incident in our opinion — but we’re going to be there just the same making sure everybody’s safe.”

During the game, several Jays’ players, including pitcher Marcus Stroman, back-up catcher Dioner Navarro and first baseman Edwin Encarnacion, came out of the dugout to try to calm down the riled up Toronto crowd.

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“These people got to stop throwing beer cans out of the upper decks. You’re hitting people down below,” Fox broadcaster Harold Reynolds said during the incident.

“Babies down there, little kids, that’s sad,” Reynolds said on the air. “Come on people, let’s get it together.”

The Toronto police force has been preaching restraint on social media using the hashtag #FanEtiquette as Jays mania reaches a fever pitch.

“The actions you take will not affect the outcome of the game, only effect the perception of #Toronto. Keep classy Toronto. #FanEtiquette,” Const. Wendy Drummond tweeted during Wednesday’s game.

“Our fans got their feathers ruffled, but hopefully they regain their composure #FanEtiquette,” she said in another tweet.

Even Mayor John Tory appealed to the home crowd to keep calm on Wednesday. “Just because an ump disrespects the game doesn't mean our city will disrespect itself. Be cool, Toronto,” he tweeted.

In a Fox Sports column published Thursday, baseball writer Ken Rosenthal lambasted Jays fans and management and the league itself for what he called “the ugly scene” at Rogers Centre.

“In the interest of fairness, let’s view the ugly fan reaction to a controversial call during the Jays’ thrilling Division Series clincher as an isolated incident, the work of a few dozen idiots, nothing more,” Rosenthal wrote.

“Fine, but know this: It can’t happen again.”

But the bizarre seventh inning didn’t end there: the benches cleared twice in the pivotal 53-minute stretch that saw Toronto slugger Jose Bautista hit a three-run shot to left field to give the Jays a 6-3 lead.

The first melee erupted when Encarnacion waved to the crowd to stop throwing things onto the field after Bautista’s homer and Rangers reliever Sam Dyson mistook misunderstood his actions.

The benches cleared again after Dyson smacked Troy Tulowitzki on the butt after he popped out to end the inning.

“I’ve seen some crazy baseball s--t in my time, but nothing like the current Blue Jays-Rangers game,” author Stephen King wrote on Twitter during the game. “Who said Canadian fans were polite?”

–With files from The Canadian Press