A series of divisive political ads running ahead of this year's midterm elections have been roiling baseball fans during the MLB playoffs.
On Wednesday, an anti-immigration ad attributed to a group called Citizens for Sanity ran several times on FS1 and local FOX channels during Game 2 of the NLCS between the Phillies and Padres.
The commercial blamed Senate Democrats for a recent deadly stabbing incident on the Las Vegas Strip over what it claimed was their refusal to vote for tougher immigration laws.
The "stabbing spree" ad was one of several anti-migrant commercials commissioned by Citizens for Sanity throughout the MLB playoffs, including during the Padres-Dodgers NLDS.
A separate commercial which ran during that series prompted an article by Michael Hiltzik of The Los Angeles Times, who reported that former aides to President Trump, including controversial Senior Advisor Stephen Miller, were behind the "unbelievably racist" ads created by Citizens for Sanity.
Meanwhile the commercials did not seem to go over very well on social media, where many users complained that the ads were bigoted and out of place during a baseball broadcast:
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