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Trea Turner with the Nationals, June 30, 2021. Not the 2019 World Series Game 6 play.

Umpire Controversies2019

Turner in the Runner's Lane

In World Series Game 6, Trea Turner was called out for runner's-lane interference on a bunt, and a run came off the board. The rule's wording became the argument. Washington won the series anyway.

Washington Nationals · Houston Astros

George Brett's pine-tar bat on display at the Henry Ford Museum in 2006, beside Mark McGwire's body armor. The photograph is of the bat years later, not the July 24, 1983 at-bat.

Rules & Quirks1983

The Pine Tar Game

George Brett's go-ahead homer was taken off the board because there was too much pine tar on the bat. The league president put the homer back.

Kansas City Royals · New York Yankees