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Offline tenken627

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Re: Nationals vs Braves, Game 2
« Reply #200: July 30, 2019, 09:32:58 PM »
I’m doing good just to remember the initial incident. :old:

I remembered wrong lol. Wasn't Sosa but Albert Belle

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Cleveland_Indians_corked_bat_incident

The Indians, knowing the bat was indeed corked, dispatched relief pitcher Jason Grimsley to retrieve the bat. Grimsley took a bat belonging to Indians player Paul Sorrento and accessed the area above the false ceiling in the clubhouse and crawled across with a flashlight in his mouth until he reached the umpires' room. He switched Belle's bat with Sorrento's and returned to the clubhouse.[2] During the sixth inning, the umpires' custodian noticed clumps of ceiling tile on the floor of the umpire's room, plus twisted metal brackets in the ceiling.

After the game, Phillips noticed the bats were different when he saw that the replacement bat was not as shiny and also was stamped with Sorrento's signature. The Chicago police were called and the White Sox threatened charges against the burglar. An investigation that Saturday was carried out by a former FBI agent flown in by MLB.[3] The equipment room was dusted for fingerprints and the path the burglar took was discovered.