Every mistake, in order.

Clase and Ortiz Are Indicted

Federal prosecutors charged Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz with rigging pitches for bettors. The indictment alleges the bettors won at least $450,000. Both pitchers had already been placed on leave. The case was not finished when the charges were made public.

Cleveland Guardians

Hudson and the Immaculate Inning

Yoshinobu Yamamoto was one called strike from an immaculate inning when Marvin Hudson ruled a 96-mph fastball a ball. Yamamoto struck out the side anyway. The inning was no longer immaculate.

San Diego Padres · Los Angeles Dodgers

The Yankees' Fifth Inning

The Yankees led Game 5 of the World Series by five runs. Aaron Judge dropped a fly ball, Anthony Volpe bounced a throw, and Gerrit Cole did not cover first. The Dodgers scored five unearned runs and won the championship.

Los Angeles Dodgers · New York Yankees

The Ball in Betts's Glove

Mookie Betts caught Gleyber Torres's foul against the right-field wall. Two fans grabbed his glove and tried to take the ball. Torres was called out for interference, and the fans were barred from the next game.

Los Angeles Dodgers · New York Yankees

The 121st Loss

On September 27, 2024, the White Sox lost their 121st game and passed the 1962 Mets. They finished 41–121. The season included a franchise-record losing streak of 21.

Chicago White Sox · Detroit Tigers

Marcano's Lifetime Ban

Major League Baseball banned Tucupita Marcano for life for betting on baseball, including 25 bets on Pirates games while he was on Pittsburgh's roster. It was the first lifetime gambling ban since Pete Rose in 1989.

San Diego Padres · Pittsburgh Pirates

Hoberg Is Fired

Pat Hoberg, one of the league's most accurate ball-strike umpires, was fired for sharing legal betting accounts with a poker player who bet on baseball, and for deleting messages. Major League Baseball found no evidence he had bet on the game himself.

Mizuhara's Debts

During the Seoul Series, the Dodgers fired Ippei Mizuhara, Shohei Ohtani's interpreter. Mizuhara had stolen about $17 million from Ohtani's account to pay illegal gambling debts. He pleaded guilty. Prosecutors cleared Ohtani.

Los Angeles Dodgers

The Reverse Boycott

On June 13, 2023, 27,759 people, the season's largest crowd, came to the Coliseum to tell John Fisher to sell the Athletics. They wore shirts that said SELL. The club left Oakland after the 2024 season.

Oakland Athletics · Tampa Bay Rays

Scherzer's Hand

In the fourth inning at Dodger Stadium, the umpires checked Max Scherzer's hand and glove, ruled them too sticky, and threw him out. Major League Baseball suspended him ten games. He said it was rosin and sweat.

New York Mets · Los Angeles Dodgers

A Game Ends on the Clock

On the first full day of the pitch clock, Cal Conley was not set in the box at the eight-second mark with the bases loaded in the ninth. Umpire John Libka called an automatic strike three, and a spring game ended in a tie.

Atlanta Braves · Boston Red Sox

The Check Swing

With the tying run on base in the ninth of a winner-take-all game, Wilmer Flores held up on an 0–2 slider. First-base umpire Gabe Morales ruled that he had swung. The Giants' season ended.

Los Angeles Dodgers · San Francisco Giants

Craig Chases Báez

A throw pulled Will Craig off first base with two outs. Instead of getting back to the bag, he chased Javier Báez toward home. Willson Contreras scored from second, and Báez ended up on second base.

Chicago Cubs · Pittsburgh Pirates

Cash Pulls Snell

Blake Snell led Game 6 of the World Series on 73 pitches when Kevin Cash took him out after a one-out single. Nick Anderson allowed the tying and go-ahead runs. The Dodgers won the championship.

Tampa Bay Rays · Los Angeles Dodgers

Phillips, Taylor, and the Relay

With two outs in the ninth of World Series Game 4, Brett Phillips singled, Chris Taylor bobbled the ball, and the relay home never got there. Randy Arozarena tripped on the way and still scored.

Los Angeles Dodgers · Tampa Bay Rays

Betts to the Dodgers

Boston sent Mookie Betts and David Price to Los Angeles for Alex Verdugo, Jeter Downs, and Connor Wong. A three-team version of the deal had already collapsed over a medical file.

Boston Red Sox · Los Angeles Dodgers · Minnesota Twins

Arozarena to Tampa

St. Louis traded Randy Arozarena and José Martínez for Matthew Liberatore and other pieces. That October Arozarena hit ten home runs in the postseason, a record, on the way to the World Series.

St. Louis Cardinals · Tampa Bay Rays

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

Kershaw, Then Kelly

Dave Roberts brought Clayton Kershaw in to protect a two-run lead, and Anthony Rendon and Juan Soto homered back to back. Joe Kelly then pitched a second inning, and Howie Kendrick hit a grand slam.

Washington Nationals · Los Angeles Dodgers

Bauer Throws It Over the Fence

When Terry Francona came to take him out in the fifth, Trevor Bauer turned and threw the baseball over the center-field fence at Kauffman Stadium. He apologized after the game. Cleveland traded him within the week.

Cleveland Indians · Kansas City Royals

Davis Goes 0-for-54

In the middle of a seven-year, $161 million contract, Chris Davis went 0-for-54, the longest hitless streak by a position player in major-league history. The streak ended on April 13, 2019.

Baltimore Orioles

Three Calls, Four Innings

In the first four innings of a 2018 division-series game, first-base umpire Ángel Hernández had three calls overturned by replay. Two involved Didi Gregorius. One involved Gleyber Torres.

Boston Red Sox · New York Yankees

Archer to Pittsburgh

At the 2018 deadline Pittsburgh sent Tyler Glasnow, Austin Meadows, and Shane Baz to Tampa Bay for Chris Archer. Archer's earned-run average in Pittsburgh stayed over 5. Meadows and Glasnow became the players the prospects had been advertised as.

Pittsburgh Pirates · Tampa Bay Rays

Girardi Does Not Challenge

A two-out pitch was ruled to have hit Lonnie Chisenhall. Replays showed it had hit the bat. Joe Girardi did not challenge. Francisco Lindor then hit a grand slam.

New York Yankees · Cleveland Indians

Davis off Chapman

Joe Maddon brought Aroldis Chapman in to protect a three-run lead in the eighth inning of Game 7. Rajai Davis hit a two-run homer that tied it. The Cubs won in the tenth.

Chicago Cubs · Cleveland Indians

Five Relievers in the Ninth

Matt Moore left Game 4 of the 2016 division series with a 5–2 lead after eight innings. Bruce Bochy used five relievers in the ninth and did not use Santiago Casilla. The Cubs scored four runs, the last on Javier Báez's single.

Chicago Cubs · San Francisco Giants

Britton Stays in the Bullpen

Buck Showalter saved Zach Britton, who had converted all 47 of his saves with a 0.54 earned-run average, for a lead that never came. Ubaldo Jiménez gave up a three-run walk-off homer in the eleventh.

Baltimore Orioles · Toronto Blue Jays

Alvarez for Fields

On the 2016 trade deadline the Dodgers sent Yordan Alvarez, 19 and still without a professional game in the United States, to Houston for reliever Josh Fields.

Los Angeles Dodgers · Houston Astros

Tatis for Shields

The White Sox sent Fernando Tatis Jr., 17 and still without a professional game, and Erik Johnson to San Diego for James Shields and a large share of his contract.

San Diego Padres · Chicago White Sox

Miller for Swanson

Six months after drafting Dansby Swanson first overall, Arizona traded him, Ender Inciarte, and Aaron Blair to Atlanta for Shelby Miller. Miller went 3–12 with a 6.15 earned-run average the next year.

Arizona Diamondbacks · Atlanta Braves

Harvey Talks His Way Back

Terry Collins let Matt Harvey pitch the ninth of World Series Game 5 with a two-run lead. Harvey walked a man and gave up a double. Eric Hosmer then scored the tying run on a throw Lucas Duda did not get to the plate.

Kansas City Royals · New York Mets

The Throw That Hit the Bat

Russell Martin's throw back to the pitcher hit Shin-Soo Choo's bat. The ball was live, Rougned Odor scored from third, and the Rogers Centre threw trash.

Texas Rangers · Toronto Blue Jays

The Infield Fly in Atlanta

With the Braves rallying in a winner-take-all game, Sam Holbrook called the infield fly rule on a ball that fell in short left field. The crowd threw trash for nineteen minutes.

Atlanta Braves · St. Louis Cardinals