For those who say the Pine Tar incident doesn't count. Well, yes it does.
Brett was reinstated because the Yankees KNEW his bat had too much pine tar on it but did NOT tell the Umpires when they first knew about it. Nope, they waited until he did something which negatively affected them to alert the Umpires about it. The Ump then ruled Brett Out and then the AL President reinstated him and ruled the last four Outs to be replayed.
Notice how an AL President ruled on something important like this and NOT the Commish.
Also notice how four Outs of a game had to be replayed which could have resulted in a different ending.
Changing the Hit to an Out (the correct call) would NOT affect the outcome or ending of that game.
David
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