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Originally Posted by paulsonj72
In The Umpire Strikes Back by Ron Luciano he explained the whole situation. It was Lou Pinnella warming up the infielders due to Chris Chambliss suffering a cut on his hand after being forced out at 2nd base to end the inning and Sparky Anderson who was in his 1st year in Detroit said that Lou was now in the game defensivley at 1st base and Bill Haller said no and thus Sparky protested the game. A little later in the same game Lance Parrish made the final out of the inning and Rusty Staub who was in Detroit at the time(and was the DH in this game) came out to warm up the pitcher and Billy lodged the same protest as Sparky had.(P 201-202 in the Umpire Strikes Back) Lee McPhail(AL President) rejected both protests and that is how it all went down.
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Thank you for the specifics. Obviously, my memory was not perfect as the actual situation did not involve a player tossing a warm-up pitch, but, rather, involved position players being warmed-up by a potential substitute.