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Sports Illustrated
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Nick Selbe

Announcers for Both Teams Couldn’t Believe Strike 3 Call on Red Sox DH Justin Turner

Tune into any baseball game’s local broadcast, and you’ll be in store for plenty of wondrous, partisan commentary. Such is to be expected when the announcers are playing to an audience comprised almost entirely by their team’s local fanbase. With that type of dynamic, it’s rare that opposing sides of the same game ever agree on much when it comes to plays—or umpiring calls—of the subjective manner.

But during Tuesday night’s game between the Red Sox and Nationals, the commentators for both teams could agree on one particularly egregious call.

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