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I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Fangraphs.

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Well, we had another accidental challenge.

Oh, boy.

Yeah, we talked about this on Wednesday when there had been three in the preceding several days.

And on Wednesday, after we recorded, there was another one.

So now there have been at least four accidental challenges in the past week.

This one was the Orioles Kobe Mayo, and he took a pitch that he thought was

ball for. It was called a strike. He sort of started to walk to first. And then he kind of

half reached toward his helmet. But he never actually tapped it. He never touched the helmet. It never made contact. You almost have to do a replay review to see if the helmet was touched and it was not. And Homeplayed Empire John Tumpane interpreted that as a request for a challenge. And the challenge was issued, I guess, inadvertently.

And the call was confirmed.

And Mayo was somewhat upset that he had wasted a challenge without meaning to.

So happened again.

And I did ask MLB about this.

Just, hey, are you aware of these accidental challenges?

Are you thinking of doing anything differently? Yeah. I didn't get an on-the-record response that I can quote, but my sense is that

they're monitoring the situation that they don't want to make any premature changes. It's still

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