On Wednesday, the Yankees’ game against the Tigers turned bizarre in the late innings when a balk was called on reliever Mark Leiter Jr. for one of the strangest reasons fans have ever seen.

The incident happened in the top of the seventh inning. Mark Leiter’s pitch bounced off catcher Austin Wells and somehow got stuck under his chest protector. Instead of calling it a dead ball, the umpires, after a brief discussion, ruled it a balk, moving the runners and leaving both benches stunned. The Tigers gladly took the free base, while the Yankees, who were recently on the wrong side of another umpire’s call, stood around looking confused.

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Notably, this isn’t the first time the Yankees have been on the wrong end of bizarre umpiring calls this season. Last week, umpire B

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