Īs Brett crossed the plate, however, New York manager Billy Martin approached rookie home plate umpire Tim McClelland and requested Brett's bat be examined. After fouling off the first pitch to the left, Brett connected on a high strike and put it well into the right field stands for a two-run home run and a 5–4 lead. With U L Washington on first base George Brett came to the plate and reliever Dale Murray was replaced by closer Rich "Goose" Gossage. The visiting Royals were trailing 4–3 with two outs in the top of the ninth in a game being played at New York's Yankee Stadium. Incident The baseball bat used by Kansas City Royals third baseman George Brett in the Pine Tar Incident on JGeorge Brett hit the home run that ultimately won the game for the Kansas City Royals The game was resumed 25 days later on August 18, and officially ended with the Royals winning 5–4. The Royals protested the game, upheld by American League president Lee MacPhail, who ordered that the game be continued from the point of Brett's home run. As Brett was the third out in the ninth inning with the home team in the lead, the game ended with a Yankees win. The umpires ruled that the amount on the bat exceeded that allowed by rule, nullified Brett's home run, and called him out. With his team trailing 4–3 in the top half of the ninth inning and two out, the Royals' future Hall of Fame third baseman George Brett hit a two-run home run off of Rich "Goose" Gossage (also a future Hall of Famer) to give his team the lead however, Yankees manager Billy Martin, who had noticed a large amount of pine tar on Brett's bat, requested that the umpires inspect his bat. The Pine Tar Incident (also known as the Pine Tar Game) was a controversial incident in 1983 during an American League baseball game played between the Kansas City Royals and New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in New York City on Sunday, July 24, 1983. WABC: Rizzuto, Messer, White, and John Gordon WPIX: Phil Rizzuto, Frank Messer, Bill White and Bobby Murcer WDAF-TV: Denny Matthews, Fred White and Denny Trease
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