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Secret Base·Sports & Sports AnalysisLenny Randle, do your thing.
TL;DR
Lenny Randle directly incited a Major League Baseball forfeit, one of only a handful in history, after charging the mound in a 1974 game.
Key Points
- 1.MLB forfeits have only ever been caused by a narrow set of reasons. According to James Ford's roundup in Volume 25 of *The National Pastime*, every forfeit in MLB history was caused by field problems, darkness, or fans invading/throwing objects onto the field.
- 2.The 1974 game was only the 10th forfeit in MLB history and the first in nearly 20 years. Lenny Randle was a passive observer in that earlier forfeit, playing no active role in causing it.
- 3.Randle would go on to directly incite the next forfeit in MLB history. On May 29th, 1974, in Arlington, Texas, he charged the mound against Cleveland pitcher Milt Wilcox, setting events in motion.
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