In the first inning of their game Tuesday against the Seattle Mariners<\/a>, J.T. Realmuto<\/a> was called out on strikes on a pitch by Bryce Miller<\/a> that would have ended the inning.<\/p>\n However, Realmuto argued that his swing was interfered with by Seattle catcher Mitch Garver<\/a> — who was starting behind the plate while usual catcher and MLB homer leader Cal Raleigh<\/a> was in the lineup as a designated hitter.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks The Phillies challenged the call, and after a video review, it was determined that Garver’s glove did interfere with Realmuto’s bat on the swing, and Realmuto was awarded first base.<\/p>\n Last month, when Boston was in Philadelphia, catcher Carlos Narvaez<\/a> was called for inference in consecutive games, in both instances allowing a run to score, one of them to end a game in extra innings. It was the first walk-off catcher’s interference since 1971.<\/p>\n This time, there was no damage as Miller induced a fielder’s choice ground out by Alec Bohm<\/a> on the first pitch after the review, ending the inning with Seattle trailing 1-0 thanks to Kyle Schwarber<\/a>‘s NL-leading 44th homer.<\/p>\n Major League baseball set a record in 2024 for catcher’s interference calls with 100, which broke the mark set a season earlier when there were 96 infractions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 19, 2025, 08:00 PM ET PHILADELPHIA — For the third time in less than a month, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-95686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/r1521929_683x683_1-1.jpg&w=130&h=130&scale=crop&location=center.jpeg\")
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