On July 29, 1970, Egan set an AL record with five passed balls in the game. Then in the sixth inning, he dropped the throw to the plate that allowed the Yankees to score the eventual winning run in a 6-5 game. It turned into the kind of game every catcher hopes to laugh about someday.
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