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Play at the plate: Did the Cubs get screwed over by Big Umpire?

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LOS ANGELES — If you want to get Joe Maddon riled up, get him talking about specialization in youth sports, his high school days in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, or the so-called “Buster Posey Rule.”

No one asked about travel baseball or Hazleton vs. East Hazleton on Saturday night, so let’s talk about the Dodgers getting a run because of a replay review of a blocking call at the plate on Willson Contreras in the seventh inning.

Culberson safe after review pic.twitter.com/an5usgPpXY

With the Cubs trailing 4-2, left fielder Kyle Schwarber uncorked a beauty of a throw off a Jacob Turner single to left to try and get Charlie Culberson at the plate.