Major League Baseball has tweaked its rules several times over the past year in an effort to speed the game up and make it more exciting. Some players have legitimate complaints about these changes, as do the fans, but a recent game between the Washington Nationals and Philadelphia Phillies proved that sometimes these rules changes can make the game more exciting — though not always in the way intended.

The backstory is that pitchers have been putting sticky goop on their fingers, which allows them to impart more spin at a higher velocity. MLB has cracked down, requiring umpires to check pitchers to make sure they are not using “sticky stuff.”