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On October 31, 2018, during the parade celebrating the [[Boston Red Sox]] winning the World Series, the trophy was damaged by a beer can thrown by a spectator of the parade;<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2018/11/01/world-series-trophy-was-broken-when-beer-can-slammed-into-it/ Boren, Cindy, "The World Series trophy was broken when a beer can slammed into it"], at washingtonpost.com, November 1, 2018</ref> it was subsequently repaired.
In 2020, in discussing the punishments for the [[Houston Astros sign stealing scandal]], which did not include stripping the Astros of their 2017 championship, commissioner [[Rob Manfred]] referred to the Commissioner's Trophy as "a piece of metal." Following criticism for the dismissive nature of the remark, Manfred issued a public apology.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gonzalez |first1=Alden |title=Manfred: Mistake to call WS trophy 'piece of metal' |url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/28732090/rob-manfred-apologizes-calling-world-series-trophy-piece-metal |access-date=25 July 2020 |work=[[ESPN.com]] |publisher=[[ESPN]] |date=19 February 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
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