Shawn decides to tell a few of the players on the mound about this during the game. However, Shawn's theory backfires when he learns that the entire team has been sleeping with each other's wives and girlfriends. An enormous brawl ensues.

Mel lectures the entire team for their crazy behavior on the field. The General Manager fires Shawn from the team and replaces him with Wade Boggs, as in the actual baseball legend Wade Boggs.

As Shawn is leaving the locker room, he sees Izzy dead on the floor, whacked on the side of the head with a baseball bat. Mel is the first suspect interrogated at the SBPD, and Shawn is the only one who believes Mel didn't kill Izzy; Henry, Juliet and Lassiter are not convinced. Turns out they found a bag of amphetamines in Mel's belongings. Shawn knows it wasn't Mel and gets Woody to help confirm it. Woody tells them that the person who hit Izzy with a baseball bat struck hard and fast and at a certain angle. Shawn looks at the report, and the bat used to kill Izzy was a size 35.

Now Shawn thinks that it was Cal who killed Izzy because the murder weapon was a size 35 bat and believes that Cal is the only player on the team who uses that size. Shawn confronts Cal and gets confirmation that it was not Cal because it turns out that Cal is leaving to go to Oakland to play in the majors again.

Shawn finds a way to continue his investigation in the team's locker room by disguising himself as the mascot. Shawn finds Izzy's contract and Shawnvisions the words "Bonus pay after time at major league level," and then "Must be traded or promoted after sixty games." From there, Shawn puts it together that it was the General Manager who tried to have Izzy's contract suspended by planting drugs in his system, but his plan backfired when Grady accidentally ingested the drugs instead.

The GM made the mistake of signing Izzy to a 12 million dollar contract, one that he would have to pay in full even if Izzy couldn't hit a curveball, which he discovered, as the season wore on, was indeed the case. When his attempt to get Izzy suspended by flunking a drug test didn't work, the GM desperately tried to trade Izzy to another team before having to shell out the 10 million dollar bonus for being promoted to the big leagues, a bonus that was guaranteed after Izzy played sixty games in the minors. And when there were no takers, the GM decided to kill him and collect the insurance so the team wasn't out the money and he could keep his job.

During the final showdown, the GM finds out that Shawn and Gus are on to him and holds them at gunpoint. Luckily Cal shows up because he had a hunch about the GM being the culprit. Then Wade Boggs shows up, and the GM tries to run away. But before he can escape, Henry knocks the GM out and saves Shawn, Gus, Cal and Wade.

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