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Utley slide may trigger rule change on take-out slides

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Oct 10, 2015; Los Angeles, CA, USA; New York Mets shortstop Ruben Tejada (11) collides with Los Angeles …

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The 2015 Major League Baseball postseason is young but already there is good reason to believe it will leave a significant legacy.

It might well be remembered as the coming out party of the young, slugging Chicago Cubs, and the New York Mets with their array of precocious power pitchers.

But an even surer bet is that the punishing, late slide by the Los Angeles Dodgers' Chase Utley that ended New York Mets shortstop Ruben Tejada's postseason in Game Two of the Division Series with a broken right leg will lead to MLB legislation.