From d5b41ce210c0f22dd795749810f6ce798f71a00f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Moore <github@ricmoo.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2021 11:48:36 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Removed redundant call to normalizing blockTag (1838).

---
 packages/providers/src.ts/base-provider.ts | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/packages/providers/src.ts/base-provider.ts b/packages/providers/src.ts/base-provider.ts
index f73fed595..98973b695 100644
--- a/packages/providers/src.ts/base-provider.ts
+++ b/packages/providers/src.ts/base-provider.ts
@@ -1338,7 +1338,7 @@ export class BaseProvider extends Provider implements EnsProvider {
             params.blockHash = blockHashOrBlockTag;
         } else {
             try {
-                params.blockTag = this.formatter.blockTag(await this._getBlockTag(blockHashOrBlockTag));
+                params.blockTag = await this._getBlockTag(blockHashOrBlockTag);
                 if (isHexString(params.blockTag)) {
                     blockNumber = parseInt(params.blockTag.substring(2), 16);
                 }