Major League Baseball ramped up surveillance efforts this week to prevent pitchers from using sticky substances to improve their grip. Umpires can spot-check a pitcher's glove, hat, belt, and body throughout the game and opposing managers can request checks. If a foreign substance is found, a pitcher can be banned for 10 games. The inspections led to one pitcher dropping his pants in disgust, several tantrums, and a tense exchange that ended with a manager being ejected.
We’re just two days into Major League Baseball starting to randomly check pitchers for foreign sticky substances and it’s already a total mess of a process. I mean, who could have seen this coming?! Tuesday night in Philadelphia we saw Nats’ ace Max Scherzer angrily rip open his belt after being …
On Tuesday night in Philadelphia, Washington Nationals ace Max Scherzer proved that it’s possible to spitefully, even combatively, unbuckle your belt …
Nats’ Scherzer, A's Romo are just the latest crying over nothing
Around 5:30 p.m ET on Monday, the best pitcher in baseball, New York Mets ace Jacob deGrom, became the first person subjected to Major League …
It took fewer than two full days for Major League Baseball's new foreign substance policy to stir up some controversy. The league has Philadelphia …
Washington Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo said Philadelphia Phillies manager Joe Girardi was playing games when he spurred the umpires to check …
Not even the best pitcher in MLB is immune from the league's new rule mandating umpires check for illegal sticky substances on pitchers' persons. And, …
Major League Baseball directed umpires to begin checking pitchers for foreign substances this week. And the league is in absolute shambles.Tuesday …
NEW YORK — Gerrit Cole didn’t know what to do. For two straight innings, as the Yankees ace walked off the field, he made sure to look in the …
Kris Bryant is speaking out in defense of MLB over their foreign substance checks of pitchers. Some pitchers have spoken out against the way MLB …
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