Cheating in baseball is as old as the game itself, and pitchers’ modifying the ball’s surface is part of that long history. Adding to the lore of cheating is a new scandal involving pitchers who may ...
The Mets, losers of nine of 10, managed to lose more than a game Tuesday. The Mets’ predicament has gotten stickier after Drew Smith was ejected when trying to enter a game the Mets lost at Citi Field ...
When Mets closer Edwin Diaz was ejected on Sunday night before throwing a pitch, he became the third Mets pitcher in the last year and change to fall victim to MLB's arbitrary sticky stuff rules. The ...
ATLANTA — The question for Charlie Morton was about pitchers using sticky stuff, a subject back in the headlines after Major League Baseball suspended Mets reliever Drew Smith 10 games on Wednesday, ...
New York Mets co-ace Max Scherzer is presently serving a 10-game suspension for the use of a banned grip-enhancing substance during his most recent start against the Dodgers. During that start, ...
Think back to two years ago, when you first snickered at the idea of a sticky balls controversy in Major League Baseball. Without rehashing the specifics and without making any assumption about intent ...
CLEARWATER, Fla. — For the third straight season, Major League Baseball is gearing up to address the use of “sticky stuff” by pitchers across the sport. Major-league sources told The Athletic that ...