Mets pitcher Max Scherzer gets 10-game ban for using a foreign substance on the mound

[pwaldo]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/ml...nce-mound.html

Mets pitcher Maz Scherzer got a 10-game ban from Major League Baseball on Thursday following his ejection for having a foreign substance on his hand during Wednesday's game.

Scherzer initially appealed the penalty imposed by Michael Hill, MLB's senior vice president for on-field operations, before ultimately deciding to accept his punishment.

'I thought I was going get in front of a neutral arbitrator, but I wasn't,' Scherzer told reporters. 'It was going to be through MLB. Given that process, I wasn't going to come out on top.'

He became the third pitcher suspended by MLB since the crackdown on sticky substances started in June 2021. Seattle's Héctor Santiago was penalized that June 28 and Arizona's Caleb Smith that August 24, also 10-game penalties.

All three inspections that led to suspensions involved umpire Phil Cuzzi.

Max Scherzer has been ejected after he got into an argument with the umpire over his glove pic.twitter.com/YqwYnUdiI3
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[ethunder]

Definitely wondering if it’s only rosin.

[reickholt]

He should have been a Yankee. They'd have just made him wash his hands and come back later.

[bakemeister52]

Why do they have to cheat! Now they say they are watching Cole and German of the Yankees! They have been cheating for years with gloves!

Bake

[Devlin]

whitey Ford would do it all the time. Elli would put a nick/cut on the ball using his shin guards, and whitey could make that ball do a few things.
didn't do t the whole game obviously, just in certain situations. (from Bouton's Ball Four)