Five relievers came through and Brandon Nimmo went 5 for 5 in the Mets' victory over the slumping Dodgers.
The umpires still ejected him Wednesday, telling the Mets ace his hand was too sticky to possibly be legal.
"Yes, when you use sweat and rosin, your hand is sticky," Scherzer said."I don't get how I get ejected when I'm in front of MLB officials doing exactly what you want and being deemed my hand is too sticky when I'm using legal substances." "As far as stickiness, level of stickiness, this was the stickiest that it has been since I've been inspecting hands, which now goes back three seasons," Bellino said."Compared to the first inning, the level of stickiness, it was so sticky that when we touched his hand, our fingers were sticking to his hand. And whatever was on there remained on our fingers afterwards for a couple innings, where you could still feel that the fingers were sticking together.
Mets manager Buck Showalter noted that Cuzzi is"certainly a guy that's known for" throwing out pitchers. Cuzzi was on the crews that ejected Seattle's Héctor Santiago and Arizona's Caleb Smith in 2021, the only pitchers suspended for sticky substances since MLB's crackdown began. Both pitchers adamantly denied wrongdoing.
Nimmo hit a two-run homer — his first of the season — off Noah Syndergaard in the fifth inning, and he singled and scored on Mark Canha's two-run double in the ninth to complete his second career five-hit game.
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