Max Scherzer’s hand became a sticking point for umpires during Wednesday’s game in Los Angeles.
after home plate umpire Dan Bellino found his hand to be “the stickiest it has been since I’ve been inspecting hands.”
“When he came out to start the bottom of the fourth inning, that’s when we realized the level of stickiness on his hand was much worse than it was even in the initial inspection that had taken place two innings prior,” Bellino said. “So following the proper protocols, Phil immediately recognized it. Phil then asked me to come in to verify that the hand was too sticky. Both Phil and I touched his hand.
Mets starting pitcher Max Scherzer is ejected by first base umpire Phil Cuzzi as home plate umpire Dan Bellino and manager New York Mets manager Buck Showalter watch.Scherzer could be heard on the SNY broadcast saying it was rosin — the legal powder used by pitchers to help keep their hands dry and somewhat tacky —“I knew I was going to get checked in the fourth,” Scherzer told reporters. “So I have to be an absolute idiot to try to do anything when I am coming back out for the fourth.
“I said this to Buck and to Max, it really didn’t matter to us what it is,” Cuzzi said. “All we know [is] that it’s far stickier than anything that we’ve felt, certainly today and anything this year. So in that case, we felt as though he had two chances to clean it up. … He was saying that it’s rosin.”“We have a universal rosin bag that Major League Baseball provides that we inspect before every game,” he said.
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