Major League Baseball is asking umpires to make more random checks this season for pitchers using sticky substances.
FILE - Home Plate umpire Phil Cuzzi, right, checks Seattle Mariners relief pitcher Hector Santiago's hat during the fifth inning in the first baseball game of a doubleheader against the Chicago White Sox in Chicago, on June 27, 2021. Major League Baseball is making checks banned foreign substances on pitchers more random after watching its crackdown become less effective late last season.
MLB instituted regular checks last June 21 for grip aids. Seattle's Héctor Santiago was ejected on June 27 and Arizona's Caleb Smith was tossed on Aug. 18, and both received 10-game suspensions. “As a result, umpires have been instructed to be more vigilant and unpredictable in the timing and scope of their checks during the 2022 season," he said.Last season, umpires checked all starting pitchers multiple times and all relievers either at the end of his first inning or when removed, whichever occurred first. Caps, gloves and fingertips were checked.
“An umpire checking a pitcher for foreign substances will use his thumb to check for stickiness on the pitcher’s thumb, index finger, middle finger, and palm," Hill wrote.“Starting pitchers should continue to expect more than one mandatory check per game,” Hill wrote. “Each relief pitcher will be subject to at least one check when he enters the game, at the conclusion of the inning in which he entered the game, or when he is removed from the game.
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