Major League Baseball (MLB) special pitcher Max Scherzer (38, New York Mets), who was ejected for allegedly using a foreign substance while pitching, was banned from participating in 10 games.
American media such as MLB먹튀검증.com and ESPN reported today (21st) that the MLB Secretariat imposed a 10-game ban and a fine on Scherzer at the same time.
During the game against the Los Angeles Dodgers the previous day, Scherzer was ejected after being found to have used a foreign object during an umpire’s glove inspection.
Scherzer strongly denied that it was ‘just rosin’, but the judges judged it to be a foreign substance that was banned from use.
In this game, the umpires who inspected Scherzer’s glove for the first time in the bottom of the second inning ordered Scherzer to change his glove.
Before the bottom of the 4th inning, the umpires checked Scherzer’s glove again the moment he got on the mound, checked for foreign objects, and ordered him to leave without mercy.
The MLB Secretariat explained, “Even though we warned Scherzer at the beginning of the game, including equipment replacement, it turned out that Scherzer violated the foreign substance regulation prohibited by baseball rules.”
Scherzer is the third pitcher to have been disciplined since June 2021, when the MLB Secretariat began intensively cracking down on the use of foreign substances by pitchers, following Hector Santiago (Seattle Mariners) and Caleb Smith (Arizona Diamondbacks, more than 2021).
Santiago and Smith were also given 10 game bans.
Scherzer’s side insisted that they never used foreign substances, saying that a sticky substance was created on the glove due to the combination of sweat and rosin.
In particular, the MLB Secretariat complained that it did not provide numerical values for the violation standards for sticky substances and did not explain which substances were foreign substances.