Mets pitcher Max Scherzer will not appeal a suspension he received after being ejected from a game against the Dodgers on Wednesday.
Max Scherzer was ejected Wednesday for having a foreign substance on his hand. It was poetic justice after what happened with the Dodgers two seasons ago.Scherzer told Bellino and first base umpire Phil Cuzzi repeatedly that the stickiness was caused by “sweat and rosin, sweat and rosin,” but under baseball’s enhanced enforcement of rules prohibiting the use of foreign substances by pitchers, rosin can be considered a foreign substance if it is misapplied or excessively used.
Scherzer told reporters in San Francisco: “I thought I was gonna get in front of a neutral arbitrator but I wasn’t. It was going to be through MLB. So given that process, I really wasn’t gonna come out on top. I’m gonna follow what the Mets wanted me to do, and that was accept the suspension.
Scherzer’s suspension was the first under baseball’s enhanced sticky stuff rules since 2021, when Seattle left-hander Hector Santiago and Arizona right-hander Caleb Smith were ejected and suspended for 10 games. Cuzzi said he told Scherzer and Mets manager Buck Showalter that it didn’t matter to umpires what substance was causing the stickiness.
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