Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cheating in baseball is as old as the game itself, and pitchers’ modifying the ball’s surface is part of that long history. Adding ...

When Mets closer Edwin Diaz was ejected on Sunday night before throwing a pitch, he became the third Mets pitcher in the last year and change to fall victim to MLB's arbitrary sticky stuff rules. The ...

ATLANTA — The question for Charlie Morton was about pitchers using sticky stuff, a subject back in the headlines after Major League Baseball suspended Mets reliever Drew Smith 10 games on Wednesday, ...

The Mets, losers of nine of 10, managed to lose more than a game Tuesday. The Mets’ predicament has gotten stickier after Drew Smith was ejected when trying to enter a game the Mets lost at Citi Field ...

The attention on baseball’s sticky stuff has skyrocketed the last few weeks, first with the news that Major League Baseball plans to dramatically increase its enforcement of the existing rules against ...

New York Mets co-ace Max Scherzer is presently serving a 10-game suspension for the use of a banned grip-enhancing substance during his most recent start against the Dodgers. During that start, ...

New York Mets closer Edwin Diaz served a 10-game suspension earlier this season after he was ejected for "sticky stuff," a rule prohibiting players from using any foreign substance to "discolor or ...

The Yankees are walking a fine line when it comes to their sticky stuff regulation. Their solution to the problem is simple in theory but difficult in execution. It’s one thing for pitchers to be ...

DUNEDIN, Fla. — The memo on “sticky stuff,” to all 30 clubs was a clear warning to pitchers everywhere. • Inspections of pitchers would be “more vigilant and unpredictable” than in the past. • ...