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Former MLB starter Curt Schilling could not believe New York Mets<\/a> starter Max Scherzer was tossed from his outing on Wednesday afternoon against the Los Angeles Dodgers for what umpires believed was him cheating with a foreign substance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And Schilling doesn\u2019t want to see Scherzer banned a single game.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Scherzer said, “I swear on my kids\u2019 lives,” that the stickiness that umpire Phil Cuzzi felt on his hand in between innings was the mixture of sweat and rosin from the rosin bag that MLB allows behind the mound each game for pitchers. Scherzer was told to fix the problem that Cuzzi had with the stickiness by washing off his hand with alcohol, which was done in front of an MLB official<\/a>. He even got a new glove because Cuzzi thought that was too sticky as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Scherzer went back out to pitch the third inning but was ejected before he could go out to the mound for the fourth inning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Schilling couldn\u2019t believe it.<\/p>\n

“Phil Cuzzi\u2019s a veteran umpire,” he began on OutKick\u2019s “The Curt Schilling Baseball Show.” “I\u2019m blown away by the fact that they didn\u2019t understand that whole concept to any degree. It kind of makes sense because umpires don\u2019t use rosin, and they\u2019re probably not around it a lot, and they probably look at it a lot less than you think. The fact of the matter is this is another example of the thought process behind a rule being incoherent.”<\/p>\n

METS’ MAX SCHERZER SAYS HE ONLY HAD SWEAT AND ROSIN ON HIS HANDS: \u2018I SWEAR ON MY KIDS\u2019 LIVES’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

MLB\u2019s crackdown on sticky stuff for pitchers brought about these between-innings checks, of which Scherzer initially was not a fan (he previously showed up an umpire by sarcastically going to unbuckle his pants during one of his first in-game checks). Here\u2019s what MLB states is the rule behind the use of rosin.<\/p>\n

“Player use of rosin always must be consistent with the requirements and expectations of the official baseball rules,” the rule book reads. “When used excessively or otherwise misapplied, i.e. to gloves or other parts of the uniform, rosin may be determined by the umpires to be a prohibited foreign substance, the use of which may subject a player to ejection and discipline.”<\/p>\n

Cuzzi clearly thought it was excessive use, but Schilling also doesn\u2019t blame Cuzzi for how he reacted. MLB\u2019s ruling is too broad in his mind.<\/p>\n

“This feels very liberal in a sense. There is no definition there,” Schilling said of the rule. “The ambiguity there is intentional and on purpose. So, the umpires, I don\u2019t blame them for how they act or react. They\u2019re not really given a set of rules. What is consistent usage within the rules? There\u2019s no definitive rule around it.”<\/p>\n

SNY reported Thursday that “everyone in baseball knows” Scherzer is going to get some type of suspension for his ejection. Schilling is hoping that\u2019s not the case.<\/p>\n

“A horrible decision that I would be stunned if he\u2019d [be] banned even a game simply because he was using a substance available to him to the best of his ability to use it,” he said.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Scherzer divulging his side of the story following the game.<\/p>\n

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“After the second inning, my hand, it was a little clumpy from the rosin. That\u2019s why it was clumpy. Phil [Cuzzi] told me to wash it off. So, I washed it off. Came back out there after the third, I washed it with alcohol, and when I went back out there, the alcohol for a little bit there can be sticky in rosin. That can happen. So, he\u2019s like, \u2018That\u2019s too sticky. You need to go back in there and wash it off again and reapply the rosin.\u2019”<\/p>\n

“And so I did that, and at the same time, he thought my glove had too much rosin on it. And I was like, \u2018OK, if that\u2019s a problem, there\u2019s nothing going on.\u2019 He\u2019s like, \u2018You need a new glove.\u2019 OK, so I come back out, pitched the third and knew I was going to get checked in the fourth, so I would have to be an absolute idiot to try to do anything when I\u2019m coming back out there in the fourth.”<\/p>\n

“After that third inning, I\u2019m in front of the MLB official that\u2019s underneath here. I wash my hand with alcohol in front of the official. I then apply rosin and then I grab sweat. When I then go back out there, and Phil Cuzzi says my hand\u2019s too sticky. Yes, when you use sweat and rosin, your hand is sticky. But I don\u2019t get how I get ejected when I\u2019m in front of an MLB official doing exactly what you want and being deemed my hand is too sticky when I\u2019m using [a] legal substance. I do not understand that.”<\/p>\n

Umpire Dan Bellino addressed the situation to a pool reporter, per MLB.com, saying Scherzer\u2019s hand “was so sticky that when we touched his hand, our fingers were sticking to his hand. And whatever was on there remained on our fingers afterwards for a couple innings.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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