First, let's make one thing clear. I'm not defending New York Yankees pitcher Michael Pineda's recent illegal use of pine tar during a game against the Boston Red Sox, where the substance sat on his ...

HOUSTON — Indians closer Chris Perez said Friday he believes there are pitchers on every team who use pine tar and other substances to grip the ball. "If before every game, if they stopped and checked ...

Jerry Reuss readily admits having used Stickum and other substances to help improve his grip on the ball during his 22-year big league pitching career. But the colorful left-hander still maintains he ...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 08: Yusei Kikuchi #18 of the Seattle Mariners pitches against the New York Yankees during their game at Yankee Stadium on May 08, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Al ...

In early 2019, Major League Baseball visited spring training camps with a new, buzzed-about toy: a sticky baseball. The baseballs, which weren’t the exact ones used (and often hailed by pitchers) in ...

Michael Pineda, as every single baseball fan on Twitter Thursday night noticed, had some sort of brown goop on his hand during the first few innings of the Yankees eventual 4-1 win over the Red Sox in ...

NEW YORK – Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig said the sport will wait until after the season to study whether the rule preventing pitchers from using pine tar should be changed. New York ...

Photos and video circulating on social media seem to show that Chris Archer was using pine tar despite his denials. Archer was part of a bench-clearing skirmish between his Pittsburgh Pirates and ...

Outspoken Cleveland Indians closer Chris Perez said Friday he believes there are pitchers on every team who use pine tar and other substances to manipulate the ball. ''If before every game if they ...

BOSTON -- Michael Pineda didn't make an excuse this time. He didn't say there was dirt on his neck and pretend like nothing happened. This time he admitted his mistake. "It's pine tar," he told ...

Davey Johnson says Joe Maddon should ''read the rulebook.'' Maddon says the rulebook shouldn't always rule in the ''self-policing'' world of major league baseball — and that if anyone was cheating, it ...