Don't worry. We're about to throw some blame Michael Pineda's way. He deserves it for getting himself involved in yet another silly little controversy involving pine tar. But I think it's also time for us to ask whether Major League Baseball should put
The last time Yankees pitcher Michael Pineda faced the Red Sox—on April 10—he clearly had pine tar on his hand. No one on the Red Sox brought it up, and the Yankees won. Tonight, Pineda again used pine tar, slapping
Red Sox manager John Farrell complained to umpires, who then checked Pineda for foreign substances and found the pine tar on his neck, according to Joel Sherman of the New York Post. As you can see below, home plate
As you might know, Yankees pitcher Michael Pineda got booted from a game last night for rocking a swatch of pine tar on the back of his neck, in full view of everyone. The weird thing is that it wasn't the fact that Pineda used
Pineda later admitted that he had applied pine tar to his neck after allowing two runs in the bottom of the first inning, saying that he was having difficulty controlling his pitches and that he did not want to hit any batters on a cold evening. "I