MLB | Foreign Substances

You can't have that pine tar in your glove....

Outro Song | Julian Calor - "Cell"

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[AzariahWolf]

Gotta love the Yank's announcers, "I dunno why you gotta follow the rules, man, especially when it involves a dirtbag on our team."

[toastertoaststoast]

Remind me never to eat pancakes before a baseball game

[Ranger]

The legendary Gaylord Perry once said "I've never used any foreign substance. I only used American"

[AeroRanger]

I hate how Smith didn't take his ejection like a man. He gets caught, so he cusses out at the Braves dugout. Hey, ding-dong, how about you don't cheat next time?

[livingroom]

Imagine getting caught cheating and then getting mad after 😂

[benscovil]

I love how the YES network defends Pineda saying everyone does it yet if it were a Sox player they'd say he was a disgrace to the game

[tonycomplexmusic]

I felt bad for the bat boy of the Royals. They were yelling at him to get the bat cause they knew the bat had too much pine tar.

[evanites]

13:31 *upbeat organ plays while player is furious*

[TyphoidBryan]

ProTip: Give your catcher the pine tar. When he tosses back a pitch, he'll have a lil' bit of the ol' grip grease prepped for you! That'll fool the umps!

[ElectricStrider]

"If the umps are watching me close, I rub a little jalapeno in my nose and get it running."
~ Ed Harris, Pitcher, Cleveland Indians

[josemacias]

the Yankees announcers are so biased they're trying to justify a cheater

[jackmurphy]

I love how Pineda is using a substance and they're still losing

[cjstraka]

0:06 lady yells “he’s got that pine tar” 😂

[afukneename]

8:18
Is that guy just smacking his ...cup

[eauhomme]

In the Pine Tar game, one thing the announcers got wrong: The rule had nothing to do with pine tar hitting the trademark. The rule was (and is) that you can have pine tar a maximum of 18 inches from the knob of the bat. When they laid the bat across home plate, they were doing so because home plate is 17 inches across, so they could see if the pine tar exceeded that by an inch.

The rule still exists--you cannot use a bat with more than 18 inches of pine tar. Now, though, the penalty is only that the batter has to get a new bat. He is not out for using an illegal bat.

[joelsterling]

The ump goes out to the mound and sees orange cheeto dust all over his fingers...."you're outta here!"

[icyyyv_]

You don’t realize how relevant this has become again

[AK-ACEx]

It's so funny hearing the announcers pretending like they don't know about the pine tar😂😂

[GhostDrummer]

Baseball bat used by George Brett in the Pine Tar Incident on July 24, 1983

On July 24, 1983, with the Royals playing against the Yankees at Yankee Stadium, in the top of the ninth inning with two out, Brett hit a go-ahead two-run homer off of Goose Gossage to put the Royals up 5–4. After the home run, Yankees manager Billy Martin cited to the umpires a rule, stating that any foreign substance on a bat could extend no further than 18 inches from the knob.

The umpires measured the amount of pine tar, a legal substance used by hitters to improve their grip, on Brett's bat; the pine tar extended about 24 inches. The home plate umpire, Tim McClelland, signaled Brett out, ending the game as a Yankees win. Brett charged out of the dugout directly toward McClelland, and had to be physically restrained by two umpires and Royals manager Dick Howser.

The Royals protested the game, and American League president Lee MacPhail upheld the protest, reasoning that the bat should have been excluded from future use, but the home run should not have been nullified. Amid much controversy, the game was resumed on August 18, 1983, from the point of Brett's home run, and ended with a Royals win.

[cerealissoup]

8:19 look at the guy on the side. Wtf is he doing?