The last time that Michael Pineda and the New York Yankees played the Boston Red Sox in New York, there was a picture of pine tar on Pineda’s hand. A little later in the game it had disappeared.
The Red Sox made no issue of it that night, perhaps because Clay Buchholz was pitching. Buchholz has in the past been accused of using something on the baseball.
Nonetheless, you’d think there would be no way that Pineda would do it again? Or even do it again against the Red Sox?
Well he did.
During the 2nd inning of Wednesday night’s game with Grady Sizemore at the plate, John Farrell came out to the plate and asked home plate umpire Gerry Davis to check Pineda.
A routine search turned up nothing initially. Then Davis took off his gloves and checked Pineda’s neck where he found pine tar and proceeded to eject him from the game.
The look on Derek Jeter‘s face tells it all.
