Awww man, c’mon! Why does it have to be my Yankees?! SMH. Yankees pitcher Michael Pineda was ejected in the second inning last night against the Red Sox for having pine tar on his neck. Check out what happened & what everyone had to say about it after the game…
Via ESPN:
…but said he did it not to cheat, rather to ensure he did not hit anyone with an errant pitch. “It was a really cold night and in the first inning I (couldn’t) feel the ball,” Pineda said. “I don’t want to like hit anybody so I decided to use it.”
“I did it by myself,” Pineda said. “Nobody helped me with it.”
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“I think we’re all embarrassed,” Yankees GM Brian Cashman said. “We as a group are embarrassed that this has taken place. I think Michael is embarrassed. It’s just obviously a bad situation, and it clearly forced the opponents’ hand to do something that I’m sure they didn’t want to do, but they had no choice but to do. Obviously we’ll deal with the ramifications of that now.”
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“He’s a young kid,” Girardi said of the 25-year-old Pineda. “I don’t think he’s trying to do anything to cheat, I think he’s trying to just go out there and compete. He used bad judgment tonight. He’ll admit to that.”
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