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Originally Posted by APujols5
It's too late tonight and I'm too lazy to read everyone else's comments, but all the same here's my 2 cents....
I'd bet my life it was pine tar. I've seen it quite a few times in my years of playing ball. and I don't care what anyone has to say, having had pine tar on my hands in the past. Just because he washed off his hand and the spot appears to be gone? doesn't mean the affect is gone. To completely remove pine tar from your hands, you would have to wash multiple times. The umpires totally blew the call on it, Rogers should have been immediately ejected from the game.
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From what I can gather, it was LaRussa's responsibility to ask the umpires to inspect Rogers' hand. LaRussa even said he brought it up to the umpire and basically asked the ump to tell Rogers to wash it off, and if that didn't work, he'd take it further.
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Originally Posted by Jayson Stark's article on espn.com
"Now," La Russa said, "I have a decision to make, and I decided that I was not going to be part of the BS where I was going to ask the umpire to go to the mound and undress the pitcher. Now, what was I going to do? I alerted him. I said, 'I hope it gets fixed. If it doesn't get fixed, then I'll take the next step.' "
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Don't blame the umps for failing to thoroughly inspect Rogers; blame LaRussa.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playof...t&lid=tab1pos1