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Here's a photo of Molina just after the ball was removed from his chest protector. There is clearly a DENT where the ball was EMBEDDED. If the ball was merely stuck by pine tar or anything else, there would not be a clear and recognizable dent in the material.
What we would see is a patch of brown pine tar on a smooth, flat surface.
Again, what makes anyone really believe that a person can control a pitch using a ball that has enough pine tar on it to stick to a chest protector after a pitch? For a ball to act in that manner, it would need to be smothered with pine tar, at the very least...and, if it IS smothered with enough to cause it to stick, how in the World could a pitcher control any single pitch.
:raises hand:
He can't.
Hard to believe I'm arguing for Molina, as I am a Cubs fan, but physics would not allow that ball to stick like that unless the seams cut deep enough into the protector's material to embed itself.
Again...look at the picture. The indentation is there. Just a freak thing. Let's get over this. Interesting to talk about, but there really is nothing to see here.
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