Some wondered after New York Mets closer Edwin Diaz suffered a sticky-stuff ejection in the ninth inning of New York's 5-2 win at the Chicago Cubs on Sunday evening why Diaz wasn't permitted to wash ...

New York Mets closer Edwin Diaz served a 10-game suspension earlier this season after he was ejected for "sticky stuff," a rule prohibiting players from using any foreign substance to "discolor or ...

CHICAGO — Major League Baseball suspended New York Mets closer Edwin Díaz for 10 games after umpires ejected him Sunday for a sticky substance on his hand. Umpires tossed Díaz after checking his hands ...

Pitchers’ use of sticky stuff — even the performance-enhancing superglue — and the forthcoming crackdown isn’t really a cheating scandal, it’s a belated reckoning that has more to do with aesthetics ...

PITTSBURGH — Baseball poses a lot of questions that don’t have clear answers. The one the Mets have been grappling with over the last year and a half is, how sticky is too sticky? The Mets have to ...

CHICAGO — The Mets are becoming all too familiar with sticky stuff ejections. Edwin Diaz became the third Mets pitcher in a year to be ejected for sticky stuff when he was tossed after a routine check ...

New York Mets closer Edwin Díaz was ejected for "sticky stuff" prior to pitching the bottom of the ninth against the Chicago Cubs on Sunday night at Wrigley Field. Díaz's ejection for the use of a ...