A dying clock and the fear of striking out caused a panicked Willson Contreras to do something that he instantly regretted in the bottom of the third inning of the Cardinals’ 5-1 win over the Twins on ...

Pitchers used pine tar for a better grip on pitches, but the fad grew to the point Major League Baseball cracked down on foreign substances in 2021. Pitchers were becoming too dominant with the ...

“I don’t try to put (pine tar or sticky spray) on my (bat), but it was disgusting. It was a bad taste." Now that's certainly what Contreras planned to do in the at-bat. While this is the ...

"That was a bad taste, really bad," Contreras said after the game. "I don't try to put [pine tar or sticky spray] on my [bat], but it was disgusting. It was a bad taste." The Cardinals catcher ...

York High baseball player Trevor Evans, ejected from his team’s 7-6 loss at Poquoson on Friday by an umpire for excessive pine tar on his bat handle, should have been allowed to continue playing ...

It included a version of the “Pine Tar Incident,” similar to the famed 1983 game between the New York Yankees and Kansas City Royals at Yankee Stadium. York (1-3), which trailed 5-0 after an ...