Max Scherzer was becoming unglued on the field, and it’s hard to blame him. While he was booted from a game and is hit with an “automatic” 10-game ban, that isn’t close to Scherzer’s real issue now.

ATLANTA — The question for Charlie Morton was about pitchers using sticky stuff, a subject back in the headlines after Major League Baseball suspended Mets reliever Drew Smith 10 games on Wednesday, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cheating in baseball is as old as the game itself, and pitchers’ modifying the ball’s surface is part of that long history. Adding ...

CLEARWATER, Fla. — For the third straight season, Major League Baseball is gearing up to address the use of “sticky stuff” by pitchers across the sport. Major-league sources told The Athletic that ...

On Monday, MLB will begin a dramatic, strict crackdown on foreign substances. The sudden removal of sticky stuff from pitchers’ hands across the game, after most used it without worry for years — if ...

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 ...

The Yankees are walking a fine line when it comes to their sticky stuff regulation. Their solution to the problem is simple in theory but difficult in execution. It’s one thing for pitchers to be ...