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, ...

When Mets closer Edwin Diaz was ejected on Sunday night before throwing a pitch, he became the third Mets pitcher in the last year and change to fall victim to MLB's arbitrary sticky stuff rules. The ...

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 ...

This is where we are now: The umpire, holding the pitcher’s hand, is trying to decide what is on that hand — and if that substance is too sticky, and perhaps even what the definition of “too sticky” ...

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.

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 ...