Drew Smith's night ended before it started.
Smith referenced Scherzer' ban when discussing his ejection.
"I’m sure they’re gonna come out with a statement saying something similar to Max’s like 'stickiest hands ever or whatnot,'" Smith continued."But my hands weren’t sticky. I had everybody checking as I was coming off the field. I don’t know if that was caught on camera.” Scherzer said after the game that he was among those who checked Smith's hands and didn't feel anything. He pleaded Smith's case and argued that it's unfair to eject a pitcher before he throws a pitch.
"I mean, he hasn’t even thrown a pitch," Scherzer said."How do you know he’s gonna increase his spin rate? You don’t know that. It’s an ejection on what the umpire thinks, so until he’s actually guilty of actually increasing his spin rate or doing something at all, how can we sit here and say that?” Scherzer also called the state of sticky-substance enforcement a"dangerous issue." He hit Giancarlo Stanton in the elbow with a pitch in the third inning. He said that if pitchers can't get a grip on the ball because of enforcement, there's an increased risk of losing control and pitches hitting batters in the head.
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