Edwin Diaz isn’t planning on altering something.
The Mets’ nearer was ejected from the crew’s 5-2 win over the Cubs on Sunday evening at Wrigley Area in Chicago after umpires checked his palms for sticky substances.
Diaz was coming in to shut the sport out within the ninth inning however by no means acquired to throw a pitch.
He claimed after the sport the stickiness on his hand was merely a results of sweat and rosin and that it wasn’t any extra sticky than common.
“I feel it’s the identical [stickiness],” Diaz mentioned. “They all the time verify me, they let me pitch. However at the moment it was hotter than earlier within the season, I don’t know, they thought it was stickier, so I take the suspension.
“I’ll preserve utilizing the identical factor as a result of they didn’t discover something in my glove, my hat, my belt. I’ll preserve utilizing [the same thing].”
Diaz denied utilizing any unlawful substance.
“I used to be actually shocked as a result of I didn’t have something on my hand, my glove, my belt,” Diaz mentioned. “They all the time verify my hat, the whole lot. And so they thought that was sticky rather a lot. I mentioned ‘you can verify my hand, scent my hand,’ and so they didn’t scent something, however they threw me out of the sport.”
However crew chief Vic Carapazza was assured it was extra than simply rosin.
“It positively wasn’t rosin and sweat,” Carapazza advised a pool reporter. “We’ve checked hundreds of those. I do know what that feeling is. This was very sticky.”
Diaz will now face an computerized 10-game suspension, although he can attraction it.
The Mets can’t change him on the roster throughout the suspension, both.
“Yeah, look, we’ve been by way of rather a lot this 12 months, and we’ll discover a method to get by way of it,” supervisor Carlos Mendoza mentioned. “We’ll proceed to piece it collectively. Guys are going to need to step up. I’m fairly assured that we’ll get guys right here which are going to get us to the end line right here when he’s executed.”
