Washington Nationals Ace Max Scherzer Looks Like He Wants To Kill The Umpire Who Had To Check Him For Sticky Substances

Washington Nationals star pitcher Max Scherzer is always a guy who wear his emotions on his sleeve. And he wasn’t having any of the routine “sticky substance” search during his start on Tuesday night.

The MLB has incorporated a new rule where umpires will check in on pitchers throughout a game to see if he has any foreign substances on his glove, hat, belt, etc.

Max Scherzer had a classic response when he was checked on.

Max Scherzer might actually murder someone during a sticky search. pic.twitter.com/ipMX82FrfH

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Yeah, I would be scared out of my damn mind if I had to walk up to Max Scherzer and check him for cheating. The dude is terrifying, especially when he’s taking the ball for a start.

Scherzer has spoken against the ramped up effort the MLB has put in place to ban all substances, even something as simple as pine tar or sunscreen.

“Pitchers want to have that tack and hitters want pitchers to have that tack to prevent serious injury. That’s the delicate balance that we’re having to play with,” Max Scherzer said, using the word “tack” as a stand-in for grip via The Washington Post. “We understand it’s gone beyond just pine tar, that there’s been bad actors throughout the game. Teams have been bad actors in this in trying to find ways to create substances that are beyond just pine tar to try to actually influence spin rate instead of trying to use a substance to keep the ball from slipping out of the pitcher’s hands.

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“In a lot of players’ minds, there’s a big difference between the two. So that’s where the issue’s at.”

Max Scherzer is also pissed off that Rob Manfred and the rest of the MLB have taken the players out of the discussion before they go ahead and implement new rules.

“The players should have a say in this. Unfortunately, I don’t think we will,” he said. “It just appears that MLB is going to do whatever they want with this.”

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