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In one of the least creative ways<\/a> Yankee pitcher Mike Pineda was accused of using pine tar to aid his pitching against the Boston Red Socks.\u00a0 Clearly visible on all television screens, the dark smudge on Pineda\u2019s neck led to his ejection for use of pine tar\u2014in direct violation of\u00a0MLB\u2019s Rule 8.02<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While we wait to see the final result of this infringement, check out this collection<\/a> of nine other famous MLB pitchers who were caught cheating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In one of the least creative ways Yankee pitcher Mike Pineda was accused of using pine tar to aid his pitching against the Boston Red Socks.\u00a0 Clearly visible on all television screens, the dark smudge on Pineda\u2019s neck led to his ejection for use of pine tar\u2014in direct violation of\u00a0MLB\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1154,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/1154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}