Major League Baseball pitchers will be ejected and suspended for 10 games for using illegal foreign substances to doctor baseballs.
Starting Monday, major and minor league umpires will start regular checks of all pitchers, even if opposing managers don’t request inspections.
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Pitchers will be responsible for foreign substances found on catchers and position players. A position player will not be ejected for possession of a foreign substance unless the umpire determines the player was applying it to a ball to aid a pitcher.
The crackdown comes during record strikeouts and a league batting average at a more than half-century low.
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