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Best example of Major League Baseball’s weird code

The pine tar incident

By Mitch Perry on Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 8:00 pm

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MLB rules state that a pitcher can’t have pine tar in his glove. But when Rays reliever Joel Peralta was busted in a game in Washington for committing exactly that transgression against his former teammates, the story in Tampa Bay wasn’t about how Peralta was caught red-handed, It was about who ratted him out to the Nationals. WTF?