This is your Mariners News, Rumors, and Commentary Roundup for the Morning of June 28, 2021.
“Mariners left-hander Héctor Santiago was ejected from today’s game against the White Sox by home plate umpire Phil Cuzzi after a between-innings foreign substance inspection, Chelsea Janes of the Washington Post was among those to relay. Santiago’s glove was confiscated. (Ben Verlander of Fox Sports provides video of the incident). Seattle manager Scott Servais confirmed (via…”
““I kind of knew off the bat when I hit it, so I kind of knew, ‘OK, I got it,’” Trammell said. Trammell lifted Seattle to a 3-2 win in Game 1 with a go-ahead homer and a game-saving catch, both in the ninth inning, before the Mariners fell in the second game, 7-5, when the White Sox ambushed a throng of relievers filling in for Marco Gonzales, who was placed on the paternity list earlier Sunday. Then in the bottom of the inning, with a runner on first base and Mariners closer Kendall Graveman battling, Trammell tracked down a line drive from Jake Lamb deep into the left-center gap that off the bat looked like it was destined to be a walk-off homer. “We’re in Chicago, Windy City, so the wind is going all types of directions,” Trammell said.”
“So all I used was rosin.” More specifically, Santiago said he was cited for the substance being in his glove and his glove (right) hand, not for anything on his pitching hand. I don’t want this to happen to me.’ And [Cuzzi] said he just felt some stuff sticky on the inside of the glove. “I mean, they’re going to inspect it and they’re going to do all this science stuff behind it,” Santiago said. “I wasn’t using anything besides rosin,” Santiago said.”