9/9/2023 0 Comments Bullfrog sunscreen rosin![]() ![]() The rosin doesn't work unless there's moisture with it. He was actually using that stuff to keep a grip. You want it to be almost like - not spit, but water. If that was what Clay was trying to do, he would have been doing the opposite of what he actually did. You cheat by getting the ball moist and wet. You can't cheat by getting an extra grip on the ball. ![]() You needed something, and it was to keep a grip. I had no saliva, I had cotton mouth in that stadium all the time. ![]() It is the hardest and the driest environment - for me it was - in the big leagues. "I would tell you there is no ballpark harder to grip a baseball in than the SkyDome. And I did it for the same reasons Clay did it," Schilling said. Schilling spoke to Mut & Merloni on WEEI last week, admitting he used BullFrog in his own games, and explaining why Buchholz might have in Toronto: Read More: Pitchers doctoring baseballs, but is it cheating?Įnter Curt Schilling, former Red Sox hurler and likely future Hall of Famer. That, plus the fact their own pitchers are using the BullFrog concoction likely helps, too. Pitchers don't think it's cheating, as it's essentially their version of pine tar - what hitters use to improve grip on the bat - and hitters don't mind because they approve of anything that increases their chances of not being hit in the head by a baseball. It doesn't add movement like a scuffed ball, and is so predominant that it was likened to being as common in baseball as sunflower seeds by Passan. Shorter Passan: pitchers - reportedly including the likes of the Rangers' Yu Darvish - combine BullFrog spray-on sunscreen with rosin in order to improve their grip on the baseball. After much gnashing of teeth on both sides - much of which came from a lack of evidence from the accusers other than the "I know it when I see it" defense, but Boston's own media let loose, too - Jeff Passan of Yahoo! wrote a detailed look on what it is pitchers do to baseballs, and what very well might have been what Clay Buchholz was doing. In case you've somehow missed all of this over the past couple of weeks: Clay Buchholz dominated the Blue Jays in Toronto to cap off a terrific April, and was then accused of cheating and throwing spitballs by Jays' radio personnel Jack Morris and Dirk Hayhurst. ![]()
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