While Astros starter Ronel Blanco denied using an illegal substance, umpires said it was clear there was a sticky substance on his glove, which was confiscated and will be sent to the commissioner's office for examination.
Third base umpire Laz Diaz ejected Blanco after a check of his glove before he threw a pitch in the fourth inning. The umpires, Blanco and Houston manager Joe Espada stood at the mound for a couple of minutes discussing the issue before the right-hander was ejected.
"I felt something inside the glove," Bacchus said."It was the stickiest stuff I've felt on a glove since we've been doing this for a few years now.""Everybody checked the glove to make sure we all had the same thing and he had to get ejected because he had a foreign substance on his glove," Diaz said."We don't determine that," he said."We just felt it was sticky, sticky enough that our fingers got stuck.
"What I told them is: 'If you found something sticky in my glove you should also check my hands because it should also be on my hand,'" Blanco said."'Just check my hand,' and he didn't."
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