Diaz never got to throw a pitch Sunday night.
5–2 on Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN. With a three run lead in the bottom of the ninth, the Mets brought in closer Edwin Diaz in a save situation, but he never got to throw a pitch. After warming up umpires decided they didn't like something on his hands and ejected him.
Diaz appeared to have something on his right hand when a camera zoomed in during the group discussion that took place right before he was ejected. Since umpires gave him his glove back before he left the field, we can presume that there wasn't anything suspicious there.Diaz was replaced by Drew Smith, who probably thought he had the night off moments before he recorded the first two outs of the inning.
Mets closer Edwin Díaz is ejected before he throws a pitch on Sunday Night Baseball after a foreign substance check in the bottom of the 9th. ⚾️📺🎙️Stephen Douglas is a Senior Writer on the Breaking & Trending News Team at Sports Illustrated. He has been in journalism and media since 2008, and now casts a wide net with coverage across all sports. Stephen spent more than a decade with The Big Lead and has previously written for Uproxx and The Sporting News.
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