Pitchers To Be Checked 2X per Game As New Sticky Stuff Rules Start To Pan Out

Major League Baseball's crackdown on pitchers using foreign substances is coming soon to a stadium near you.

Planned crackdown on pitchers’ use of foreign substances taking shape. Story: https://t.co/rCuxjVbB9e
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) June 13, 2021

Starting pitchers would be checked by umpires twice a game at the end of innings, and relief pitchers once a game. Ideally, this will happen during commercial breaks so as not to interrupt pace of play.

Umps will be able to inspect any part of a pitcher's uniform, plus his hands and other parts of his skin.

MLB of course is hoping NOT to find any violations, so in order to avoid too many embarrassing situations they'll be giving players plenty of notice before the ramped-up checks begin.

Baseball fans were happy to weigh in with their thoughts as well:

Gerrit Cole and Trevor Bauer woke up in a cold sweat this morning
— Jack G (@jguugs) June 13, 2021

I would appreciate a crackdown on inconsistent strike zones to happen first pic.twitter.com/46Z8iicks0
— (the fully vaccinated) Churchee (@Churchee) June 13, 2021