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NEW YORK — Drew Smith was a skeptic, and would throw up his hands to anyone who wanted to feel it. Show them to all four rulers. He showed them to his teammates on the field, and then to others in the dugout. Show them to a league employee stationed in the tunnel.
He showed them to everyone, realizing that there was nothing he could do to change the situation. Smith was ejected during a routine adhesive check in the seventh inning of the Mets’ 7-6 loss to the Yankees Tuesday night at Citi Field, leaving his club at a loss in the wake of the second such incident to affect the team this season.
Smith now faces a 10-day suspension that will force the Mets to play shortstop during one of the schedule’s toughest periods.
“We’re all mad about this,” said rookie pitcher Max Scherzer, who was fired and suspended under similar circumstances in April.
Scherzer’s anger stemmed from his subjective assessment of Smith: “If you feel his hand, you feel nothing.”
This was not a view shared by crew chief Bill Miller, who stopped Smith as he approached the mound to make his seventh-inning debut. When Miller’s check lasted longer than usual, the entire umpiring staff gathered around Smith, as did several Mets players, and eventually manager Buck Showalter.
After a period of debate in which every other referee checked Smith, Miller ejected him. The crew chief later told a reporter at the pool that Smith’s hands were “clearly” stickier than usual.
“I don’t know what it is,” Miller said of the substance. “I know it was sticky.”
Like Scherzer on April 19, Smith asserted that he had used nothing more than arak and rosin—two legal substances that can become illegal when used to excess. Smith doesn’t think he got that close, saying he used the same amount of rosin as he usually does, and that every other umpiring crew he’s been working with this year has agreed.
“My hands weren’t sticky,” said Smith. “The process is very arbitrary. It can change from one crew to another. I think that’s the main issue. It’s annoying for a team not to have a man for 10 days.”
If Smith is suspended on Wednesday, he will miss the rest of Subway’s series as well as series against the Cardinals, Astros and Phillies. And the loss of Smith, who has produced a 4.18 ERA over 26 appearances as one of Showalter’s starting setup men, is only part of the problem. MLB rules state that the Mets will not be able to replace Smith on their roster, meaning the struggling team will need to play short hands.
Smith said he will decide whether to appeal after speaking to union officials on Wednesday.
“You ask me what kind of challenge it is? I think that’s kind of self-explanatory,” Showalter said. “We had to use some positions tonight that we wouldn’t normally have. … It creates a completely different arrangement than what I’m used to.”
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