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New York Mets closer Edwin Díaz was ejected before throwing a pitch Sunday after umpires determined he had an illegal sticky substance on his hand.
The embattled right-hander is now facing an automatic 10-game suspension for violating MLB's ban on sticky substances. He has the right to appeal the discipline.
The Mets had brought in Díaz to protect a 5-2 lead in the bottom of the ninth, but second base umpire Brian Walsh didn't like what he saw during the routine hand check when a reliever enters a game. After a tense back-and-forth with Díaz and Mets manager Carlos Mendoza, crew chief Vic Carapazza ejected the pitcher.
After the game, Díaz insisted that he had done nothing wrong.
"I use the same thing always," Díaz said, via ESPN. "I rub rosin, swear, and I put my hand on the dirt a little bit because I need to have some grip on the ball. So that's what I was explaining to them. But they said it was too much stick. I understood, but at the end of the day I was using rosin, sweat and put my hand on the dirt."
Carapazza, however, wasn't buying that argument.
"It definitely wasn't rosin and sweat," Carapazza said after the game, via ESPN's Jesse Rogers. "We've checked thousands of these. I know what that feeling is. This was very sticky."
Díaz's ejection left Mendoza needing to call in reliever Drew Smith to cover the ninth inning. Smith got the first two outs before allowing a single to Cubs shortstop Dansby Swanson. Mendoza then brought in Jake Diekman, who finished the game with a strikeout of Patrick Wisdom. The final held at 5-2.
It might have been Díaz's first ejection of the season, but it's not the first time things have gone badly after he entered the game. The $102 million man holds a 4.70 ERA this season, with four blown saves in 11 opportunities, and has seen himself both demoted from the closer role and placed on the injured list with a shoulder injury.
Since returning from the IL, Díaz had posted three straight scoreless appearances for the first time since April 4, but he's now facing another step backward.
This is Díaz's first season back after missing all of the 2023 season with a torn patellar tendon sustained in the World Baseball Classic. He has only one more season left on his Mets contract after this season, with a salary of $21.5 million, but he holds player options for 2025 and 2026 at $18.5 million each.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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