NEW YORK — Major League Baseball pumped up security for its game balls this season in the wake of the Tom Brady flap.
Starting this year, an MLB representative watches the baseballs while a clubhouse assistant carries them from the umpires' room to the field.
And if the supply runs low during the game, an MLB security person is now sent to retrieve more from the umps' room.
In the past, a ball boy or ball girl did those jobs alone.
"We can't deflate 'em," Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia said Sunday. "It's precautionary, I guess.