Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez may have been using pine tar to get a better grip on the baseball during Game 1 of the World Series Tuesday night, and New York Mets manager Terry Collins has no problem with that.
At one point during Kansas City’s dramatic extra-innings win, a FOX camera zoomed in on what appeared to be Perez touching some sort of substance on his shin guard. When asked about it Wednesday, Collins made it clear he did not get worked up over it.
“I’ve seen throughout baseball, everywhere, you have it,” he told reports, per Mike Oz of Big League Stew.