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Managers support pitchers getting better grip on balls (The Associated Press)

Yahoo! Sports | May 26, 2015

Related Topics: Pitcher, Pine tar, New York Yankees, Joe Girardi, Ned Yost

NEW YORK (AP) -- Yankees manager Joe Girardi thinks Major League Baseball should avoid the sticky situation of pitchers being caught using foreign substances to get better grips on the ball by providing the tacky stuff for them.

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''I really believe there should be a substance behind the mound that every pitcher is allowed to use,'' Girardi said Tuesday.

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