KANSAS CITY - When FOX cameras were plugged in and the generators were working, they caught a close-up of the right leg of Salvador Perez in Game 1.
On the shin pad of the Kansas City Royals catcher was what looked like a pine tar substance.
Is use of pine tar against the rules?
It is and it isn’t.
It is for pitchers and it isn’t for catchers.
Yet, what if there is enough goup on the ball by the time Perez threw it back to Edinson Volquez to help with movement on his pitches?