[Always Right]

However, if I were him, I would have left the "dirt" on there because it obviously helped in the first inning. So why remove something that is helping you, yet no illegal?

Here's a crazy theory, maybe because the umpires told him to. I know, it is a tin-foil hat theory, but I am sticking to it.

[MadeInAmerica]

Here's a crazy theory, maybe because the umpires told him to. I know, it is a tin-foil hat theory, but I am sticking to it.
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Uh, he washed his hands BEFORE the umpires called him out on it. Nothing to discuss ofter that. Again, if it was dirt, why in every game he has pitched in post season, was the "dirt" stuck on the same spot of his throwing hand?

Hang in there, you can justify it sooner or later.