


Yankees starter Domingo German won’t appeal the automatic 10-game suspension for Tuesday night’s sticky-stuff ejection, with the ban beginning Wednesday according to The Post’s Jon Heyman.
It wasn’t German’s first encounter with a sticky-stuff controversy this season — he was asked to remove rosin and wash his hands following the third inning of an April start against the Twins before still having some upon returning for the fourth — but this marks the first suspension.
He’ll also be assessed a fine.
German was ejected in the bottom of the fourth inning in the Yankees’ 6-3 victory over the Blue Jays, when he didn’t pass a sticky-stuff examination before returning to the mound.
Crew chief James Hoye, the same one present for German’s start against the Twins last month, called German’s hands shiny and ““stickiest hand I’ve ever felt” at Rogers Centre, according to a pool reporter.
That prompted the ejection, and that ejection led to the suspension and fine, removing another starter from a Yankees rotation that has already been thinned due to a plethora of injuries to Luis Severino, Carlos Rodon and Frankie Montas.
German becomes the second pitcher from New York to earn a sticky-stuff suspension this year, as Mets ace Max Scherzer was suspended 10 games for a similar ejection against the Dodgers in April.
At the time, home plate umpire Dan Bellino said that Scherzer’s hands were the “the stickiest it has been since I’ve been inspecting hands.”
It appears that he now has some competition with German.