On Wednesday , Yankees starter Michael Pineda wasejected in the second inningof a biz against the Red Sox for displaying a " foreign substance " that looked an awful plenty like pine seafarer on his neck . Less than two weeks before , the internet had buzzed with outrage — and despite that anyone would bother with outrage — after arbiter summon ignorance in fail to take action against Pineda ’s pine seafarer on the wrist in another beginning against Boston . At the clock time , the world-wide consensus was that a trivial sunscreen or hair colloidal gel or , yes , pine tar to give a pitcher better grip in chilly condition is best ignored — despite Official Rule 8.02 , which put forward : The pitcher shall not apply a extraneous substance of any kind to the Lucille Ball . But Wednesday ’s transgression was just too flagrant to turn a unreasoning eye and now Pineda face a reprieve that should have him miss at least two starts .
But all this got us wondering : When it ’s not slather on the peel of Major League twirler , what ’s the point of pine gob ? In fact , what evenispine pitch ?
To the latter interrogation first : pine seaman is brownish , thick , sticky liquidity acquire by eminent - temperature distillate of pine wood . Itoriginated in Scandinaviahundreds of years ago where it was used to weatherproof and preserve wooden ship and even Mexican valium made of natural roughage . Maritime use open from Sweden throughout Europe and finally to the British Colonies in America . It is still used to this Clarence Day to treat wooden article of furniture that may be disclose to the elements .
Pine gob has also developed several medicative USA for both man and animals . In a scoop it is said totreat minor skin ailments — everything from eczema and psoriasis to blizzard , poison Hedera helix and insect raciness ( although a argumentation rages on in the lifelike scoop community about the bearing of carcinogenic creosote in pine mariner ) . As an antiseptic , it can be used to treat minor abrasion and scratches but is more popular in a veterinary context , oftenapplied to sawhorse ' hoovesto fight infection and keep hooves from cracking .
As the Pineda example makes clean , the same yielding for suitcase are not extended to mound , as it is think to give them a competitive advantage in bedevil stiff breaking Lucille Ball .
