Welcome back to Nationals Park, Joel Peralta.
"It was a rumor that...he liked a little pine tar."
(Davey Johnson, via MASN/postgame, 6/19/2012)"It was kind of a p***y move to go out there and do that under those circumstances. I like the word p***y move."
(Joe Maddon, via @JamesWagnerWP, 6/19/2012)
Joel Peralta's glove was confiscated before the start of the bottom of the 8th Tuesday night; apparently Peralta was ejected after a foreign substance was found on (or in) his glove. Pine tar! Before he even threw a pitch.
More quotes from Davey's postgame presser:
Q: So where does that rumor come from?
A: Well, he pitched here. I don't think it's a secret.
Q: So someobody within the operation had an idea that was going on.
A: Yeah, I didn't just make it up. Or dream it up. There was conversations before the game. He was out there. And I was talking to some of the guys, and I said how'd we let this guy get away...and one thing led to another...and I got more information than I probably needed.
Someone on the Nationals knew something about Peralta. McCatty? Jewett? A former teammate? Who knew? Whoever it was, Joel Peralta tipped his cap to him as he made his way off the field:
And in the top of the 9th, of course Joe Maddon had Tim Tschida check Ryan Mattheus' hat and glove, just in case he was a cheater like Peralta:
(Screencaps via MASN/TV)
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Wasn't Peralta a WWF wrestler and well-known fat guy from the bar in a prior career. He was called "The Glove" where he always hid a "foreign object" and used it whenever the referee was distracted to club or blind his opponent into submission.
Posted by: Prank Fatterson | June 19, 2012 at 10:00 PM
Don't you think it makes the Nationals look bad too. The only way they could have known he did something illegal is if he did it when he played for them.Yet did they ever alert authorities when he was their pitcher? Did they alert the team he was traded to before the trade? Nope, they only alerted the umpires when it benefited them somehow. They apparently knew more than the Rays did about this guy. Couldn't he have called Maddon in private before an incident like this? Wow! Unclassy.
Posted by: Kristi | June 19, 2012 at 10:16 PM
Unclassy? He cheated and got caught...it would have been unclassy if they didn't find anything but since they did it was justified.
Posted by: Doug | June 19, 2012 at 10:43 PM