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Baseball

Pineda tossed for pine tar

New York Yankees pitcher Michael Pineda was ejected for using pine tar in Wednesday's 5-1 loss to the Boston Red Sox -less than two weeks after appearing to get away with using a foreign substance in another game against Boston. The right-hander was thrown out in the second inning when plate umpire Gerry Davis found the substance on the right side of Pineda's neck after Red Sox manager John Farrell asked him to check. Pineda walked from the mound without protest. Both Pineda and Davis confirmed after the game that the substance was pine tar. "When it's that obvious, something has got to be said," Farrell said in the Red Sox clubhouse. "Our awareness was heightened, given what we had seen in the past."