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2:33 AM ET, June 6, 2021

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Sports Illustrated:
‘This Should Be the Biggest Scandal in Sports’  —  The inside story of how rampant pitch-doctoring in MLB is pumping pitchers up and deflating offenses.  —  To understand the fiasco of baseball's 2021 season, which people around the game describe as sullied by rampant cheating to a degree …
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Buster Olney / ESPN:
MLB's enhanced plans for enforcement of foreign-substance rules being finalized, with June rollout pending, sources say  —  All Major League Baseball pitchers will be checked repeatedly and randomly for foreign substances by umpires under the plan being swiftly advanced — and perhaps implemented within the next 10 days to two weeks.
Jesse Rogers / ESPN:
Sources: MLB umpires to crack down on pitchers using illegal substances on baseballs  —  After repeated efforts by Major League Baseball to dissuade pitchers from using illegal substances to get a better grip on the ball and create more spin, the league is going to crack down on the practice by giving umpires more latitude.
Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
MLB informs owners of increased crackdown on pitchers using foreign substances  —  Major League Baseball informed owners Thursday that it is engaged in the next phase of league-directed enforcement banning the use of foreign substances by pitchers — which would include 10-day suspensions …
Bobby Nightengale / USA Today:
Nick Castellanos: MLB 'doesn't care' about pitchers using foreign substances  —  ST. LOUIS - With offense down across the league this season, attention is turning to the illegal foreign substances that many pitchers are believed to use.  —  After St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Genesis Cabrera …
ESPN:
MLB bans 4 minor league pitchers for using foreign substances to doctor baseballs  —  Four minor league pitchers have been suspended this season by Major League Baseball after being caught using illegal foreign substances to doctor baseballs, signaling a stronger crackdown in the game's feeder system …
Susan Slusser / San Francisco Chronicle:
Giants designate Scott Kazmir for assignment; veteran lefty mourning best friend's death  —  Scott Kazmir's second career comeback was one of the nicer stories in the first two months of the 2021 season, but the left-hander's time with the Giants might be over, and right during a tough time for Kazmir, who just lost his best friend.
Deesha Thosar / New York Daily News:
Mets get shut out by Blake Snell, Padres in rough start to San Diego series  —  SAN DIEGO — The Mets, getting just one hit off Blake Snell, could not summon any offense or even pose as a viable threat in their 2-0 loss to the Padres at Petco Park.  —  Snell was dealing on Friday night …
Kiley McDaniel / ESPN:
Kiley McDaniel's 2021 MLB draft rankings 3.0: Two shortstops lead race to be next month's top pick  —  We're five weeks out from the 2021 MLB draft with college regionals starting Friday and high school seasons winding down or already wrapped up, so some consensus is building.
Reds News:
Injuries & Roster Moves: Blandino to IL  —  ROSTER MOVES INJURY UPDATES  —  10-day IL  —  IF Alex Blandino (broken right hand)  —  Blandino was hit on the hand by a pitch from the Cardinals' Jake Woodford during Friday's 6-4 Reds win.  Manager David Bell said it was a clean break and that the injury would not require surgery.
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Deesha Thosar / New York Daily News:
Pete Alonso helps power Mets over Diamondbacks in 9th  —  PHOENIX — The Mets have received help from an eclectic, and largely unknown, group of heroes over their first two months of the 2021 season.  Wednesday's late-game clutch base hit, however, came off the bat of a familiar name.
 
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