NEW YORK — Minnesota manager Rocco Baldelli was convinced Domingo Germán violated baseball's clean-hands doctrine.
So just before the start of the fourth inning Saturday, Germán found an umpire addressing him sternly, inches from his face, the New York Yankees pitcher accused of having excessive sticky substance on his pitching hand and the opposing team demanding his ejection.
"It was intense. There was a moment there where maybe I felt that things were going to get out hand," Germán said through an interpreter.
After an 5 1/2-minute interruption for inspection, discussion and Baldelli's ejection, Germán was allowed to stay in the game.