Usually a break in the schedule, even on the road, is a chance for some ballplayers to loosen the grip the game has on their days and find some alternative programming or maybe some golf, of course. Not so Monday, as several Cardinals, during an off day in Detroit, expected the curiosity to be too much to keep them away from tuning in to a ballgame.
They were eager to observe the practices and potential spectacle of Major League Baseball’s first official day of “enhanced enforcement” and policing of adhesive substances on the gear, forearms, wrists, and fingers of pitchers.