Umps check Padres pitcher Musgrove's ears for sticky stuff

The bizarre inspection lit up social media and sparked a number of theories.

NEW YORK — Joe Musgrove got an earful — and didn’t mind at all.

The San Diego Padres pitcher was working on a one-hitter and about to face the Mets in the sixth inning when New York manager Buck Showalter walked out to crew chief Alfonso Marquez.

Two minutes later, the umpire had a hand in each of the pitcher’s ears, as if a magician about to pull out a coin.

“He’s not going to find nothing,” Musgrove remembered thinking to himself.

Showalter took the extraordinary step of

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