After Angels fans threw trash cans and taunted the Astros on Monday night in Anaheim, it's worth wondering whether fans will ever forgive Houston for its infamous sign-stealing scandal.
The Houston Astros returned to Yankee Stadium for the first time since their infamous sign-stealing scheme rocked the baseball world, and Yankees fans made sure to remind them that the cheating has not been forgotten. SI senior writer Tom Verducci explains why the consequences from the 2017 scandal are here to stay for the Astros.
MLB has come under fire for league-wide use of foreign substances by pitchers, and when asked about the sticky stuff, Yankees ace Gerrit Cole's awkward answer confirmed what we already knew: Baseball is full of cheaters.
This is only the latest scandal in baseball's long history of cheating. Whether it be rampant use of performance-enhancing drugs during the Steroid Era, elaborate sign-stealing s...
From steroids to pitchers using sticky substances and elaborate sign-stealing schemes, baseball has a long and infamous history of cheating. America's pastime has seen countless scandals involving some of MLB's greatest players (Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez and Gerrit Cole, to name just a few). And with the Astros' trash cans and league-wide use of Spider Tack being exposed only within the last cou...
Like it or not, the Astros deserve credit. By reaching the ALCS for a fifth straight season, Houston has proven it's not just a product of cheating...unless they're still up to something, that is.
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