Youth Pitcher Suffers Gruesome Pine Tar Accident

A player for the West Windsor Wildcats was rushed to Valley General Hospital on Saturday after coming into contact with pine tar.

The player, Jeremy Hecksher, applied a few drops of the sticky substance to his glove to bring out to the mound in the top of the third inning after being bludgeoned for seven runs in the first two innings.

His goal, onlookers surmised, was to sneak some of the pine tar onto his pitching hand to improve his pitch placement.

But Hecksher wasn't able to pull off the move. After applying a bit too much of the illicit material to his glove, he tried to remove some by using his pitching hand. Then he scratched his cheek with the soiled hand and left the substance on his face.

Afraid the skullduggery would be apparent, he went to the port-a-john to take care of it and a series of horrors ensued, each more grotesque than the last. Hecksher's mother told the coach Jeremy would be out "indefinitely."--SB!