Edwin Diaz won’t try to fight the system.
The Mets closer is not appealing the 10-game suspension he received for his sticky-stuff ejection Sunday night at Wrigley Field, and he will begin serving his ban Tuesday night for the Subway Series opener against the Yankees.
Diaz, 30, is eligible to return on July 6 for the second game of a four-game wraparound series against the Pirates in Pittsburgh.
The right-hander did not get to throw a pitch Sunday night as umpires checked him when he was going to warm up for the ninth inning and tossed him for what they deemed to be a suspiciously sticky hand.
Diaz said he only had sweat and rosin on his right hand.
“I think it’s the same [stickiness],” Diaz said after the game. “They always check me, they let me pitch. But today it was hotter than earlier in the season, I don’t know, they thought it was stickier, so I take the suspension.
“I will keep using the same thing because they didn’t find anything in my glove, my hat, my belt. I will keep using [the same thing].”
Crew chief Vic Carapazza disputed Diaz’s claim.
“It definitely wasn’t rosin and sweat,” Carapazza told a pool reporter after the game. “We’ve checked thousands of these. I know what that feeling is. This was very sticky.”