By Evan Bleier To help even the playing field last season as strikeouts in Major League Baseball increased to the point that all-time ace Nolan Ryan said he was uninterested in watching the game, MLB cracked down on pitchers using foreign substances on the mound to increase the spin rate on their balls and make them unhittable. In addition to resulting in more balls being put in play, MLB’s sticky-substance crackdown resulted in some of the best moments of the season as pitchers routinely flipped out when umpires checked their gloves, hats and even belts for banned substances, including spider…