Two days after being implicated in the use of human growth hormone in George J. Mitchell’s report on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball, Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte acknowledged Saturday that he had tried the substance.Pettitte is one of the first players named in the Mitchell report to confirm its findings.
“If what I did was an error in judgment on my part, I apologize,” Pettitte said in a statement, his first public comments since the report was released Thursday.
According to the report, Brian McNamee, Pettitte’s former trainer, told Mitchell that he injected Pettitte with human growth hormone on “two to four occasions” in 2002 while Pettitte was recovering from an elbow injury.
In a statement released by his agent, Randy Hendricks, Pettitte said he tried the human growth hormone for “two days” because he believed it would speed his recovery. (keep reading)
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