Yankees caught another pitcher tipping pitches earlier this season

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00:00Listen, the Yankees were on Munoz last week, the closer for the Mariners,

00:04and they put together a rally all year long, their best rally all year,

00:09in the ninth inning, and clearly Joel had his pitches.

00:13He was either tipping them or they knew what was coming,

00:16but you saw the signs at second base, guys like Cody Bellinger, Ben Rice,

00:21and others making this waving hand signal at second base to the batter

00:25right before the pitch, and they almost always were spitting on the slider,

00:32fastball they were on.

00:34So, Joel, you had seen something prior, and I'll toss it to you here.

00:39What did you make of that and what the Yankees have been able to do

00:41in getting the tipping of pitches?

00:44So I was at a day game on June 19th, Angels and the Yankees,

00:50and Aaron Judge is on second base, and Hector Norris is pitching,

00:53and I see him do this arm wave.

00:56Here, we got it here.

00:57We're showing it to folks.

01:00Norris drew four pitches.

01:02Two of them were splitters.

01:04Judge waves his arm like that circular thing twice.

01:08He also did it, and Norris stepped off and took a look at him

01:13because he clearly knew something was up, you know,

01:15because, like, Stanton spit on a couple of splitters in the count.

01:19And I turned to Greg Joyce, and I think Mark Sanchez was there,

01:24our colleagues at the post, and I said, Judge is signaling.

01:27He's got the pitches.

01:28I said, it's blatant.

01:30I said, but he's clearly signaling to him.

01:33But it was one batter, and, you know, it's like things happen,

01:35and I never thought about it again.

01:37And then I saw this, and I was like, oh, I've seen this before.

01:41So I went, and I hate to go all jombo here.

01:44This is his world, and I'm a junior contestant here.

01:50But just because I had seen it previously, I went to somebody with the Yankees,

01:55and I said, if I tell you what I think is going on, would you tell me if I'm right?

02:02And they kind of went, okay.

02:04And I said, because what I compared it to is, you're a fan of the movie Rounders?

02:09Yes.

02:10So it's the Oreo cookies with the John Malkovich character.

02:14It's so blatant, and he gives away the tell.

02:18In other words, like the Mikey D character, the Johnny Damon character says,

02:22like makes it obvious that he has his tell.

02:24The Yankees are so obvious that the other team has to – it's not subtle.

02:29It's not like – usually if you get the sign at second base,

02:32you'll do something like lean one way, you know, fastball, lean the other way.

02:35If you think it's a breaking ball, touch your belt buckle.

02:37Do something subtle that might look – this is obscene, right?

02:42Like this is – like everyone could see what you're doing, right?

02:46And so I said, they're getting it.

02:50Judge isn't seeing it, right?

02:52Because it's a splitter, either the first base coach is seeing it, right?

02:57Or a runner on first base is seeing it.

03:01And they're giving a signal, and there's not enough time to be subtle.

03:05Right.

03:05And do something like touch your belt buckle or lean this way.

03:08You're seeing it, and then you as quickly have to do this for the hitter,

03:12because the pitcher is now coming.

03:14So you can't – the hitter isn't going to see something subtle,

03:17but he is going to see a big hand motion.

03:20And I think that's what it was.

03:22And look, I think within the context of the game,

03:27like beyond the fact that they're giving it away,

03:30I think it happens all the time.

03:32I just think it's subtler.

03:34Like everyone is drilling down on every other team in live action and on film.

03:39For sure.

03:39And they're looking for it, and this isn't like trash can banging or something.

03:42This is the history of the game.

03:44If you can't disguise your pitch, if you're showing it in your glove,

03:48you've got a wide glove, or you're showing it because you take your hand out quick,

03:52or you're showing it because you dip your shoulder on a certain pitch,

03:55like this is code-breaking and going on.

04:00I had never seen something so – like again, on that game on June 19th,

04:05which is like a month ago now, I was just like –

04:08I felt like, how am I the only guy in the press box who sees Judge

04:12like looking like a giant – I mean, he's 6'7",

04:15and he looks like a giant butterfly out there doing this.

04:19And I kind of pointed it out, and then it kind of just got lost to time

04:22until the Munoz stuff.

04:24So I thought it'd be interesting to bring back that I actually did see him do this.

04:28That's why you're so insightful, Joel,

04:30and that's why we love having you on the show,

04:32because you bring such great knowledge and things that we don't see,

04:35whether it's on TV or even at the ballpark.

04:38And like you said, it's fun to do things when you see things like this

04:42and notice trends and just a great piece of video.

04:45I'm glad we were able to bring that on here and highlight that this has happened before,

04:48and we'll certainly pay attention if we see someone at second base doing this again

04:53in future games.

04:53I wouldn't be surprised if they do it again because, like, look, the world knows it now.

05:01And I just wondered, does the other team react by hitting somebody?

05:06Or like what – and I would argue close up your stuff.

05:11Yeah.

05:12Like tidy up your stuff.

05:15You're not being subtle, so I'm not going to be subtle.

05:17Like we see it and we have to – but we know players get touchy on the field about stuff like this.

05:25And as you – you know, anyone who sees the video, like Nerys does kind of step off at some point.

05:29And as anyone who saw Cal Raleigh – Cal Raleigh came out to the mound with Munoz and said,

05:34they got something.

05:37And I'm not 100% certain of this, but I think I'm pretty sure of this.

05:42I think after he throws the second splitter, Nerys throws the second splitter to Stanton in that inning.

05:51That's his best pitch.

05:52I don't think he throws another one in the inning.

05:55I think he knows they have – I think him and the catcher know that they have it, you know.

06:01And I don't think he went back to it.

06:04But that one I'm not positive about.

06:06But I – you know, you're testing my memory from a game a month ago now.

06:09But I think he stopped throwing it.

06:13Because, like, I'll chart as I go along pitches and stuff, and I think he had stopped throwing it.

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