{"id":209436,"date":"2025-09-08T05:35:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/209436\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T05:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:35:14","slug":"yankees-still-not-afraid-of-sharing-when-they-pick-up-opponents-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/209436\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees still not afraid of sharing when they pick up opponents’ signs"},"content":{"rendered":"

During Ben Rice\u2019s at-bat in the first inning of Sunday\u2019s 4-3 win over Toronto<\/a>, Aaron Judge was at second base, clearly waving his arms, as was Cody Bellinger at first.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t the first time the Yankees didn\u2019t hide that they\u2019d picked up on an opposing team\u2019s signs \u2014 and this time, it worked exceptionally well, as Rice hit a three-run homer off Max Scherzer.<\/p>\n

After the game, Toronto manager John Schneider told reporters what other teams know well: \u201cThey were relaying pitches, they\u2019re good at it. Major League Baseball knows the Yankees are good when they have something. Maybe I\u2019m the only one that\u2019s going to say it publicly. But we have to do a better job of making sure we\u2019re not giving anything away.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ben Rice hits a single in the fifth inning of the Yankees and Toronto Blue Jays game at Yankee Stadium. Bill Kostroun\/New York Post<\/p>\n

He\u2019s got a point, because the Yankees don\u2019t intend to stop.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sure it\u2019s probably frustrating as a pitcher,\u201d Bellinger said. \u201cI don\u2019t know what they think about it. For us, we have an idea of it pregame. You kind of go out, look for it in the game and if you see it, you see it.\u201d<\/p>\n

And unlike some other teams, the Yankees aren\u2019t shy about letting everyone know when they\u2019ve seen it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess we\u2019re good at it,\u2019\u2019 Bellinger said. \u201cIt feels like a lot of people do it right now. \u2026 We\u2019re just so obvious with it [and] with our motion. That\u2019s probably what it is. A lot of teams are discreet. We say, \u2018We got it.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

For Toronto, there\u2019s not much they can do about it.<\/p>\n

Yankees Ben Rice celebrates with Aaron Judge (99) after hitting a three run home run during the first inning of a MLB baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays at Yankee Stadium. Noah K. Murray-NY Post<\/p>\n

Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Max Scherzer winds up to throw during the first inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025. AP<\/p>\n

Even Scherzer, who gave up the blast to Rice, said the Yankees\u2019 actions are \u201cpart of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Austin Wells said afterward: \u201cEvery team we play tries to relay signs, whether it\u2019s [about] location or pitch. Everybody does.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The Yankees also had great success earlier in the year against Seattle closer Andr\u00e9s Mu\u00f1oz, who was tipping his pitches with runners on base, as the Yankees took a game from the Mariners.<\/p>\n

And a week later, Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Atlanta coach Eddy Perez got into an argument when Chisholm was picking up pitches from Rafael Montero from second base, which, just like everything else the Yankees have done in this department, is by the books.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, it helped get them another much-needed win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During Ben Rice\u2019s at-bat in the first inning of Sunday\u2019s 4-3 win over Toronto, Aaron Judge was at…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":209437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[3090,5229,58813,10624,1266,405,403,2228,5226,5225,5228,5227,62,1290,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-209436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-aaron-judge","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-ben-rice","11":"tag-cody-bellinger","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-new-york-yankees","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115167056578201162","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}