{"id":56314,"date":"2025-07-11T07:57:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T07:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/56314\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T07:57:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T07:57:16","slug":"yankees-caught-mariners-closer-tipping-pitches-in-wild-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/56314\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees caught Mariners closer tipping pitches in wild comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Yankees\u2019 biggest comeback win of the season came with a little bit of help.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Seattle catcher Cal Raleigh, Mariners closer Andr\u00e9s Mu\u00f1oz was tipping his pitches when the Yankees tagged him for two runs in the bottom of the ninth before going on to win, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/10\/sports\/aaron-judges-game-ending-sac-fly-leads-yankees-to-stunning-comeback-win-over-mariners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">6-5, in 10 innings<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was tipping it every time [with a runner] at second base,\u2019\u2019 Raleigh said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Video showed Yankee baserunners, including Cody Bellinger, at second base motioning with their arms when Mu\u00f1oz was going to throw a slider.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36504140\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AP_Mariners_Yankees_Baseball_47681-73fbc-0.jpg\" alt=\"Seattle Mariners pitcher Andr\u00e9s Mu\u00f1oz (75) throws during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees, Thursday, July 10, 2025, in New York. \" class=\"wp-image-36504140\"  \/>Seattle Mariners pitcher Andr\u00e9s Mu\u00f1oz (75) throws during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees, Thursday, July 10, 2025, in New York.  AP<\/p>\n<p>It led to Ben Rice taking a slider outside the strike zone with a full count to load the bases for Austin Wells, who laid off back-to-back sliders- one of which was a called strike- before he tied the game by driving in two runs with a single on a four-seam fastball.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, they weren\u2019t making it very discreet,\u201d Raleigh said of the Yankees\u2019 alert system from second base. \u201cIt\u2019s part of the game. It\u2019s our job. We should have known about that going into the series. They made it really hard there at the end.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oddly, Raleigh did not tell Mu\u00f1oz about his tell during the fateful inning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou try to do as much as you can without trying to distract him from what\u2019s happening at the plate,\u2019\u2019 Raleigh said. \u201cThat\u2019s something we will have to figure out [in] the next couple days, for sure.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.40082079;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36504158\" width=\"826\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-11-at-12.50.25-AM.png\" alt=\"Andres Munoz was tipping his pitches.\" class=\"wp-image-36504158\"  \/>Andres Munoz was tipping his pitches.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle manager Dan Wilson disputed the notion that Mu\u00f1oz was giving anything away.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think that\u2019s the case,\u2019\u2019 Wilson said. \u201cI think we got ourselves into some tough counts and they took advantage of it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was part of a rough latter part of the game for Seattle and Mu\u00f1oz, as well as Raleigh, who not only wasn\u2019t able to frame what should have been a game-ending called third strike on a Mu\u00f1oz changeup to Wells in the ninth, but he later missed the tag when Anthony Volpe slid around him on Aaron Judge\u2019s game-winning sacrifice fly in the 10th.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 With AP\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees\u2019 biggest comeback win of the season came with a little bit of help.\u00a0 According to Seattle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1266,405,403,2228,5226,5225,5228,5227,1288,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-56314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-yankees","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-seattle-mariners","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114833538919626349","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56314","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=56314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}