'Although rumors had begun to spread throughout the league about the Astros, opponents remained short on facts,' writes Andy Martino, author of 'CHEATED: The Inside Story of the Astros Scandal and a Colorful History of Sign Stealing.'
With MLB cracking down on doctoring baseballs, the Dodgers stand to lose a lot if Trevor Bauer’s recent transformation on the mound continues.In Game 3, he noticed — and of course shared with teammates — that when Darvish prepared to throw a fastball, he rotated the ball in his glove in search of the proper grip. He didn’t do this for off-speed pitches.
The problem with that logic? It wasn’t always the hit that made a sign-stealing process effective; it could also be the takes earlier in the at-bat that enabled it to progress to a chopper or a throwing error. Before every game, an employee of the home team is assigned to “rub up” or “mud up” the game balls, massaging a dark substance into the baseball in order to make it less slick and easier for a pitcher to grip.
Shortly after the series moved back to Houston, the Dodgers felt that Astros pitchers were rejecting baseballs more frequently than is typical, tossing them back to the umpire and requesting new ones.Then an L.A. pitcher approached his front office with an observation: The balls that the Astros were using were mudded up differently. They were visibly darker.
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