You go from the watch to the player, to the man on the field, to the batter. And they did that, because it's very easy when you're on second to then relay the signal to the batter. So, in other words, they didn't use this between every pitch of every game, it seems, but, rather, they waited for someone to be on second base. Michael mentioned two of them by name, Brock Holt and Dustin Pedroia, who then relayed the sign, it seems, to a Red Sox player, who was probably already on second base. So, someone on the Red Sox, allegedly, according to Michael Schmidt, The New York Times, was looking at this, I guess on a television screen, and then relaying that information to a member of the training staff in the Red Sox dugout, who saw that information by looking down at his wrist.Īnd then he simply signaled to one of the players in the dugout. Well, when you watch a baseball game at home, you see the catcher wiggling their fingers between every pitch.Īnd when they're doing that, they're telling the pitcher what kind of a pitch to throw.
