Blue Jays Manager Has Surprising Response to Yankees Tipped Pitches

Blue Jays coach John Schneider weighed in after the game.

“They were relaying (pitches).. they're good at it. Max has got to be a little bit better, you know it was obvious on the changeups. [...] It's fair game, the whole...Major League Baseball knows the Yankees are good when they've got something," Schneider said. "Maybe I'm the only one that's going to say it publicly, but we have to do a better job of making sure we're not giving anything away.”

"At the end of the day you've got to be tight, you've got to make pitches, but yeah it was pretty clear Bellinger was giving it to Judge and Judge was giving it to Rice."

Cody Bellinger was open with reporters after the game, as relaying pitches is perfectly legal.

“That is correct,” Bellinger said. “That is what was happening.”

The 2025 Yankees used this ability to their advantage in a July game against the Seattle Mariners, when Mariners pitcher Andrés Muñoz was tipping his slider. They were able to come back from a 5-0 deficit at the end of the seventh inning to win that game 6-5, and they beat the Blue Jays in this rubber match 4-3.

This series with the Blue Jays was crucial for the Yankees, who have slowly climbed back from their 6.5 game deficit in their division. After losing the series opener (likely due, in part, to limited sleep after a night game in Houston), the Yankees won two and now find themselves just two games behind the Blue Jays for the AL East lead. The Yankees are at the top of the AL Wildcard, 1.5 games ahead of the Boston Red Sox and five games ahead of the Seattle Mariners.

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