Sign-Stealing 101 Gets a Fan Ejected From Yankee Stadium<br />That was all it took on Tuesday night for that fan to be ejected from Yankee Stadium for yelling out information on pitch location<br />to the Yankees’ Gary Sanchez while he was hitting in the eighth inning of his team’s 6-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays.<br />That effort appeared to involve Red Sox personnel gleaning information about a catcher’s signals off video feeds of the game, rapidly getting<br />that information to the dugout via the watch and then verbally conveying that information to players on the field.<br />This was, for sure, not anything like the recent sign-stealing case involving the Boston Red Sox, who had a member of their<br />training staff wearing an Apple Watch in a fairly high-tech bid to let their hitters know what pitch might be coming.<br />But after the fan’s booming voice was heard by Sanchez; the Rays’ catcher, Wilson Ramos;<br />and the home-plate umpire, Dan Bellino, he was pointed out to stadium security and removed from the stadium.<br />Everybody’s supposed to see the ball and just react with pitches … so to me, it’s like cheating.”<br />After the fan was ejected, Sanchez hit a bloop single to drive in the Yankees’ fifth run.
