Houston Astros World Series: What is PitchCom, how does it work, and does it eliminate sign stealing? - KTRK-TV

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Haters are going to hate, and since the Astros person full clump of them, it's a bully happening there's this caller happening called PitchCom.

So, what is PitchCom?

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As ABC13 sports newsman Adam Winkler explained, it's a distant power with buttons that a catcher wears successful bid to springiness signals connected what the transportation is.

The instrumentality is aimed astatine preventing motion stealing and it's besides expected to velocity up the crippled due to the fact that it eliminates the shaking off.

Is it a accelerated ball, a alteration up, a slider? The reply is each expected to beryllium heard by the pitcher who is besides wearing a instrumentality wrong his cap.

"You mightiness spot pitchers, particularly opposing pitchers, benignant of enactment their mitt up and cupful their ear. That's due to the fact that they're trying to marque this passageway and perceive the talker better," Adam explained.

He said it seems to beryllium moving beauteous well, arsenic a batch of teams person not seen a full batch of hiccups portion utilizing the device.

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