Pitcher accused of cheating via his hair, a breakdown

little backstory on him he was a big

sticky stuff user back in 2021 and 2020

when he first came up there's a lot of

videos he didn't really hide it didn't

really care a lot of pitchers were big

sticky stuff users so i'm not trying to

single him out this video is just about

him but his spin rate also dropped like

crazy in 2021 you can see the graph

there in june when it got outlaw just

plummeted then he worked its way back up

had to find a new way to get grip on the

ball and in 2022

he's worked his way back up to almost

where he was when he was using sticky

stuff this isn't a lone case a lot of

pitchers have this same sequence a lot

of the known sticky stuff users and what

they've done

maybe is go to their hair and that's

what's happening here so he drops in

that curve ball goes to the hair grabs

it goes to the rosin then goes fastball

up top that's the two pitch combination

karen check has and it's very effective

here it is side by side they're both the

same they're both the same one is wildly

different the curve ball and the high

fastball so after every pitch in this

outing against the twins and these two

teams are in a division race

and it's you know getting close and the

twins are dying a little bit and they

want to not die he's throwing the

pitches he's getting the ball he's going

to the back of his hair grabbing that

then grabbing the rosin and then

throwing the pitch

throws the curveball it gets hit and

scooped but not caught by the left

fielder so now there's a runner on base

and the twins have some momentum and

maybe they're going to put a rally

together and the curveball is in there

wipe the hand clean get the new ball

grab the hair a little bit really yank

it next pitch fastball up top but a ball

gets the ball

touches it grabs the hair really yanks

it gets a new ball grabs the hair grabs

the rosin gets a new ball grabs the hair

grabs the ros and gets a new ball grabs

the hair grabs the rosin then on this

particular pitch because it's a new ball

the old one got fouled off grabs the

hair again grabs the rosin grabs the

hair again

grabs the rosin grabs the ball okay he's

got it he's good to go he's ready

flipping the ball he's very intensely

intense guy

and ready to pitch what am i going to

throw two strikes here we go no weight i

need more of my hair and at this point

the manager of the twins is like what

the hell you're forcing my hands here i

got to do something we catch the tail

end of his conversation with the ump

asking you to go check him

thank you this is awful it's [ __ ]

awful i believe rocco's saying like it's

awful that it's come to this not awful

that he's cheating he's like i don't

want to go make you touch guys and

accuse them of cheating and then the um

comes down and says hey i gotta check

you and he says all right cool check me

what you got going on he says well

here's my hair you want to touch it and

he's like well let me see your hat first

i'll just touch the inside of your hat

he starts taking his belt off bows his

head down now and then he just pets him

like a cat like good good good girl good

girl i don't understand why they're

checking in this manner i don't

understand why karen check had to bow

his head

and he couldn't just stand up straight

and then and then you know ted barrett

here is manly man he's really

gentle you know it's a really gentle

touch he's like i don't see anything i

don't see anything and i don't think

he's using anything well i have no idea

there could be some new stuff but the

old sticky stuff

you wouldn't grab the rosin afterwards

now all the pitchers can really do is

they can use their sweat and the rosin

and the mixture of that

gets it stickier gets more grip

sometimes they they use the sweat and

you'll see them go on their forearm like

this but a lot of pitchers have grown

out longer hair now to kind of like you

know pull that hair so maybe he's not

chin tito he's like okay that's what

we're doing we're checking and rock was

like hey ted uh nothing you got nothing

he's like no man i was just uh kind of

felt like a nice nice head of hair in

him and he was like all right well [ __ ]

now i feel awful

fastball outside

and now karen shaq's got free range he's

going to go straight to the hair he's

going to pull pull he's going to go to

the rosin and morocco's like are you

sure dude are you there's no hair gel or

hairspray or there's nothing in there

and he's gonna go hair hair rosin

rocco's just staring at him and karen

checks like i'm gonna rub in their faces

now hair

ball rosin hair ball rosin rocco like

really

and there's nothing on there ball ball

hair

ball

rosin rosin

and ready to pitch rocco can't really

believe it high fastball into left field

for the out second out of the inning the

runner stays on first base and let's

grab some more of that hair

let's get it going it's working and we

like it

double it up

rocco

pretty annoyed there's nothing in his

hair but sweat

fastball to correa correa says probably

gonna throw that curveball now off of

that fastball karen trick says let me

step out and pull my hair grab the ball

a bunch more and career says i think

you're probably gonna throw that

curve ball now after throwing a fastball

strike

i don't know correa's stats on if he's a

good breaking ball hitter but he seems

to me like such a good breaking ball

hitter gets the curveball

rocks it into left field two run homer

makes it a seven to six game bam

the twins have life didn't last long

but they had it oh let's go

oh

yeah yes

i love that double take by geo scared

scared oh scared or scared or scared or

oh and excited

excited i don't know why you're so

scared for so long excited excited come

calm calm's down calms down calms down

Chris Archer's fired up

correa crosses home now it's a close

game

did they get into their head did he get

in their head who got in whose head oh

[ __ ] karen shack goes up and in after

the fastball after the sticky stuff

check says i might slipped i'm sorry but

you know the timing on that now rocco i

wonder if he feels bad if he's like i

caused that by checking

i don't want to cause that i have no

idea curveball in there and carrying

check again is like uh that was a bad

pitch it was like we felt it back

curveball again

fastball up top

fastball up top rocked and a double holy

[ __ ] did they rattle him a 3-1 fastball

he threw it at the guy's head after the

home run hits it into the corner for a

double the twins got something going did

the hair check work out did they get in

his head

even though the um said it's legal

who's winning the mental battle fastball

outside but called a strike fastball

down the middle

popped up

guardians get out of the inning karen

check escapes hair drama

gets pet

correa has a good time

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sorry twins this is how so i would have

done it if i was the said that it just

went like this

all good but instead they had james

karen check undo his belt and then like

really submissively put his and then

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which feels really nice