Mariners' Rojas: Picked up pitch tipping by Yankees' Schmidt - ESPN

NEW YORK — With a little nod of his neck as he took his lead off second base, Josh Rojas seemed to signal Mariners teammate Dylan Moore that a cutter was coming from Yankees pitcher Clarke Schmidt.

Moore drove the 93.1 mph pitch 386 feet into the left-field seats for a 2-0 lead, helping Seattle to a 6-3 win over New York on Tuesday night.

«Everybody's always trying to look for something,» Rojas said Wednesday. «We're out there trying to find anything we can to gain an advantage.»

MLB Network showed a frame-by-frame comparison of Schmidt in the set position with Moore at the plate in the third inning. Rojas could see none of the ball before a sinker, a little of the ball ahead of a sweeper and a significant portion before a cutter.

Moore had fouled off Schmidt's first full-count pitch, a sweeper, before the right-hander came back with a cutter.

«You can see in the video he was clearly tipping,» Rojas said.

Schmidt, 28, said after the game the Yankees were aware of the tipping and quickly worked to ensure it wouldn't happen again.

«Obviously tipping is a part of this game and it's a factor and it's always in the back of our heads and something that we're well aware of,» Schmidt said. «They got two runs on it. But I was able to make adjustments after we saw the video and just part of the game. Another factor in it.»

Schmidt said tipping had been an issue with him in the past.

«It's just something that we're constantly with all our guys paying attention to and working on,» Yankees manager Aaron Boone said.

Mariners manager Scott Servais, a big league catcher from 1991 to 2001, said technology has forced teams to become more alert to tipping.

«You didn't have all the cameras and all the people working in front offices. It was