MLB Playoffs: What did Blake Snell have in his ear? Controversy in the Dodgers vs Padres

What does the left-handed pitcher get into? San Diego Padres, Blake Snell, under the cap next to the left temple? Is it some kind of pin or toothpick? That is the question of the billion made by millions of users on the different digital platforms, especially on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

While they are pears or they are apples, It could well be part of the device that pitchers use to be able to hear the pitch that the catcher requests. The fact is that an inning later, that artifact was no longer in the former Tampa Bay Rays sepentine:

Blake Ashton Snell, 29 years old and 1.93 meters tall, was not umpired like fellow right-hander Joe Musgrove earlier this week in Game 3 of the Wild Card Series against the New York Mets at Citi Field.

Whatever it was, Snell was throwing a big game in Game 3 of the NL Division Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Petco Park. The 2018 American League Cy Young has five innings of four hits, one run, two walks and six strikeouts hitting 98 miles per hour. He already has 87 pitches (51 strikes). Will he come out for the sixth?


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Raphael Martinez

I am a fan of the King of Sports, especially the Boston Red Sox in MLB and all Mexican baseball in general. This profession has given me the opportunity to cover major events such as the Caribbean Series, LMB All Star, LMP (uninterruptedly since 2009), signatures of important players. I had the chance to attend the 2013 World Classic in Arizona, USA, although as a fan. Apart from this beautiful sport, I love basketball, where I have also narrated games and even an NBA friendly 10 years ago, but I have baseball in my veins. Degree in Communication Sciences from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS) , from which I graduated in 2011. I was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa and started in the world of sports journalism in 2004 in the newspaper El Sol de Mazatlán, where I was a baseball columnist and a reporter at the same time. In January 2009 I arrived at El Debate as a journalist reporter and it was almost six years (in the first stage), until in November 2014 I emigrated to the radio providing my services at Línea Directa-Grupo RSN. My cycle there ended in July 2019 and a few days later, El Debate gave me another opportunity to work and opened the doors for me again. That is how I came to Al Bat, where I have been since 2019 as a web journalist.

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MLB Playoffs: What did Blake Snell have in his ear? Controversy in the Dodgers vs Padres