Fernando Tatís Jr peeks at the sign before hitting a homer, a breakdown

The Dodgers and the Padres remain to be must-watch games. Bauer and Tatis. Bauer tweeted at Tatis earlier today about this at bat, said, hey, if you need the signs, just ask. Quit peeking. So let's get into what he's talking about. Here's pitch number one. Tie game in the six. Nice fastball by Bauer there. Fouls it off. Then he goes slider off the plate. He doesn't really get it where he wanted to be. I don't think. I think this is what he wanted to do. So he doubles up slider. And that's exactly what he wants to do with that pitch. Establish the outside with the fastball. Then go slider. And then it breaks right out of the zone. Get him swinging. He tries to do it again, but kind of yanks it again. Now he's going to come back. Fastball 2-2. You can see he yanks that as well. You got to reestablish himself. You can see up here. Fastball, slider, slider, fastball. I think not this big and this tacky, but I would love it if down here broadcasts did this. Put the sequence somewhere like F, S-L, S-L, all that stuff. It'd be cool to follow along with the game. Broadcast. Do that. So now he gets the sign. He wants to go fastball again in the 3-2 count. And he kind of puts it right in the middle. Fouls it back again. And now here's where it gets tricky. You can see the catcher throwing down the signs. I don't know what that is. If it's a 1 or a 2, but Bauer shakes. And he goes to this sign 3, which is a cutter. And Bauer shakes. Yes, I want that. Now watch Tatis' head. He grabs a peek. But by the time he turns his head to peek, the catcher's fingers... I'm going backwards now so we can get there. So the catcher's fingers are out. Tatis is not peeking. The catcher's fingers come in. And this is when Tatis decides to peek. And if you don't watch baseball a lot and you're like, is this a thing? Do batters really do this? Yeah, some people do it. There's more paranoid catchers than there are batters that do it. You'll see the catcher's a lot of times staring at the batter before he puts down a sign. What Tatis may have saw here is that the catcher moves his shoulder a little bit to the right. And Tatis might say, OK, they're going to go outside. He didn't see the sign. But maybe he saw the catcher rock to the outside a little bit to help cheat that way. But also, Bauer was pitching him outside this entire at-bat. So he probably could have guessed he was staying outside. He throws the cutter outside. And he reaches out of the zone, barrels it. This girl gets under it, catches. No. Hits her hand, rolls underneath the tarp. They search for it, have a whole search party. Who knows if they ever find it? Tatis goes straight pinwheels. Let's go. Then he's going to round first. His whole team is excited for him. Bauer confused. Why is the first cutter I threw it? Why was that was so outside? Why was the all? Did he peek? And then a little stutter step into third base. I kind of actually love that. It's pretty smooth. Everything Tatis does is pretty smooth. Even if he cheated right there, that was kind of smooth. But I don't know how much advantage he did gain. Oh, he does the Bauer strut as he crosses home plate. Trolls him a little bit. Earlier in this game, in the first inning, he hit a home run off of Bauer. And when he rounded first this time, he had the one eye troll, which is something that Bauer did in spring training. He was throwing pitches with one eye closed and then striking people out, then bragging about it. So Tatis didn't hit the home run with one eye closed. So I don't know if he can fully do that, but it's a troll nonetheless. So he did the strut for one home run. He did the eye close for another home run. These guys were tweeting at each other left and right about this. They both called each other daddy, I think. So Trash Talk's kind of in a weird place right now. But anyway, Dodgers Padres, incredibly fun stuff. Did he cheat? Did he peek? What do you guys think? I mean, he definitely peeked, right? He definitely tried to look right there unless he fought off a sneeze or something. But do you think it actually helped him? He would look too late to see the sign. See? But did he see him go outside? And did that even matter? Because every pitcher's outside. I mean, this pitcher's pretty outside though. Full extension. He went after and got it. Man, I love baseball.