Which is why, two months into the 2017 season, the Astros set up a camera ... he was giving and then relay the pictures to a television hanging in the team dugout. While the technology worked ...

Ahead of the Houston Astros ... the 2017 season (yes, the season they won the World Series) when they would assign a "runner" to relay the information from the video replay room to the dugout ...

Image A.J. Hinch, right, and Alex Cora, then the Astros’ bench coach, during the World Series in 2017.Credit...Bob Levey/Getty Images Early ... a smartphone in the dugout or a smartwatch of ...

An explosive report from The Athletic last week on the 2017 ... from the dugout. On Sunday, Twitter user Jomboy, who has covered the case closely on Twitter, posted video from the Astros ...

Nevertheless, the 2017 Series win is hopelessly tainted ... and relayed the images to a monitor by the Astros dugout. Once decoded, this told the team whether the next pitch was a fastball ...

MLB said Cora arranged for a monitor displaying the center field camera feed to be placed immediately outside of the Astros' dugout ... 1, 2017, in Los Angeles. Jerritt Clark/Getty Images ...

The Houston Astros are back in a familiar role: World Series villains. The organization has made it a habit of reaching the Fall Classic since 2017 ... trash cans in the dugout.

By David Waldstein The Houston Astros won the World Series in 2017 after scoring the ... transmitted images to a monitor near the dugout and then relayed information to the batter by banging ...

The Houston Astros are back in a familiar role: World Series villains. The organization has made it a habit of reaching the Fall Classic since 2017 ... trash cans in the dugout.