New York Yankees reliever Michael King accidentally tossed his PitchCom device into the stands on Tuesday night.

"I'm not used to throwing a rectangular little piece of electronics," said King, who was attempting to toss the device in the dugout.

The right-hander was having trouble getting onto the same page with catcher Ben Rortvedt when it came to their PitchCom signals.

"The one that I got didn't work. I don't know if it just wasn't activated or what," King said. "It just happened where I was hitting slider at the same time that Ben was hitting sinker. So every time I hit a slider, it was coming through as sinker."

After striking out Ryan McKenna leading off the inning, King decided to ditch his PitchCom device. He took it off his belt and threw it toward the Yankees' bench, but it ended up being snagged by a woman in the seats between the dugout and home plate.

"I got nervous 'cause I know you can call time for PitchCom, but I didn't know if you could do it for a transmitter malfunction. So I just took it off and chucked it," King said. "I thought it was definitely going to land in front of our dugout, and then it kind of took off like a Frisbee and I saw it floating. And then I saw it almost hit a fan. And then apparently they were hitting the button. Luckily, it wasn't working."

A security guard or usher retrieved the device and walked it across the front row before giving it to someone in the New York dugout.

"We did get it back," manager Aaron Boone said.