The ritual of batters stepping out of the box between pitches is driven by neuroscience to prevent their brains from misinterpreting previous pitches.

“when you see a pitch and that and you stay in the batter's box you don't walk away you don't and the and the pitcher throws you another pitch you will see the last pitch so your brain and shaking it off right your we'll say here it comes again when it's not so your brain lies to you about the pitch ”