@adamplace1414
The 50-ft lead in the outfield was WILD. Somebody was thinking late into the night and cackling madly over that plan.
@Astrology.microdoses
“If he tries to pick off the runner in right field” is such a wild statement had me laughing out loud
@alexw0310
I heard a story in Ken Burns' Baseball about the 19th century player King Kelly. In those days, to enter a game off the bench, you would announce yourself. In one game, a popup came towards Kelly's dugout, and he stepped onto the field, said, "Kelly now catching for Boston," and caught the ball, and the batter was called out.
@mitchelvalentino1569
Regarding the Johnny Bench play, when Ty Cobb was player-manager of the Tigers, he ordered a similar play on Babe Ruth. Cobb was managing from centerfield and yelled to the pitcher to intentionally walk Ruth. The pitcher gave Cobb a slight look of disagreement. The catcher yelled to the pitcher to just follow orders and walk Ruth. The catcher stood for the intentional walk, but at the last second the pitcher threw a strike one fastball. Expecting a ball, the Babe didn’t swing. Cobb yelled again from the outfield, pretending to be angry, ordering an intentional walk. The catcher appeared irritated and berated the pitcher for trying to lose the game by letting Ruth hit. But the next pitch was another strike. Ruth expected a ball. Then Cobb ran to the mound and pretended to chew out the pitcher, threatening to not only take him out of the game, but bench him and fine him for disobeying. Some of the infielders came in to calm things down. The frustrated pitcher finally agreed to walk Ruth. Knowing Cobb’s style as a manager, Ruth and the Yankees bought it. The theatrics paid off and the next pitch was strike three.
@momentous7417
That last pitch was a damn ball 😆 the ump didn’t want to ruin the “smartest” play of all time and just went with the catcher’s reaction
@mrcooliojones165
the kentucky play was actually genius
@KDotDizzy
i don’t even watch baseball but i love this channel and the thing one thing i do find so interesting about baseball is that all the most interesting, important, or intriguing moments in the sport happen in between the actual moments of the sport being played. so many weird rules, caveats, and traditions that ultimately lead to such interesting stories
@Arassar
Capps jumping two feet off the rubber to pitch is still wild to me.
@meetra5073
nah somebody give the batter at 3:16 a medal. He made contact AND got it safely onto the ground
@dangerousfreedom4965
11:30 the rubber is 60’6” away from the rear point of home plate
@BigDaddyPrettyBoy
Me whenever baseball doesn’t exist posts 🎉
@TyrannoJoris_Rex
I still think Freddie Freeman's 4th out, Kyle Tucker's appeal breaker, and Jason Varitek running for the fielder instead of the base were all smarter MLB plays than the A's fake intentional-walk-to-set-up-the-double-play. Edit: Even the 1st-and-3rd with Kentucky's runner-falling-down distraction and the high school runner leading off in shallow right were better
@KevinQuinn81
For those wondering how to defend against the baserunner taking off during an appeal, you as the defending team have to focus on making the appeal as quickly and directly as possible and THEN make a play on the runner. If there were 2 outs and the appeal is successful, the inning is over but if it's not or there are less than 2 outs, you do still need to make a quick play so you can still try and get the runner.
@Teremei
0:18 fartin on the baseball to give the pitch some extra stank.
@BlindfoldSniper
@6:30 I'm having to stop the video because I'm dying. This game is so messed up. I love it.
@withershin
If you're playing on a hard bag at first the 1B probably knows with ~75% accuracy if the runner is safe - just from the feeling on the bag. Super smart play by Freeman at 13:25
@speedydog45
Show this to a person just learning the rules of baseball to explode their brain
@Verlisify
The hitting the batter to stop stealing from home is something I never heard of
@Dysan72
14:00 Freddy probably knew that the runner was safe, no matter how people were acting. He probably felt the bag shift before the ball hit. So he KNEW there were only 2 outs, and went for the 3rd. Even though people were reacting to the catch like the runner was already out.
@PickleDillGaming