I've beena. coach for the sport of Baseball for almost 20 years now and i can say this..... Baseball is the most difficult and hardest sport to learn. You have to be very athletic and intelligent to understand baseball.
The third video is Bartolo Colon hitting a home run. The home run itself (hitting it outside the park) was not so impressive: what was impressive was that Bartolo Colon did it. Colon is a pitcher. Because pitchers have a physically taxing job, they usually only play every five days. Because of that, and because of the speciality of their position, they usually really don't focus on their hitting, and are usually not the greatest hitters. Add in the fact that Bartolo Colon, while a great pitcher, was hardly the most athletic guy, and it was more just exciting that _he_ hit the home run.
As a mets fan who watched every game that was certainly a part of it, but he was also a pitcher and a horrendous hitter, he would constantly spin himself around and have his helmet fall off on his swings
Jackie Robinson was the first Black player in MLB. His number 42 is retired by every team in MLB. He also participated in the Liberation of France in 1944 as a tank commander!
4:26 That’s called a ‘Bunt’. A Bunt is a batting technique in baseball. To bunt, the batter loosely holds the bat in front of home plate and intentionally taps the ball into play. A properly executed bunt will create weak contact with the ball and/or strategically direct it, forcing the infielders to make a difficult defensive play to record an out.
To answer some questions: 1:45 No, the player did not intend to hit the ball that softly. Groundballs are usually outs, as you saw. Although it was it so softly that the pitcher had very little time to run over and throw it to 1st base. The batter may have actually made it if the pitcher wasn't literally a freak of nature. 2:03 Yes, if you have the ball, tagging the base with any part of your body results in an out, but only for Force Outs. A "Force Out" is when the runner must advance to the next base because the runner behind his moving to occupy his current base. So if you have a runner on 1st and 2nd, tagging the base at 2nd is enough to get an out. You must tag the runner at third since there is no force. Running from home to 1st is always a force. 3:28 Both player were in a "Rundown" or a "Pickle". It is when a runner gets trapped off the bases by two players. They throw the ball back and forth hoping to eventually tag the runner. They then threw it to 3rd to trap the runner on 3rd who was hoping to score. And it wasn't a force at home, so he need to be tagged. 4:03 Yes, 4 home runs in a game is a big deal. Heck, for HITS in a game is a big deal. The stadium is empty because its the Cincinnati Reds. They're... not the best. But they bodied my team that day. 4:25 That was a bunt. It's an intentionally soft hit ball. The idea is to force the fielder to move in to get allowing you more time to get to the base. 4:51 The batter hit a ball into right field and the runner on 2nd ran to 3rd. The outfielder, Ichiro Suzuki, a Japanese player, throw and absolute cannon to throw out the runner. Baseball outfielders need to be able to quickly recover the ball if they don't catch it and get it back to the infield. Basically the throw had a lot of power and was very accurate. Very hard to have both. 6:05 That is called a "Comebacker". Pitchers only have a split second to protect themselves. Actually the team in red was the Texas Rangers. Their colors are red, blue, and white. The graphic is a bit misleading, but most MLB teams have red on their uniforms. The other team is indeed from Los Angeles. The city has two teams though. LAD is the Los Angeles Dodgers and LAA is the Los Angeles Angels. The name is a bit on the nose. 7:23 A grand slam is when a team as a player on 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. The batter at the plate hit a home run (a ball hit over the fence in fair territory). Every runner gets to advance to home, resulting in 4 points. It's the most points you can get at once. 7:42 Sometime outfielders need to play the ball off the wall because it is rolling in too fast to chase, so they wait for the rebound and let it come to them. That player kind of messed it up, but made up for his blunder by throwing out the guy running to 3rd. Judging by where he was, he probably threw the ball over 280 feet (256 meters). 8:05 Yes, baseballs have killed both players and fans. Pitchers can throw over 100 miles per hour (160.9 kph). 10:00 That team was the Washington (D.C) Nationals.
I'm not sure if anyone has explained this, but sometimes the crowd looks pretty "empty" during regular season games because there are SO many games during the regular season, many throughout the middle of the week (a team usually plays 162 games in the regular season before playoffs). So most fans can't make it to every single game throughout a season, but even if the outfield crowd is sparse, usually the main crowd behind home plate is pretty crowded. Even though the crowd looks sparse, trust that the TV/stream numbers are doing alright. Having that said, once the regular season is over and we get into playoffs, the baseball crowds are HUGE and pretty lit. There are some good baseball crowd videos that show that crazy and fun it can be!
Growing up with baseball we see it as simple, but trying to explain it all to a British fellow I met here on business I found it quite difficult. There's a lot of subtleties to the game which I didn't really realize till I tried explaining.
As a non-fan, that's what I enjoy about these videos. It reminds me just how much baseball permeates our culture. Even though I've never followed the sport, I still understand what's going on and I appreciate the reminder that it's not as obvious as it seems to us. And, of course, the highlights are impressive whether you're a fan or not.
Grand slam 3 runners on base and batter hits home run. Pitcher throws ball can reach speeds over 100 ball travels off bat ever faster. Batter is either out if ball is caught in the air over ball reaches first base before runner or he is tagged out. Force out ball beats runner to bag before he gets there. Runner can be tagged out or forced out.
Most players throw the ball around at 70-83 MPH but the pitcher himself, the one in throwing it at people with a bat, average 95 MPH with a few throwing up to 105.
Converting those speeds to metric units for ease of new eyes that aren't accustomed to MPH: 112 - 136 KPH, for position players. 152 - 169 KPH, for pitchers. Nice.
ua-cam.com/video/3Y_ayKBzWVM/v-deo.html not shown in this clip a rain delay that stopped play after the 9th inning which was regulation. Game went into extra innings tied last game of the World Series.
When Colon hit the home run, they weren't going crazy because of the distance it was hit, they were amazed because he is a pitcher (pitchers are the worst hitters on the field in general), and he is really old in relative terms for an athlete in baseball, let alone other sports. Incidentally, he is the same guy who flipped the ball behind his back to get the runner out at 1st base. Yes, hitting the ball softly in the infield is a strategy known as a bunt. Colon is not known for his speed or agility, as you can tell by his physique. Just another reason for the shock of him hitting a home run. But the hitter who bunted on him didn't think he would be able to get to the ball and make a play in time before the runner reached the base. The play at 7:35 is Kevin Pillar. One of the greatest defensive left/center fielders of our generation. That play was one of the best home run robs I can think of in a long time. That wall behind him is 12 feet tall approx. (3.65 meters). There is a better video that covers just that catch with better/closer views of it. ua-cam.com/video/_2iT5qaifhc/v-deo.html&ab_channel=MLB
@@sanketdeshpande369 I don’t recall ever seeing “points” used in baseball? Why not tell him that runs are used instead of “points”? This isn’t basketball my guy
7:44 - Believe me, he wasn't playing around with the ball, it just got past him, but he had such a strong arm, he still got the baserunner. These guys are always serious when they they're on the field.
Only one MLB fatality. Other deaths have occurred in lower levels of the sport. And that player did indeed get hit in the head by a pitched ball. Back then, not many pitchers could throw the ball at 100mph or faster but they had no protection other than a felt cap. Today 100 mph is rather commonplace.
@@docbearmb Fan hurt by Former Cubs player at houston astros game girl suffering seizures. Albert Almora. Many pitchers have been hit by the batted ball and had to be carted off field.
@@gospeljoy5713 It was in the context of an observation about batters hit by pitches. That count in MLB remains at 1; Ray Chapman hit by Carl Mays in 1920.
It’s actually incredible that it didn’t happen to fans more then it has, I mean fans especially sitting along the third base line are literally getting foul balls that are lined by a professional player hit at them haha
And here's the answer to the most confusing thing you'll see in these... when the ball is caught in the air, yes, the hitter is out. AND... if anyone was on base for the pitch has moved, they have to tag up. They have to go back and touch the base they started from before attempting to advance. Some players will head off too early thinking the ball will hit the ground (once it does, anything goes... keep running!) and end up in no man's land with the ball getting tossed around them, like in the early clip. A runner must advance though, if the next guy's coming. That's where the throws to the bases end up with players out, there's someone behind them and they have no choice but to go for the next base. Baseman has the ball and touches that base, runner's out. The rules are simple except when they aren't, but thankfully the tag up rules (hit caught in the air, tag your last base) is the only unusual one seen with regularity. There are some pretty obtuse ones for rare situations though; if you've taken your third strike you're allowed to try to steal first base if the catcher loses the ball, if your ball bounces over the fence you get basically half a home run ("ground rule double"), and so on.
General rules of baseball that apply in this video are as follows: 1. If the ball is caught by the fielding team before it hits the ground, the batter is out, thus why there are so many clips of players jumping to catch the ball. 3 outs and the teams switch. 2. If a player running the bases is either a)tagged with the ball or b)the baseman is touching the plate with the ball in hand before the runner touches the plate, the runner is out. If the previous base is open, the runner can run back to that base if they can make it without getting tagged. 3. That small hit is called a "bunt" it's occasionally used in certain situations, typically to give a player on 3rd base the chance to run home and score. 4. A grand slam is when you hit a home run while the bases are loaded (a player on every base) getting 4 points for your team. 5. A double play is when the fielding team gets two runners out in one play.
The ball is kinda hard to track on tv especially in older games, but you can look at the way the crowd moves to find where it lands in the stands. Most fans move toward the land spot to catch since you can take it home as a souvenir.
It's officially been 100 years since the last time a ball impact caused a death, or a player died on the field for any reason. You can get seriously screwed up if you're hit, but for a league that has 2,430 games a year... MLB baseball is pretty safe as sports go.
Even though it's been 100 years since Ray Chapman died, Cleveland fans still leave balls, bats, gloves, and caps at his grave and after the world series loss in 2016 some people even went there to leave their rally towels.
The player (a pitcher) who made the behind-the-back flip early in the video is the same player who hit the home run soon after, wearing a blue-and-gray uniform. His name is Bartolo Colon and he's one of the most beloved players of recent years. He weighs 300 lbs and obviously doesn't care about his weight, and is lovingly nicknamed "Big Sexy." The behind the back throw was merely an act of genius. The home run was routine as home runs go; what was extraordinary was pitchers aren't expected to be capable hitters, and the 40-year-old Colon, after two decades in the major leagues, had never hit a home run in his entire career. This was why the fans, announcers, and his teammates lost their minds when it finally happened.
There is a book you might like called "Baseball for Dummies" written by Joe Morgan who was a very good player in his time. That will give you the basics to understand the game. Bartolo Colon - shown at 2:00 and 2:15 - was a very good pitcher, but a terrible batter! The home run in the clip was his first home run (and I think his only one) so everyone was pleasantly surprised. Even the opponents had to smirk about it.
7:33 A grand slam is a home run hit with all three bases occupied by base runners ("bases loaded"), thereby scoring four runs -the most possible in one play.
@5:22, They teach baseball players to call for the ball and call off other fielders when they're catching the ball to prevent collisions, but at the Major League level, there are so many fans in the stands that the players usually can't hear each other.
kevin pillard is my fav player hes the guy you said he knew he was the man when he got up after the catch lol kevin pillard always puts his heart,sweat and blood into every game truly a spectacle of a player almost every game he has super man catches and homerun robberys you should react to some of his highlights with toronto bluejays
You need to see Bo Jackson run the wall chasing down a fly ball. Bo Jackson incredible. He played both NFL & MLB, and exceled at both! You should do an reaction video on Bo Jackson! Best two sport athlete ever!
2:13 That "batter" is actually a pitcher, Bartolo Colon. "Big Sexy" as he is known is not a big fan of batting in the first place. In fact, watching him bat is quite comical. His career began in 1997. This clip was from 2016. That was his first career home run.
You have to understand one thing about Bartolo Colon. He is over 40 years old and does not look like a professional athlete at all. He is over weight and ancient in baseball terms. But he has so much fun playing the game and is so much fun to watch. When he hit that homerun in San Diego it was his first career homerun at the age of 40. The things he pulls off is amazing and so hilarious at the same time.
Also, when they hit the balls short, it's because there is a runner on third coming to home plate to score a point. They end up getting out, and so its called a "sacrifice bunt". The technique is called a "Bunt".
One thing that may be hard to understand, there are force outs and there are times you have to tag the runner. A forced out is when the runner can only go to the next base. In that case the defensive player only needs to touch the base while holding the ball. When a batter puts the ball in play, he can only go to first base. So the most common play is a throw to first before the batter reaches first base while the first baseman receives the ball with his foot is on first base. If a player has a choice of going forward or back to a previous base, he must be tagged out. LAA is Los Angeles Angels. The team Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani play for. Although the team is actually in Anaheim California, home of Disneyland. Watch the team from Britain in the World Baseball Classic.
The guy who made the behind the back throw is Bartolo Colon. The hitter didn't hit it weakly on purpose, but that is sometimes a strategy. Bartolo also was the guy who hit the one home run to left field. The announcers were making such a big deal out of that because he's a pitcher and pitchers are notoriously bad hitters. In the American League (as opposed to the National League) they have a designated hitter who hits in their place. That was from near the end of his career. He retired a couple years ago at age 45. Between his age and being a kind of pudgy guy when he did something athletic it always made the highlight reels. He was a freak of nature. As for the speed of the ball... yep. It has killed people. Batters wear helmets now so no player has died in about a hundred years at the major league level, but a fan was killed by a ball hit into foul territory just a couple years ago. There has been a big press to increase the netting down the baselines to protect the fans. Baseballs may be about the size of a tennis ball but a tennis ball weighs about 2 grams. I baseball weighs about 149 grams. When I was a kid Andre Dawson got hit in the face. Other players have been hit in the face since then, but this was a particularly brutal example. ua-cam.com/video/T71CjTqrHOA/v-deo.html
There are two kinds of outs: force out and tag outs. The difference is one of the things that makes baseball hard to understand for people who didn’t grow up with it. Here’s the thing about baseball. It’s difficult to appreciate how hard it is to hit a pitched ball. On a 100 mph fastball, the hitter’s brain has less than 100 milliseconds to process the information and decide when and where to swing. There is an amazing documentary called “Fastball” that details the science and art of this, but here’s an article about it. projects.seattletimes.com/2017/mariners-preview/science/
It gets even worse when fly-outs and strikeouts get folded in too. I can think of two more types as well, force-outs at base following a fly-out for a runner that didn't tag-up and whatever they call it when one runner passes up his lead runner. Might be five typed, six types, or even more. We definitely take how complex the rules are for granted, most of us learn the rules as children.
At 4:44, that type of hit is called a bunt. The batter simply pushes the ball down the left or right line to make it hard for the pticher or catcher to reach before the batter reaches 1st base.
You might consider looking at SB Nation's UA-cam video about the 2016 World Series (Championship series), between the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians. The Cubs hadn't won the World Series for over a hundred years and the Indiana for 68 years. Few, if any fans were alive since their team had last been a champion. You'll enjoy the drama of the situation. You were wondering what LAA stood for during the video, it stands for Los Angeles Angel's. There is also a LAD, which represents the Los Angeles Dodgers. There are two New York city teams and two Chicago teams as well. NYY = Yankees, NYM = Mets or Metropolitans, CHC = Cubs and CHW = White Sox. There are some UA-cam videos giving a rudimentary explanation of the rules, though if you can find an American and watch a ballgame with him and he can explain the game as it happens. Some people think that baseball is not that difficult, but in many ways it's the most difficult team sport to master. As a hitter, if you fail 7 out of 10 times, you're considered a star. A hitter has less than the time to blink to decide if he should swing at a pitch. In that same amount of time he has to recognize what type of pitch is being thrown; a fastball (2 seam, 4 seam, or split finger), breaking ball (curve, slider, and screwball) change up (meant to appear like a fastball, but is thrown 15-20 miles per hour slower. These pitches vary in speed from 70 to 100 mph, can break to the right, left or straight down into the dirt at the last moment. Batted balls can reach speeds of 120 mph
So with the second clip, pitchers throw all sorts of pitches to confuse the batters and prevent them from getting a hit. It's harder to hit a homerun than you'd think. So the batter could only tap the ball because that's the only way he could hit the ball with the way it was moving against his swing
If you haven't learned the rules of baseball yet, the three main ways of getting out are strikes, catching balls in the air before they hit the ground, or the base-men catching the ball or tagging the player before they get to the base.
Baseball might be the hardest sport to play. One of the best players ever put it simply "It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square." To top it off the ball is going 80-110kph. A batter has to respond quicker than blinking a eye.
To answer your question about if you can be killed by a baseball…. Yes. In the 150 year history of professional baseball only 1 player has died as a result of an on field injury. It was a batter struck in the head a long time ago before players wore batting helmets. But often times fielders throwing the ball to each other throw the ball at speeds just as fast as when pitchers are pitching to the batter… so a fielder (not wearing a helmet) in the wrong place at the wrong time or a base runner who’s helmet falls off (happens all the time) it could happen again.
I suggest focusing on one specific type of "great play" like best bunts, or greatest double plays, etc. This way you're not trying to understand so many different things.
Baseballs are hard to keep track of if you don't watch very much. They can be hit off the bat going 90-110 mph. I watch a lot of baseball so i don't usually have a problem. But when you only have four pixels for a certain clip it can be very hard no matter who's watching.
Ppl were going crazy over that ball bc it was a record breaking home run. It set the record for most home runs in a career so that ball was gna be worth A LOT OF MONEY....
First time on your channel. It works when it is a force play. First base is one of those bases. The way he hit it is called a bunt. A very special skill. Catches like this may be the result of these mega=salaries. A grand slam is when the bases are full and someone hits a homerun. Four (4) runs just like that. Suggestion - Look up MLB double plays. Also check out a catcher named Sal. He is amazing good. The video title is - Sal the Canon.
Side note for the clip at around 2:30 when you said he hit it into next week: that was bartolo colon, a pitcher (guy who throws the ball to rhe batter). Typically pitchers are terrible batters because in order to get good enough to pitch at thw major league level you kinda have to dedicate all your time to it. Also, he was in his 40s in that clip witch is pretty old as far as major league players.
Actually, the guy that you called “saucy” that caught that comebacker was on the Texas Rangers, not the Los Angeles Angels. But I can understand why people would think that was LAA because of the red uniforms, but those unis are actually the Rangers alternates.
So pitchers usually throw the ball between 70 mph to over 100 mph depending on the pitch and the pitcher. MLB fastballs usually run between 90-100 mph with breaking balls between 70-80 mph. This is fast enough to kill someone because a batter was killed back in the 1920s after getting hit in the head
when they hit the ball straight down into the ground and have it and have it roll and they don't take a full swing it's called a butt and a butt is designed to make the players have to run to the ball and think about what they where they need to go with the ball to get that out in baseball there's a few different ways you can get out one is if you hit the ball in the air and somebody catches it before it hits the ground that's an out if you catch the ball after if the ball hits the ground and bounces into your glove you can either tag that player or throw the ball to the player that's at the base that he's running towards and if he catches it before that player touches the the runner touches the the base that player is out!
there is no better feeling than making a diving play in the outfield. Ive done it several times and honestly, I never "decided" to dive, it just happened lol. Sometimes you end up diving, only to realize you didn't really need to.....oops lol. but typically the outfielders are the most athletic guys on the team. they have to be fast, have a good glove, and be able to throw it hard and accurate. I know the infielders are going to come at me for that statement, but oh well. get good.
Infield fly rule, automatic out, regardless if caught or not. Also in run down the runner is way out of the basepath - nearest player gets put out - called by umpire. Also if one base runner passes another base runner. Another is if a runner fails to touch a base, the defense realizes it , then the pitcher, before throwing to the next batter, throws the ball to a player near the missed base and the fielder steps on it, the runner is out, even if he hit a seeming home run. Got to touch them all in order.
Is the LA dodgers and the other team was a Cincinnati reds and a grand slam is when the bases are loaded meaning there's a player on first second and third base and the batter comes up and hits a home run it's called a grand slam oh and by the way there's another MLB video you should check out call headshots!
BB trivia: there are 30 teams 29 American one Canadian over 260 teams in the minor league and over 300 teams at the college level over 1/2 million play at the high school level. The MLB is the second wealthiest sports league in the world, over 1/4 of players come from outside the US most from Latin American countries. the number one sport in Japan is baseball, its very popular in south Korea also. kids have been buying and trading baseball cards for over 100 years and some are very valuable a 1909 Honus Wagner goes for $3.12 million. team names usually will reference local culture or industry or wildlife. baseball gets mentioned a lot in American movies and tv shows.people from all over the world use terms that come from baseball you have used some yourself and never knew it came from baseball. and you don't want to get hit by a baseball they are hard and nasty.
After scrolling through many of these comments I've come to realize that many of the posters trying to explain baseball don't know what they're talking about.
Could the ball kill you ? Short answer is yes ... rubber center, wrapped in twine, then there’s a leather cover . Some pitchers have been known to throw the ball over a hundred miles an hour ... the pitchers mound and the plate are 60’ apart ...
It's just not that easy to hit 95-100 mph fastballs and spinning breaking balls. There's a lot of weak contact and whiffs, like that second play where Bartolo Colon made a behind the back throw, which never happens....that was weak contact off the bottom of the bat. But when a power hitter connects on the barrel, the ball goes a LONG way.
Greetings from South Carolina, I just subscribed to your channel and you look so much like my cousin lol. I have to suggestions for you to react to. COLLEGE FOOTBALL MIRACLES PART 1, by Hylights and it's about 12:00 long. The next video is, GREATEST AMERICAN SPORTS FAN, by Jordan D and it's about 18:48 long.
I feel terrible about forgetting this channel...
I've beena. coach for the sport of Baseball for almost 20 years now and i can say this..... Baseball is the most difficult and hardest sport to learn. You have to be very athletic and intelligent to understand baseball.
The third video is Bartolo Colon hitting a home run. The home run itself (hitting it outside the park) was not so impressive: what was impressive was that Bartolo Colon did it.
Colon is a pitcher. Because pitchers have a physically taxing job, they usually only play every five days. Because of that, and because of the speciality of their position, they usually really don't focus on their hitting, and are usually not the greatest hitters.
Add in the fact that Bartolo Colon, while a great pitcher, was hardly the most athletic guy, and it was more just exciting that _he_ hit the home run.
Then why did you? Just react to baseball again, it’s that fucking simple
Bartolo’s home run was described as “impossible” because he is the oldest man player to hit his first home run. He was 42 years 349 days old.
As a mets fan who watched every game that was certainly a part of it, but he was also a pitcher and a horrendous hitter, he would constantly spin himself around and have his helmet fall off on his swings
Yes and that was also insane because it was his 1st home run
And it was his first, and he’s a terrible hitter
And he was the player that did the behind the back throw to 1st, too.
He was also a pitcher, and pitchers are not very good hitters because they spend more time on there pitching then hitting.
Jackie Robinson was the first Black player in MLB. His number 42 is retired by every team in MLB. He also participated in the Liberation of France in 1944 as a tank commander!
I love that even a non baseball fan appreciates the crack of a bat
4:26 That’s called a ‘Bunt’. A Bunt is a batting technique in baseball. To bunt, the batter loosely holds the bat in front of home plate and intentionally taps the ball into play. A properly executed bunt will create weak contact with the ball and/or strategically direct it, forcing the infielders to make a difficult defensive play to record an out.
To answer some questions:
1:45 No, the player did not intend to hit the ball that softly. Groundballs are usually outs, as you saw. Although it was it so softly that the pitcher had very little time to run over and throw it to 1st base. The batter may have actually made it if the pitcher wasn't literally a freak of nature.
2:03 Yes, if you have the ball, tagging the base with any part of your body results in an out, but only for Force Outs. A "Force Out" is when the runner must advance to the next base because the runner behind his moving to occupy his current base. So if you have a runner on 1st and 2nd, tagging the base at 2nd is enough to get an out. You must tag the runner at third since there is no force. Running from home to 1st is always a force.
3:28 Both player were in a "Rundown" or a "Pickle". It is when a runner gets trapped off the bases by two players. They throw the ball back and forth hoping to eventually tag the runner. They then threw it to 3rd to trap the runner on 3rd who was hoping to score. And it wasn't a force at home, so he need to be tagged.
4:03 Yes, 4 home runs in a game is a big deal. Heck, for HITS in a game is a big deal. The stadium is empty because its the Cincinnati Reds. They're... not the best. But they bodied my team that day.
4:25 That was a bunt. It's an intentionally soft hit ball. The idea is to force the fielder to move in to get allowing you more time to get to the base.
4:51 The batter hit a ball into right field and the runner on 2nd ran to 3rd. The outfielder, Ichiro Suzuki, a Japanese player, throw and absolute cannon to throw out the runner. Baseball outfielders need to be able to quickly recover the ball if they don't catch it and get it back to the infield. Basically the throw had a lot of power and was very accurate. Very hard to have both.
6:05 That is called a "Comebacker". Pitchers only have a split second to protect themselves. Actually the team in red was the Texas Rangers. Their colors are red, blue, and white. The graphic is a bit misleading, but most MLB teams have red on their uniforms. The other team is indeed from Los Angeles. The city has two teams though. LAD is the Los Angeles Dodgers and LAA is the Los Angeles Angels. The name is a bit on the nose.
7:23 A grand slam is when a team as a player on 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. The batter at the plate hit a home run (a ball hit over the fence in fair territory). Every runner gets to advance to home, resulting in 4 points. It's the most points you can get at once.
7:42 Sometime outfielders need to play the ball off the wall because it is rolling in too fast to chase, so they wait for the rebound and let it come to them. That player kind of messed it up, but made up for his blunder by throwing out the guy running to 3rd. Judging by where he was, he probably threw the ball over 280 feet (256 meters).
8:05 Yes, baseballs have killed both players and fans. Pitchers can throw over 100 miles per hour (160.9 kph).
10:00 That team was the Washington (D.C) Nationals.
I'm not sure if anyone has explained this, but sometimes the crowd looks pretty "empty" during regular season games because there are SO many games during the regular season, many throughout the middle of the week (a team usually plays 162 games in the regular season before playoffs). So most fans can't make it to every single game throughout a season, but even if the outfield crowd is sparse, usually the main crowd behind home plate is pretty crowded. Even though the crowd looks sparse, trust that the TV/stream numbers are doing alright. Having that said, once the regular season is over and we get into playoffs, the baseball crowds are HUGE and pretty lit. There are some good baseball crowd videos that show that crazy and fun it can be!
Growing up with baseball we see it as simple, but trying to explain it all to a British fellow I met here on business I found it quite difficult. There's a lot of subtleties to the game which I didn't really realize till I tried explaining.
As a non-fan, that's what I enjoy about these videos. It reminds me just how much baseball permeates our culture. Even though I've never followed the sport, I still understand what's going on and I appreciate the reminder that it's not as obvious as it seems to us. And, of course, the highlights are impressive whether you're a fan or not.
Grand slam 3 runners on base and batter hits home run. Pitcher throws ball can reach speeds over 100 ball travels off bat ever faster. Batter is either out if ball is caught in the air over ball reaches first base before runner or he is tagged out. Force out ball beats runner to bag before he gets there. Runner can be tagged out or forced out.
5:38 that's mike trout, there's an entire video just on him.and yes the sound of the bat hitting the ball is a great sound.
Most players throw the ball around at 70-83 MPH but the pitcher himself, the one in throwing it at people with a bat, average 95 MPH with a few throwing up to 105.
Converting those speeds to metric units for ease of new eyes that aren't accustomed to MPH:
112 - 136 KPH, for position players.
152 - 169 KPH, for pitchers. Nice.
one of the greatest games was the seventh and final game of the 2016 World Series Cubs vs Indians. Cubs had not won world series since 1907 and 1908.
ua-cam.com/video/3Y_ayKBzWVM/v-deo.html not shown in this clip a rain delay that stopped play after the 9th inning which was regulation. Game went into extra innings tied last game of the World Series.
When Colon hit the home run, they weren't going crazy because of the distance it was hit, they were amazed because he is a pitcher (pitchers are the worst hitters on the field in general), and he is really old in relative terms for an athlete in baseball, let alone other sports. Incidentally, he is the same guy who flipped the ball behind his back to get the runner out at 1st base. Yes, hitting the ball softly in the infield is a strategy known as a bunt. Colon is not known for his speed or agility, as you can tell by his physique. Just another reason for the shock of him hitting a home run. But the hitter who bunted on him didn't think he would be able to get to the ball and make a play in time before the runner reached the base.
The play at 7:35 is Kevin Pillar. One of the greatest defensive left/center fielders of our generation. That play was one of the best home run robs I can think of in a long time. That wall behind him is 12 feet tall approx. (3.65 meters). There is a better video that covers just that catch with better/closer views of it. ua-cam.com/video/_2iT5qaifhc/v-deo.html&ab_channel=MLB
Grand Slam means the bases were loaded and the HR scored 4 points. It's the most you can score at once.
Don’t try and explain baseball to someone when you don’t even know the correct scoring terms 😂
“Points” 💀
RUNS
@@MrUsername428 bro he said points to make it easier for the guy to understand. Pretty self explanatory
@@sanketdeshpande369 I don’t recall ever seeing “points” used in baseball? Why not tell him that runs are used instead of “points”? This isn’t basketball my guy
what makes the Bartolo Colon home run so great is that he is a pitcher and pitchers are not known to be good hitters. So he hitting one is a big deal
7:44 - Believe me, he wasn't playing around with the ball, it just got past him, but he had such a strong arm, he still got the baserunner. These guys are always serious when they they're on the field.
Yes there has only been 1 fatality but that was back in 1920
Only one MLB fatality. Other deaths have occurred in lower levels of the sport. And that player did indeed get hit in the head by a pitched ball. Back then, not many pitchers could throw the ball at 100mph or faster but they had no protection other than a felt cap. Today 100 mph is rather commonplace.
@@docbearmb Fan hurt by Former Cubs player at houston astros game girl suffering seizures. Albert Almora. Many pitchers have been hit by the batted ball and had to be carted off field.
@@gospeljoy5713 It was in the context of an observation about batters hit by pitches. That count in MLB remains at 1; Ray Chapman hit by Carl Mays in 1920.
It’s actually incredible that it didn’t happen to fans more then it has, I mean fans especially sitting along the third base line are literally getting foul balls that are lined by a professional player hit at them haha
And here's the answer to the most confusing thing you'll see in these... when the ball is caught in the air, yes, the hitter is out. AND... if anyone was on base for the pitch has moved, they have to tag up. They have to go back and touch the base they started from before attempting to advance. Some players will head off too early thinking the ball will hit the ground (once it does, anything goes... keep running!) and end up in no man's land with the ball getting tossed around them, like in the early clip.
A runner must advance though, if the next guy's coming. That's where the throws to the bases end up with players out, there's someone behind them and they have no choice but to go for the next base. Baseman has the ball and touches that base, runner's out.
The rules are simple except when they aren't, but thankfully the tag up rules (hit caught in the air, tag your last base) is the only unusual one seen with regularity. There are some pretty obtuse ones for rare situations though; if you've taken your third strike you're allowed to try to steal first base if the catcher loses the ball, if your ball bounces over the fence you get basically half a home run ("ground rule double"), and so on.
10:45 That sound has a term/name. It's called 'the crack of the bat".
"Grand Slam" - A home-run with the bases loaded. Which means the team scores four runs in a single at-bat.
General rules of baseball that apply in this video are as follows:
1. If the ball is caught by the fielding team before it hits the ground, the batter is out, thus why there are so many clips of players jumping to catch the ball. 3 outs and the teams switch.
2. If a player running the bases is either a)tagged with the ball or b)the baseman is touching the plate with the ball in hand before the runner touches the plate, the runner is out. If the previous base is open, the runner can run back to that base if they can make it without getting tagged.
3. That small hit is called a "bunt" it's occasionally used in certain situations, typically to give a player on 3rd base the chance to run home and score.
4. A grand slam is when you hit a home run while the bases are loaded (a player on every base) getting 4 points for your team.
5. A double play is when the fielding team gets two runners out in one play.
The ball is kinda hard to track on tv especially in older games, but you can look at the way the crowd moves to find where it lands in the stands. Most fans move toward the land spot to catch since you can take it home as a souvenir.
It's officially been 100 years since the last time a ball impact caused a death, or a player died on the field for any reason. You can get seriously screwed up if you're hit, but for a league that has 2,430 games a year... MLB baseball is pretty safe as sports go.
Even though it's been 100 years since Ray Chapman died, Cleveland fans still leave balls, bats, gloves, and caps at his grave and after the world series loss in 2016 some people even went there to leave their rally towels.
It was the last and only time actually. At the Major League level anyway.
The player (a pitcher) who made the behind-the-back flip early in the video is the same player who hit the home run soon after, wearing a blue-and-gray uniform. His name is Bartolo Colon and he's one of the most beloved players of recent years. He weighs 300 lbs and obviously doesn't care about his weight, and is lovingly nicknamed "Big Sexy." The behind the back throw was merely an act of genius. The home run was routine as home runs go; what was extraordinary was pitchers aren't expected to be capable hitters, and the 40-year-old Colon, after two decades in the major leagues, had never hit a home run in his entire career. This was why the fans, announcers, and his teammates lost their minds when it finally happened.
There is a book you might like called "Baseball for Dummies" written by Joe Morgan who was a very good player in his time. That will give you the basics to understand the game. Bartolo Colon - shown at 2:00 and 2:15 - was a very good pitcher, but a terrible batter! The home run in the clip was his first home run (and I think his only one) so everyone was pleasantly surprised. Even the opponents had to smirk about it.
7:33 A grand slam is a home run hit with all three bases occupied by base runners ("bases loaded"), thereby scoring four runs -the most possible in one play.
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They teach baseball players to call for the ball and call off other fielders when they're catching the ball to prevent collisions, but at the Major League level, there are so many fans in the stands that the players usually can't hear each other.
MARK McGWIRE - HOME RUN DERBY AT FENWAY PARK.. EPIC
kevin pillard is my fav player hes the guy you said he knew he was the man when he got up after the catch lol kevin pillard always puts his heart,sweat and blood into every game truly a spectacle of a player almost every game he has super man catches and homerun robberys you should react to some of his highlights with toronto bluejays
You need to see Bo Jackson run the wall chasing down a fly ball. Bo Jackson incredible. He played both NFL & MLB, and exceled at both! You should do an reaction video on Bo Jackson! Best two sport athlete ever!
2:13 That "batter" is actually a pitcher, Bartolo Colon. "Big Sexy" as he is known is not a big fan of batting in the first place. In fact, watching him bat is quite comical. His career began in 1997. This clip was from 2016. That was his first career home run.
Honestly, your understanding of the game is pretty good for a first time viewer.
If you want a quick laugh, though, check out MLB Oddities.
You have to understand one thing about Bartolo Colon. He is over 40 years old and does not look like a professional athlete at all. He is over weight and ancient in baseball terms. But he has so much fun playing the game and is so much fun to watch. When he hit that homerun in San Diego it was his first career homerun at the age of 40. The things he pulls off is amazing and so hilarious at the same time.
Also, when they hit the balls short, it's because there is a runner on third coming to home plate to score a point. They end up getting out, and so its called a "sacrifice bunt". The technique is called a "Bunt".
One thing that may be hard to understand, there are force outs and there are times you have to tag the runner. A forced out is when the runner can only go to the next base. In that case the defensive player only needs to touch the base while holding the ball. When a batter puts the ball in play, he can only go to first base. So the most common play is a throw to first before the batter reaches first base while the first baseman receives the ball with his foot is on first base.
If a player has a choice of going forward or back to a previous base, he must be tagged out.
LAA is Los Angeles Angels. The team Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani play for. Although the team is actually in Anaheim California, home of Disneyland.
Watch the team from Britain in the World Baseball Classic.
I need you to watch more MLB highlights. Like best playoff moments or something
MLB loudest and best crowds by dope mixes
Or watch highlights of certain players like the $340 million man Fernando Tatis jr
The guy who made the behind the back throw is Bartolo Colon. The hitter didn't hit it weakly on purpose, but that is sometimes a strategy. Bartolo also was the guy who hit the one home run to left field. The announcers were making such a big deal out of that because he's a pitcher and pitchers are notoriously bad hitters. In the American League (as opposed to the National League) they have a designated hitter who hits in their place. That was from near the end of his career. He retired a couple years ago at age 45. Between his age and being a kind of pudgy guy when he did something athletic it always made the highlight reels. He was a freak of nature.
As for the speed of the ball... yep. It has killed people. Batters wear helmets now so no player has died in about a hundred years at the major league level, but a fan was killed by a ball hit into foul territory just a couple years ago. There has been a big press to increase the netting down the baselines to protect the fans. Baseballs may be about the size of a tennis ball but a tennis ball weighs about 2 grams. I baseball weighs about 149 grams.
When I was a kid Andre Dawson got hit in the face. Other players have been hit in the face since then, but this was a particularly brutal example.
ua-cam.com/video/T71CjTqrHOA/v-deo.html
There are two kinds of outs: force out and tag outs. The difference is one of the things that makes baseball hard to understand for people who didn’t grow up with it.
Here’s the thing about baseball. It’s difficult to appreciate how hard it is to hit a pitched ball. On a 100 mph fastball, the hitter’s brain has less than 100 milliseconds to process the information and decide when and where to swing. There is an amazing documentary called “Fastball” that details the science and art of this, but here’s an article about it.
projects.seattletimes.com/2017/mariners-preview/science/
It gets even worse when fly-outs and strikeouts get folded in too. I can think of two more types as well, force-outs at base following a fly-out for a runner that didn't tag-up and whatever they call it when one runner passes up his lead runner.
Might be five typed, six types, or even more. We definitely take how complex the rules are for granted, most of us learn the rules as children.
At least there is only one fundamental way to score a run - crossing home plate after stepping on each base (in order).
At 4:44, that type of hit is called a bunt. The batter simply pushes the ball down the left or right line to make it hard for the pticher or catcher to reach before the batter reaches 1st base.
You might consider looking at SB Nation's UA-cam video about the 2016 World Series (Championship series), between the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians. The Cubs hadn't won the World Series for over a hundred years and the Indiana for 68 years. Few, if any fans were alive since their team had last been a champion. You'll enjoy the drama of the situation.
You were wondering what LAA stood for during the video, it stands for Los Angeles Angel's. There is also a LAD, which represents the Los Angeles Dodgers. There are two New York city teams and two Chicago teams as well. NYY = Yankees, NYM = Mets or Metropolitans, CHC = Cubs and CHW = White Sox.
There are some UA-cam videos giving a rudimentary explanation of the rules, though if you can find an American and watch a ballgame with him and he can explain the game as it happens. Some people think that baseball is not that difficult, but in many ways it's the most difficult team sport to master. As a hitter, if you fail 7 out of 10 times, you're considered a star. A hitter has less than the time to blink to decide if he should swing at a pitch. In that same amount of time he has to recognize what type of pitch is being thrown; a fastball (2 seam, 4 seam, or split finger), breaking ball (curve, slider, and screwball) change up (meant to appear like a fastball, but is thrown 15-20 miles per hour slower. These pitches vary in speed from 70 to 100 mph, can break to the right, left or straight down into the dirt at the last moment. Batted balls can reach speeds of 120 mph
So with the second clip, pitchers throw all sorts of pitches to confuse the batters and prevent them from getting a hit. It's harder to hit a homerun than you'd think. So the batter could only tap the ball because that's the only way he could hit the ball with the way it was moving against his swing
If you haven't learned the rules of baseball yet, the three main ways of getting out are strikes, catching balls in the air before they hit the ground, or the base-men catching the ball or tagging the player before they get to the base.
That Southwest going north was Trout.
Its refreshing to see the game I really enjoy through the eyes of a newbie. Great reaction. I'll be looking out for more.
We have a term for someone who snatches away a home run with a catch. We would say, "You was robbed!"
Baseball might be the hardest sport to play. One of the best players ever put it simply "It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square." To top it off the ball is going 80-110kph. A batter has to respond quicker than blinking a eye.
Yes, a baseball to the head could certainly be life threatening. That's why batters wear helmets (and sometimes pitchers in youth leagues).
my favorite is when they call bases the tile things or the little square
To answer your question about if you can be killed by a baseball…. Yes. In the 150 year history of professional baseball only 1 player has died as a result of an on field injury. It was a batter struck in the head a long time ago before players wore batting helmets. But often times fielders throwing the ball to each other throw the ball at speeds just as fast as when pitchers are pitching to the batter… so a fielder (not wearing a helmet) in the wrong place at the wrong time or a base runner who’s helmet falls off (happens all the time) it could happen again.
I suggest focusing on one specific type of "great play" like best bunts, or greatest double plays, etc. This way you're not trying to understand so many different things.
Holding bat straight & letting ball hit the bat (instead of swinging the bat) is called a bunt.
the jim edmonds diving catch may be the best of all time.
Willy Mays would like a word.
Baseballs are hard to keep track of if you don't watch very much. They can be hit off the bat going 90-110 mph. I watch a lot of baseball so i don't usually have a problem. But when you only have four pixels for a certain clip it can be very hard no matter who's watching.
Ppl were going crazy over that ball bc it was a record breaking home run. It set the record for most home runs in a career so that ball was gna be worth A LOT OF MONEY....
Playing outfield is awesome
First time on your channel. It works when it is a force play. First base is one of those bases. The way he hit it is called a bunt. A very special skill. Catches like this may be the result of these mega=salaries. A grand slam is when the bases are full and someone hits a homerun. Four (4) runs just like that. Suggestion - Look up MLB double plays. Also check out a catcher named Sal. He is amazing good. The video title is - Sal the Canon.
I have lived in Europe for a few years of my life but I can NOT pinpoint your accent to save my life. You actually sound American in a weird way.
Side note for the clip at around 2:30 when you said he hit it into next week: that was bartolo colon, a pitcher (guy who throws the ball to rhe batter). Typically pitchers are terrible batters because in order to get good enough to pitch at thw major league level you kinda have to dedicate all your time to it. Also, he was in his 40s in that clip witch is pretty old as far as major league players.
2:10 is added in because the batter is a pitcher
Actually, the guy that you called “saucy” that caught that comebacker was on the Texas Rangers, not the Los Angeles Angels. But I can understand why people would think that was LAA because of the red uniforms, but those unis are actually the Rangers alternates.
Lol he call the base a tile thing lol
6:30 it’s the los angeles angels
Yeah but they are actually the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim or the Anaheim Angels.
So pitchers usually throw the ball between 70 mph to over 100 mph depending on the pitch and the pitcher. MLB fastballs usually run between 90-100 mph with breaking balls between 70-80 mph. This is fast enough to kill someone because a batter was killed back in the 1920s after getting hit in the head
Your American accent is great. Good work
U only have to tag the runner if he isn't being forced to advance by another runner behind him. Otherwise, you can tag the base he's forced to go to.
when they hit the ball straight down into the ground and have it and have it roll and they don't take a full swing it's called a butt and a butt is designed to make the players have to run to the ball and think about what they where they need to go with the ball to get that out in baseball there's a few different ways you can get out one is if you hit the ball in the air and somebody catches it before it hits the ground that's an out if you catch the ball after if the ball hits the ground and bounces into your glove you can either tag that player or throw the ball to the player that's at the base that he's running towards and if he catches it before that player touches the the runner touches the the base that player is out!
there is no better feeling than making a diving play in the outfield. Ive done it several times and honestly, I never "decided" to dive, it just happened lol. Sometimes you end up diving, only to realize you didn't really need to.....oops lol. but typically the outfielders are the most athletic guys on the team. they have to be fast, have a good glove, and be able to throw it hard and accurate. I know the infielders are going to come at me for that statement, but oh well. get good.
Four ways to get a guy "out" - Catch the fly ball. - Tag the runner with the ball. - Force out on the base. - Strike-out at bat.
Infield fly rule, automatic out, regardless if caught or not. Also in run down the runner is way out of the basepath - nearest player gets put out - called by umpire. Also if one base runner passes another base runner. Another is if a runner fails to touch a base, the defense realizes it , then the pitcher, before throwing to the next batter, throws the ball to a player near the missed base and the fielder steps on it, the runner is out, even if he hit a seeming home run. Got to touch them all in order.
@@gemoftheocean Thank you Karen. I'll have the manager correct this comment very promptly.
Omg please come back!!!!!
7:30 a grand slam is when there are people on 1st 2nd and 3rd base and you hit a home run
You gotta check out the home run derby's all the best hitters hitting the with a lot of power
Especially aaron judge or giancarlo stanton
Me: *Seeing a picture of trout inverted* look how they massacred my boy
4:27, that's called a "bunt", employed rarely in specific situations.
Is the LA dodgers and the other team was a Cincinnati reds and a grand slam is when the bases are loaded meaning there's a player on first second and third base and the batter comes up and hits a home run it's called a grand slam oh and by the way there's another MLB video you should check out call headshots!
BB trivia:
there are 30 teams 29 American one Canadian
over 260 teams in the minor league and over 300 teams at the college level over 1/2 million play at the high school level.
The MLB is the second wealthiest sports league in the world, over 1/4 of players come from outside the US most from Latin American countries. the number one sport in Japan is baseball, its very popular in south Korea also. kids have been buying and trading baseball cards for over 100 years and some are very valuable a 1909 Honus Wagner goes for $3.12 million. team names usually will reference local culture or industry or wildlife. baseball gets mentioned a lot in American movies and tv shows.people from all over the world use terms that come from baseball you have used some yourself and never knew it came from baseball. and you don't want to get hit by a baseball they are hard and nasty.
Recommended The Rules of Baseball video. Also, "Destiny in the Desert" 2001 world series
Pitchers throw the ball an average of 90 MPH , when it's hit , the ball comes off the Bat twice as fast.
Not trying to be "that guy" but, no, it doesn't. The exit velocity averages around 102 MPH.
Line drives are closer to 115 though
After scrolling through many of these comments I've come to realize that many of the posters trying to explain baseball don't know what they're talking about.
Theres not enough Big Papi in this vid
Could the ball kill you ? Short answer is yes ... rubber center, wrapped in twine, then there’s a leather cover . Some pitchers have been known to throw the ball over a hundred miles an hour ... the pitchers mound and the plate are 60’ apart ...
This dude must of just moved to Europe or he has the American accent absolutely nailed.
Interesting. Not 1 Bo Jackson highlights in the whole video.
Yeah- it's always satisfying watching him run up the wall...
The plays on the infield are far more difficult than diving and leaping catches in my opinion and experience
Bro you got to check out the best infield throws
More mlb videos please
Also check out, TOP WRECKS OF 2019, by PBR. I'm sure you never seen this sport before and it's not about auto wrecks lol, check it out.
It's just not that easy to hit 95-100 mph fastballs and spinning breaking balls. There's a lot of weak contact and whiffs, like that second play where Bartolo Colon made a behind the back throw, which never happens....that was weak contact off the bottom of the bat. But when a power hitter connects on the barrel, the ball goes a LONG way.
You ask how fast, some of the balls are thrown over l00 miles per hour. Whatever that is in kilometers
need to see kevin pillar and devon white
Watch some Joe Vincent videos on NFL would love your reactions to those
Mike trout highlights plssss. He will prolly go down as the best player to ever play baseball or at least top 3
A backwards K is a strike out
you need to react to Ken Griffey JR highlights
Trout is he only player in ANY sport to play a full game while being diagnosed with trout mout. No one in any sport has ever done that
Learn basic rules, you can enjoy the game. But it'll take years to learn nuances & obscure rules; I'm at over 50 yrs trying 😉
Colons homer wasn’t hard hit its because he’s a pitcher that made it special
Best game in USA
Greetings from South Carolina, I just subscribed to your channel and you look so much like my cousin lol.
I have to suggestions for you to react to. COLLEGE FOOTBALL MIRACLES PART 1, by Hylights and it's about 12:00 long. The next video is, GREATEST AMERICAN SPORTS FAN, by Jordan D and it's about 18:48 long.
post more vids on this channel
Keep posting baseball content. You get the game. Kind of.