The Old School Way The SF Giants Chalk Their Infield
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- Опубліковано 16 лют 2016
- (Published July 5, 2013)
Less than an inch can alter the course of history in Major League Baseball. It is imperative that field dimensions are exact and that umpires have a clearly defined boundary to determine whether a ball is fair or foul.
Have you ever wondered how a Major League Baseball grounds crew manages to lay down perfect foul lines and batters boxes before every game? In the Giants case, they use an old-school box chalking system. Nowadays, not all ballparks use real chalk to lay down the surface lines. Some grounds crew choose to use a spray paint can mounted to a push cart.
In this video, Giants manager of field operations Jeff Windsor provides a detailed behind the scenes look at the precise chalking process at AT&T Park.
How do big league grounds crews get it right every day? The key is having home plate in the exact same spot for every game. Using the apex of the plate, they can accurately determine where each base and the rubber of the pitcher’s mound should be.
Proper Distance From Home Plate:
Second Base: 127 feet, 3-3/8 inches
First Base: 90 feet
Third Base: 90 feet
Pitcher’s rubber on the mound: 60 feet, 6 inches
It should be noted that most grounds crews don’t actually have to measure these distances daily. They have holes in the infield for the bases. - Спорт
I remember watching this dudes dad screw up the foul lines every home game back in high school
Last year our daughters coach was chalking them directly on the line it was during me crazy, then one morning i got there early for a game and i did the lines the learned its 4 in line inside the line
@Mike Smith I think what they are getting at is that your chalk line shouldn’t be centered directly over the line. This would result in 2in of chalk in fair play as well as in foul play. The point of the chalk is so that it kicks up if struck. If centered, a ball could strike the line in foul territory. So the full 4 inch width of the chalk line should be put down just inside the line.
Apparently this guy saw someone doing it wrong and got there early to do it for them....atleast, I think this is what they meant
@Dick Shamash why are you so angry?
@@kylen6430 Shut up Kyle. Like you know what’s goin on anyway. Frat boy wannabe
@@tylerhurley5553 awe, I love you too pal ❤️
I’ve only ever been to giants games and I completely thought this is how the entire mlb did it
nah, usually they have those rollers that they just push across the foul line, they look like fertilizer spreaders kind of
@@Fredboy yea I work grounds at a minor league field. we use a spray can machine for the infield and chalk lines for the warning track. everything on the grass is painted weekly
I was out at my local park recently and there was a robot doing the lines for a soccer game... a kids soccer league.
@@mushieslushie sounds like they need volunteers, you should help instead of complain about a robot painting lines
@@super8bitvideos huh?
A buddy of mine and I coached at a private school our first year out of college and they had us do the “lines”. I was actually really impressed at how bad we were at it, great times.
So cool! I love that it's so old school and hands on 👍 nothing wrong with good old fashion manual work
I used to prep baseball fields for about a year. I'm not even a big baseball fan, but there's nothing better thank chalking a straight line and then spraying down the infield.
This is how they do it in all stadiums. I've been to 10 plus and they've all done it this way. In fact if seen some teams like the cardinals that the 2 batters box is one big structure
Anyone else notice that at 37 seconds it appears the line is an inch or so off?
That’s just because of the angle of the camera compared to the angle of the foul line in relation to the raised line which would appear at a slightly different angle from the camera’s perspective
@Dick Shamash lmao, its be cause the measuring line is an inch or so off of the ground
😅 the line was an inch or so off the ground
0:37
@@jamnraquel You are the hero we need, but do not deserve
A lot of clubs do this for consistency and will use spray paint in the box also.
Outstanding!! you guys rock🤪
Leave the string up. Makes it great for laughs.
Buen trabajo 👍 exelente me gustaría estar hay y trabajar en un estadio de grandes liga ..
This is done at every single damn ball park. Not just there. Safeco does this nightly
not this way
Wow that's way more precise than how we do it now for softball games
I've seen them do this at Wrigley too.
I chalk high school fields with a wheeled chalker and IT SUCKS! need plans for this sive type
I play travel baseball and I swear midway through the game half of the chalk from the base paths has disappeared.
I love the box chalkers. Where can I get one or how do I build it?
Bradley Thompson just like a flour sifter man. the chalk won't fall with a good screen.
Box Chalkers is the name of my new band. We play punk rock for the senior citizen set.
@@toemblem kick out the jams
the line was crooked
braxton lombardi its old school
braxton lombardi fuck you bitch
P Franco I'm a top ranked baseball catcher in Utah so I 99.9% won't live in my mom's basement
P Franco my dad's in prison you insensitive freak. let me guess you yell at your mom if you don't get anything you want
Where do you think he learned to love it. We call your dad Thomas because he loves getting Trained.
That’s interesting. Thanks.
Wow. That was thrilling.
This is so cool
When I coached softball, lining the field was my moment of Zen before the chaos of the game.
very cute lil video
Kudos from a Dodger fan!
At the reds we had a box like that but we used a can to sift the calk with.
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I watch this so many times lol
This is just fucking cool no matter which way you look at it
Thats nice 😌
They do this in Philly as well
Cool!
Just curious..whats the pay like for a field manager who does the chalk lines...after that how do you apply...the 2nd question is rhetorical btw
How else could you get a straight chalk line in the dirt?
Phillies do this also, among a lot of the rest of the league
iSKrīm "wrong"
A ton of ball parks do this
Just show up early and you can watch it happen. Cool stuff.
Why is the circular area behind home plate also chalked?
I see them do this very same thing at Busch Stadium, so it seems like most if not all MLB teams do it this way.
I saw this when I went to the sf/oak game the other day and I have never seen them beat the chalk before😂
That’s elite
I played there 3 times. We saw them do it up close.
Wait so how does the rest of the MLB do it?
It's the way I've seen STL grounds crew do it for last 37 years.
Trying to figure out what's special about this. I'm positive the Cardinals use the box chalkers also. They redo the batters box at least once a game and maybe twice. Can't remember for sure. But it happens during the pregame also, in regards to the box that is. I wish I knew of there was something else involved with this method that made it old school, or if the mallet and sifter method is what's old school about it. The title would make you believe this was specific to San Francisco but maybe that isn't what it meant.
Yea its old school as in how they did it in the beginning. Some places use SPRAY PAINT
@@andrewkaminskas7721 huh. That's wild. Even in our local parks they use a roll cart chalker. If I saw em spray painting the field at an MLB game I'd be questioning the teams commitment to excellence lol.
so if this is the old-school way how do other teams do it now?
"And then a dad of one of the players came with a little chalker on wheels and did the line straighter than we ever thought possible in half the time . . . by himself!"
respect
great
We still do this at my high school
They still do this in Wrigley too
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thats how seattle mariners do it
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The grounds crew at the Phillies stadium let my brother and I chalk the line like that before a game once
How do they get rid of the old chalk first?
Is there another way to do it?
At&t park is probably the nicest park in mlb
What's the new way? I've only ever seen Giants' field prep so I'm used to this and chalking little league fields by hand with a wheeled auger chalker... is there some drone that 3D prints the lines now or something?
actually, yes a wheeled drone does it
@@rickjames302 For real? Like a roomba deal?
@@afraidcone yes, will try to find video
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@@rickjames302 those lines sucked
Whenever i want to read a book in a quiet place i go to At&t park.
jimmy Page is that supposed to be a joke? I don’t know how SF’s attendance is.
Lol I get it it's because it's a library and it's always so quiet over there cause of it's attendence.
Most teams do it this way....unless old school is referring to the fact that the stencils are all individual for the batters area.
the phillies do it too I'm pretty sure every team does it too
Zachary Dunn no,they don't do it that way,the giants and some other teams
The Cubs do it this way as well
Busch Stadium does it this way too.
We still do that
We do the same thing here in chase field
A ton of teams do this, including the Bucs
wrigley does this
I dont get that in juko ball what the hell
Thee OG way.
Do they still do it this OG way?
Some teams do
@@FizzyCape 👍
talk about milking the clock
No joke
Turface? I get it but why?
This guy is giving me strong some managers nephew vibes. His job seems so easy and he probably gets paid tons. Why wouldn’t his position have some guy who’s old as hell and been doing it his whole life?
that's not his only job...
@@cmason87 what else he do I’m retarded?
@@TheJellyfish800 you're not retarded bro, I didn't know either they do lot of shit apparently.
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My wife likes watching the grounds crew when we go to the games more than the game itself. Chalking up the foul lines, setting the bases, raking the dirt, putting the tarp on before it starts raining, all of it. Back in the day when there was astroturf, they drove around a big truck that was a cross between a big vacuum and a Zamboni but I have not seen that in some time.
Being SANFRAN SICK O it should be all the colors of the r b
The Phillies do the same thing exact
That's ridiculous. 1 guy does 4 baseball fields for my sons league. Looks identical to this...
0:36 we gonna talk about how crooked that line is?
So what's the new school way?
0:49 they hit it 3 times
Well I want to speak to their manager.
i think thats a longer one
0:49 guy hit it three times :>)
They do this in seattle
My high school team does this.
Ok
how can you make a box chalker
They are still chalking the line just like they did when the ball boy played baseball.
its SF how is there not an app or a self drivng chalk cart for this?
Every team does this
now a roomba does it
I do my lines with my EBT card
but why...
I know they do this at the University of Georgia
0:55 is the best view lol and the best stadium in the USA
Every MLB team does it this way
I’m about 99% certain every Reds game I’ve been to was chalked this way
so your saying there's a chance !
@@goldleader6169 Only the slightest chance
Why does my man sound like Patrick Mahomes???
I hate the giants but this is pretty neat
Rocket science
That's not the old school way. The old school way is using a little cart that has wheels
The new way is not always the best way.
The next trick is after the game, they have to sweep that chalk up so it doesn't ruin the blend of the infield dirt
Yep, they just set down a vacuum cleaner, tap it with a hammer a few times, and all the chalk comes right up
Those guys at the end hit the box three times. Just sayin...
So basically it takes 4x as long and is easier to mess up? That about sums up the whole team.
infamouscoma886 that sums up baseball as a sport
@@ryanespinoza7297 its especially true rn
0:36 crooked as hell
0:50 they hit it THREE times on either end
at 0:36 the string thing came up off the ground, it wasnt off the line
The marlins use chalk aswell
I think they have to use chalk because of the rules - it's just a matter of what method each team prefers it put in place.
Crooked at 0:35
It's not though
TURFACE