MLB In-Game Cheating Incidents
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Incidents from the past where MLB players & pitchers were caught cheating in game. Some notable items include: corked bats, pine tar, and foreign substances.
Part 2: • MLB In-Game Cheating I...
Some clips courtesy of SW561 & Sports Odyssey
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For those that don’t know, the George Brett incident was reversed by the commissioner and the Royals ended up winning the game
An unforgettable reaction from George Brett.
That is how you go about losing your mind. :)
What happened
@@fifasims1996 the royals ended up winning because the call was over turned by the commissioner.
was just going to say that this was not a cheating incident since it was reversed anyway
@@nonethelessfirst8519 wait what happened?
I'm surprised they didn't talk about that Albert Belle incident more. Yes the umps took the bat and brought it to the umpires office in the stadium. While the game was going on one of Belles teammates broke into the umpires office to steal the bat back lol. Ahhh the 90's 🤣
@@khamjaninja. I had forgotten it was Paul Sorrento's bat he had replaced it with. I do remember it was Jason Grimsley that crawled in to retrieve the bat lol.. But I guess it shouldn't be a super shocker Grimsley would be involved in something like that, involving cheating. Because I'm pretty sure years later his name was linked to steroid use, and if I remember correctly they even came up with evidence of it being shipped to his house... What's the old saying once a cheater always a cheater.....
They should do a 30 for 30 on this. I'd watch the crap out of it.
It wasnt corked, it was just a lucky bat. The league heard he had a magic bat and they wanted to destroy it.
@@khamjaninja. Man this sounds like some sitcom level stuff.
I'm so glad I've heard of this because of a Secret Base video
Niekro flipping it out if his pants thinking no one would notice is hilarious. Toddler move
I've seen many people try that move with drugs in front of cops. Lol.
@@MrEazyE357 George Floyd dropped like 3 bags right on camera in front of cops and they didnt notice
@@markglock2585 and still killed him.
@@Cosmos6745 George Floyd was shot?
@@markglock2585 killed. Sorry. I just assumed he was shot.
Brett, the greatest display of absolute outrage ever in a ball game.
Kinda miss it. Those guys played hard, intense, with everything they had. Today’s MLB? Different game for sure.
ya back then it wasnt even roids if it was they sucked at it. it was just man code shit n mustaches, beer, n chew n abit of cocaine. They were getiin paid shit compared to todays players so the game seemed to matter more. 80s baseball was epic for kinda crap but spirited baseball and bench clearing fights
Seems like all the judgement calls happened at Yankee Stadium. Umps cheat for the Yankees
I remember that game.
@@bobbowie9350 Money money money. You know why the Yankees always win? Because everyone is staring at those damn pinstripes.
Imagine being in the crowd of a 0-0 game in the 12th inning between the Orioles and Marlins. I’d rather chop my arm off.
One would HAVE TO imagine. Because no one was actually there.
The way that ump called Brett out was fantastic, and the way Brett reacted was amazing..
I appreciate that this has a good number of clips that aren't in every other UA-cam baseball highlight video.
surprised no Gaylord Perry clip in there...how many times was he thrown out?
They didn't show the best part of Chris "Spuds" Sabo for Cincinnati = he broke his bat and was using someone else's bat that broke with cork in it. As he was leaving the dugout having been thrown out of the game, he walks past 1B Hal Morris and says something to him as Hal hides his head and both laugh. It was Hal Morris' bat and Spuds got caught with it corked.
I think it was a prank war that culminated with Sabo being set up to get the corked bat
Someone else's bat? Was it not his BP bat that got mixed in with game bats?
@@jrod2510 I think that was Sosa’s excuse.
I saw an episode of mythbusters and they tested corked vs uncorked bats and the corked didn't hit the ball as far as the regular bats.
@@claytron3000 Was gonna say, I definitely remember someone around the Sabo/Sosa time that used that excuse
Jeez, Buck Showalter has managed everywhere.
Yankees
Diamondbacks
Rangers
Orioles
Mets
He was also on Seinfeld lol
Yeah and never took a team to a World Series.
even Seinfeld lol
I think it's unfair to call the Chris Sabo incident "cheating." That was like the third bat he had used that inning, after breaking two bats previously, and that last one he used also sounded like it broke, and he ended up using it again before it shattered. Whether it was a prank by his teammate, a mixup from the batboy, or a corked bat getting mixed in with the regular ones, I don't think Sabo was trying to cheat. He left the game without much protest, but there wasn't really anything he could argue, he used a corked bat and got tossed.
So you're saying it was... Sabotage?
I've always thought his reaction made it seem like he didn't know. But, accidently cheating is still cheating technically speaking.
Question when they take the "evidence" up to the league office what does MLB do?
@@do_gotcha yeah always took it as "goddammit, why did I have to pick THAT bat? Oh well can't do anything about it now"
So who cheated then? He could’ve used 10 bats if they’re illegal you’re cheating.
Michael PINEda was a funny one for some reason. Even though he has darker skin, the pine tar on his neck was so reflective and made the opposing manager suspicious.
bringing race into anything is never a good idea lol case and point - doesn't work haha
4:24 Sosa actually cheating twice here. He was just regular cheating the rest of the time.
And Rafeal palmeiro and conesco, magwire, arod, bonds , giambi, geez good thing you called out sosa for taking steroids. ton more i didn't list. But you set the record straight.
Imagine having to cheat to beat the Marlins. Embarrassing
It's the Orioles
As a fish fan tbf...it is also the orials.
And we have 14 one run losses. The record dosn't show how weve been.
Its still pain anyway😔
Haven’t they won more World Series in the past 27 years(2)than the Atlanta Braves?
I still to this have yet to see a baseball player become as heated and animated as Brett was that day. It's amazing he didn't have a heart attack on the field!
He was exonerated, so why was he even in this video? They later had to reinstate his homer and continue the game
@@birdman7135
He wasn't "exonerated"
@@jimwerther *"He wasn't "exonerated""*
... *Exonerated:* _"absolve (someone) from blame for a fault or wrongdoing, especially after due consideration of the case._
... You should probably do some research before commenting. It'll save you from embarrassment.
@@birdman7135
It's bad enough when you're wrong; doing a celebratory song and dance makes you look hopelessly foolish.
AL President Lee MacPhail ruled that while the umpires got the call right, he chose to overrule them because he felt it had not broken the "spirit" of the rule.
That is not the definition of an "exoneration".
Educate yourself. More importantly, learn decency and manners.
@@jimwerther *"AL President Lee MacPhail ruled that while the umpires got the call right, he chose to overrule them because he felt it had not broken the "spirit" of the rule."*
.... Once again, here's the definition: *Exonerated:* _"absolve (someone) from blame for a fault or wrongdoing, especially after due consideration of the case."_ ... I suggest you look up the definition and see for yourself.
After careful consideration of the ruling against Brett, MacPhail chose to overrule the umpires' decision. That literally *matches the definition* of "Exoneration." But by all means, please *feel free* to add as many follow-up comments as you wish trying to claim otherwise.
What gets posted on the internet stays around forever, and people ten years from now will be seeing how ridiculous you are. I've even "copied and pasted" your own words should you suddenly figure this out and start deleting your comments.
*"That is not the definition of an "exoneration"."*
... The definition I provided was copied and pasted straight out of online dictionary sources. But hey, keep on arguing against it like you know better. _... It's hilarious!_
*"Educate yourself. More importantly, learn decency and manners."*
... (See above).
Phil trying to be real slick by sneaking throwing away the evidence lol 😆
What was it?
A nail file / emory board
Joe
Phil never played for the Twins...yeah I know I am a year late
The George Brett ‘pine tar’ incident was and still is ridiculous.
on protest the league office overturned the umpires ruling and the game was resumed from that point en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Tar_Incident
The home run call was ridiculous too. Announcers have gotten much better these days. Except Joe Buck. He sucks.
@@gatorbod21 No...it is just that announcers actually catered to SPORTS FANS back then. Not pathetic lifelong children who still wear baseball caps (usually backwards) into their middle aged adulthood and continue to refer to their favorite team in the first person like "we need to better closer."
You will find that the more you actually KNOW about sports, the less you want to hear announcers who scream at every little thing and have cliched calls that don't actually tell the play very well. Like idiot John Sterling screaming It is HIGH, it is FAR, it is GONE" whether the home run is a 450 foot mammoth shot, a line drive that barely gets over the fence, or in many cases with him, a fly out that is caught just on the warning track.. Only worthless idiots who were never picked in gym class (not even last when the gym teacher said the captains HAD to choose everybody) think that that is good announcing. That is bullshit announcing by people who think fans tune into the game for THEM...not the action on he field.
so, my advice to you is, grow up..take your baseball cap off, ort at least turn it around, and learn about the sports. You will enjoy it more.
I 100% agree they had no clue what they were talking about
I agree, I still have no idea how they overturned the ruling. You can't have pine tar more than 18 inches up the bat, it was more, batter is out.
“Crisco. Bardol. Vagisil. Anyone of ‘em will give you another two to three inches drop on your curveball. Of course if the umps are watching me real close I’ll rub a little jalapeño up my nose, get it runnin’, and if I need to load the ball up I just rub my nose.”- Eddie Harris
You put snot on the ball?!?
@@chaddean2771 I haven’t got an arm like you kid. I have to put anything on it I can find. Someday you will too.
@@chuckfinley6747 that felt like it was out of a movie 😭😂
Love Major League. Classic.
I love baseball movies, but Major League is one of my all-time favorites.
That Joe Niekro ball scuff one was wild. Not only did he have the file, but he had sandpaper as well
Cheating has been engrained in baseball since the very beginning
George Brett was not cheating. It was ruled that the bat should have been excluded from future use, but the home run counted. The game was resumed the following month from the point of Brett's homerun and ended with a Royals win.
Fun fact, that game was the last time a left handed thrower played 2nd base in the MLB, and it was Don Mattingly
Why would this be included when it got overturned?
@@tonyt9850 because the person that made it isn't perfect?? Like bro, bias towards the creator?????
@@tonyt9850 Because it is UA-cam and it is a list channel. And one that wants the video to be as long as possible to maximize ads. List videos ALWAYS include fill that are not relevant to the title of the video. How many videos of "People who celebrated too early" including not only in the video, but as the THUMBNAIL the hot pole vaulter who missed her vault but happily waved to the crowd because she still had beater her personal best and had won the event. And it isn't as if she was waving as the bar wobbled and then eventually fell. It fell right away. so in no way was it a "celebrated too early" or could even be confused by the dozens of idiot list channels that included it.
@Dick Mountain more that righties make better throws from 2nd but, fair
"This is weak oh they threw him out of the game!"
LOL
Saying it’s not your bat and you didn’t know it was corked is the equivalent of dudes on cops get busted and saying it’s their cousins pants and they didn’t know it was in the pocket lol
George "hold me back, bro" Brett had a few opportunities to throw a punch or slap before he was overwhelmed
Good point. He looked so incredibly mad though, it’s hilarious.
He’s a pro , gets mad yes but why would he punch an ump and risk his career ?
Against each other yeah , but a pro isn’t gonna punch an ump
@Gregory Holden wouldn’t be kicked out of baseball but he would get a serious suspension. At least like 50 or so games i would guess
@@TheRdela24 Brett wouldn't have risked his career; the worst thing that could have happened to him was pay a fine, and face a lengthy suspension.
Joe West has made some pretty bad calls over the years, but you've gotta respect all the good ones he makes too. The man has a firm grasp of the game, years and years of experiences and he knows bullshit when he sees it and isn't afraid to call it out. Quickest thumb in the business, but he's usually correct (on ejections, at least). He isn't great at safe/out calls but he sees a corked/split bat or a doctored ball almost instantly (and will watch a pitcher like a hawk when he suspects something). Definitely no Angel Hernandez
Agreed, he’s usually good but does try to claim the spotlight a bit too much for me
@@cbr274 Yeah, he's just old-school. He's got a bit of an ego which means he's stubborn when he's wrong and believes he deserves a certain level of respect but other than some truly awful calls at 2nd/3rd/home (against the NYY particularly), he deserves it. No one runs a pitcher/corked batter quicker or with more confidence (& if there were umpire report cards for properly identified substances/corked/altered bats etc. He'd probably be 99%+), even if he also runs managers for "disrespecting" him arguing a call.
Agreed. He is a loose cannon with a short fuse, but hes normally dead on. Not to mention the guys kinda a douchebag (a la Adrien Beltre), but the guys old school. Cant blame him
Joe Niekro with the elusive nail file toss. Everybody was doctoring the ball with this, that and the other. Gaylord Perry was a master of the spitter. 😆
If you never got to experience the early 90s as a child, teen, or adult I feel sorry for you...what a time to be alive
Weird flex but aight lol
@@Valientlink It's not weird if you were there to remember it. The man speaks truth.
I’ll take phones and modern medicine lol
My dad said the exact same thing about the 80s... everyone's nostalgic for the time they grew up in.
anything after 9/11 was and is tainted
Didn’t they scientifically prove that corked bats don’t hit the ball as far? I guess you can swing it a little faster and get a hit but not send the ball farther.
Yes, you can swing faster but the exit velocity is less therefore cancelling out any benefit but they didn't know at the time I'm guessing
Brett didnt cheat. It was reversed the next day
Sure bro. He didn't cheat. But he did act like a entitled douche bag and display some world class sportsmanship
Yep. Billy Martin was such a turd.
It was a BS call
Still against the rules.
@@lordofthemound3890 Not as cheating. Only as a way to not use as many baseballs. It was NEVER about an unfair advantage for the hitter.
George Brett going ballistic priceless
Now you know your man's guilty when your manager doesn't even flip out
Niekro trying to throw the sand paper was the worst 😂😂😂
Think it was an emery board.
2:22 Was this when the Indians had a relief pitcher break into the ump's office to get the bat back?
Yes and I believe they tried to sneak in Paul Sorrento's bat.
@@AEMoreira81 Then the umps noticed and threatened to get the FBI involved
George Brett's bat was illegal but it wasn't cheating. There is no advantage to a batter to have extra pine tar. If anything, a pitcher may gain an advantage if some got onto a ball that was still being used.
he also did not tar it as high as they said...he used unfinished raw grain wood so if he started the tar off low it would have worked its way up with use and soaked in...whatcha gunna do lol
Excellent compilation. Thanks.
"Snap my bat and call me Corky" 😂😂😂
What was the Byung Kim thing about what was that??? A paper towel?? Been a Dbacks fan since their inception and dont remember that
Do you have the video of Gaylord Perry explaining how he would hide substances to juice the ball?
Nobody:
Astros: 🗑 “Bang” “Bang”
Nobody:
Redsox: ⌚️📲
Sport is when you participate in an activity for pleasure and joy, this is what happens when you involve big business.
So do people only cheat because of big business' involvement?
@@stephenpepper1790. No. You’re right, people always have and always will cheat. However, introduce money as an incentive, and that’s when the temptation seduces those who wouldn’t normally cheat.
People cheat in my Sunday Softball league all the time. I pitch and I don’t usually care unless it’s a double wall bat. I don’t have the response time I used to…
Could you do a video of grand slams in the 90s?
“Grand slam for Albert belle!”
Dose any one play this game clean
George Brett was very mad that the umpires threw him out because he had too much pine tar on his bat and today's MLB game is different then it was back then in the 1980's
The 90s was a wild time in baseball
George Brett and Tommy Lasorda were always carrying on about something. Lol
this whole video should just be the astros logo for 20 minutes.
The nail clipper from Niekro 😀
Whats the song playing in the background at 1:52?
why? lol
It is called I go to pieces, by Peter and Gordon. 1964.
@@TheCattyKidb/c it's so groovy 👍
0:00 why did games back in the day show the pitch being thrown from such different angles?
Ignorant Aussie here, does cork in the bat actually make the ball go further when hit than with a regular bat or is it bullshit?
The idea is to make the bat lighter, thereby allowing a faster swing. So you can weild a large bat that is lighter than regulation with cork or a similar lighter material in the core.
@@cotydavismusic oh Righto thanks for the info.
Let’s not forget how the entire Astros team cheated to obtain an unearned world championship.
MLB should have rescinded their championship to send a serious message.
@7:15 these umps could never work for the academy awards
I'm curious, is a natural amount of sweat considered a foreign substance?
The smirk on Niekro’s face 😏
I feel like atleast annotations, if not a 2-3 second screen with a brief description or link to the info would make these videos explode.
The umpire at 0:59 is the first thing I think of when I hear the word ‘America’.
I'd like to know what the Yankees are using these days to get spin rate on pitches. Every single pitcher that came from another team has a massive increase to spin rate and there's no logical explanation.
i'm shocked at the amount of cheating over the years.
You shouldn't be. Make friends with any professional ball player, they'll tell you just about every pitcher does something to make their fingers stickier, almost all of them. The game is not getting caught.
The history of baseball is so fascinating
That last clip is probably an example of why mlb ruined extra innings. National broadcast going into the 12th inning plus gets in the way of other programming. Trying to speed up the game in other ways too but this was a big threat to their $$$
When I played high school baseball we had a pitcher that had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches he snacked on and the peanut butter would help him and the umps never caught on.
@Gregory Holden yeah... right in the freaking dugout!!!
@Gregory Holden not many...he was a skinny kid!!
It ain't cheating if your caught
You put the George Brett incident in a "cheating" video?
The George Brett thing wasn't cheating. MLB had the rule about pine tar being too high on the bats because they didn't want the balls to get pine tar on them when they were hit with the bat. It didn't do anything to change how the ball flies off the bat.
Drama of cheating and everything else that goes on in sports. Makes watching highlights and videos better for me as a everyday kind of guy who doesn't like that much drama.
great start with the pine tar incident
Can you imagine how jeter felt, being with the yankees his last 3 seasons? He was about one of only 5 people that didn't get thrown out for some sort of foul play. I would've retired too, but Jeter still had more seasons.
George Brett could have hit a home run off Gossage with an emery board. The pine tar did absolutely nothing to make the ball fly farther.
Hitters always say they'd rather have pitchers use something to get a better grip on the ball rather then have them all wild and hitting batters. As long as it's not being used to increase their spin rate.
I don't think you can have it both ways. If your increasing grip, your going to increase spin rate.
It should be an automatic one year suspension for corking bats. NO PAY!!
Ahh, so it’s not just the Astros? Shocker!! Lol
It's pathetic that they can't play without cheating. SHAMEFUL BEHAVIOUR
When Will Smith got thrown out, he wanted to slap the umpire
That pitcher tried to do what a method betries to do to cops toss it without somebody seeing it
As an Astros fan, it’s funny to see us in this video at 0:40
Cheating incidents this isn't the entire history of baseball
What's in the cloves I don't understand??
When Pineda got caught, the Red Sox manager said something like, we know it's a cold night and have pine tar helps a pitcher grip the ball better. But, when it's that obvious, they had to call him out on it.
So if Pineda was more discrete about the pine tar, the Red Sox wouldn't have said anything!
I got a foul ball at a college game when I was a kid and it had a deep, narrow gouge in it about half an inch long. Not even sure how you could accomplish something like that on the mound without someone noticing
Should have checked Sammy's injectors too.
....does the thumbnail look like John McCain or am i going crazy lol
So far, it looks like corked bats don't do much of anything so why use them?
Glad to see there's a "tainted supplements" for every sport.
The Houston Astros liked this video
Minnesota Twins pitcher Niekro going into his back pocket 🤣🤣🤣
Mythbusters proved a corked bat hits the ball softer.
Pineda be like, where’s a good spot to hide a silver dollar sized glob of pine tar? Jeter be like, what you guys looking for?
Btw Mythbusters yested corked bats.... they dont help at all, in fact its worse
No covid 19 or challenge replays in the 1980s.
Foreign substance should be the name of a band.
Every 2017 Astros home game
When you use any tools year after year, you get the know the physical weight and feel. A bat is no different. The play knew.
It would be nice to be told what happened
They call me the Batman cause I’m corked.
All this cheating, all these cheaters, all this actually proven and besides an initial reaction , nobody ever brings it up for any reason after the incident. Be ACCUSED of deflating a football and nobody will STFU about it
🛑🛑🛑🛑We are all innocent. Don’t you know that? Shawshank redemption
Thought that was Wandy (not this "Joel") Peralta getting tossed at 6:00 ish and was quite surprised, both that he played for the Rays and the obvious
ETA: this Joel Peralta dude looks like he's on Canseco-level juice too 😂😂
Me thinks with that much cheating, a few corked bats a little substance here and there.
I team or even a few players could clean up at the betting kiosk.
cheating is the lowest thing you can do or be a part of! just play fair and play because you love what you're doing
There's just nothing worse than a cheater. It ruins the integrity of the entire sport.
The Will Smith one is funny as a Brave fan for he is now a Brave and now a World Series champion. Lol
If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'!!