Marie, at 3:35 the ball girl is helping the outfield "warm up". After each 1/2 inning the teams change, the team in the field goes into bat and the team that just batted goes into the field. The players taking the field warm up their arms / bodies (to prevent muscle strains) by throwing the ball to one another. Since there are three outfielders it helps to have a "fourth", the ball girl.
Fans keeping a ball as a souvenir is a long time tradition in baseball. The ball girls like to give the balls to small children because it creates a good memory that might make the child a life-long fan of the sport. I've been trying to catch one for 63 years with no luck so far.
Line drives have been clocked at close to 120 miles per hour. Those hit down the lines, both foul and fair, usually leave the bat with a powerful spin which causes the ball to curve in the air and take unexpected bounces when it hits the ground. These strange bounces are referred to as bad hops.
They always go through many new baseballs each game, it is to keep the game fair. Part of the contest is for the pitcher to make the ball spin a certain way (or not spin at all) to make the ball move different directions and give the batter a hard time to hit it. Balls that have been damaged by being hit are often removed from the game because it gives the pitcher an unfair advantage. Pitchers will sometimes illegally try to damage or change the ball, and if they are caught doing it they get in trouble: kicked out of that game, or maybe fined.
Some ball girls volunteer. Usually they tip their hat as a "Your Welcome" when they give the ball away. Some of the MLB players will play "catch" with the ball girls. Catch is just pitching and catching the ball to each other. A father may do this with his kids. Sometimes big fans will play catch every time they take a break on a trip for example. Ball girls will often get cheers from the crowd. Having a baseball souvenir is a big deal and sometimes the players will autograph such balls.
Ball girls and ball boys can only retrieve low balls. Balls that go up high, to te upper deck, folks are on their own and sometimes even in the lower deck balls go into the stands. There is usually a rush to catch it. My brother caught a ball once at a Detroit Tiger's game and it was even on the video and played up on the scoreboard. If there is a kid going after it, nice people will let them get it, but there are jerks who argue or take balls away from kids. You are right having a souvenir ball that comes into the stands is a treasure. Sometimes a player will sign the ball for the kid after the end of the game.
Actually, a ball girl's/boy's primary job is to chase down foul balls and bring new baseballs to the homeplate umpire between innings. It's nice when they can keep fans in their area from being hit, by making a great catch but that isn't their primary job as they can only protect a tiny-tiny percentage of fans in attendance. As they can only catch those balls hit at them. The 10s-of thousands of other fans in attendance are on their own.
@@bobstewart8032 It is not the bat boys/girls job to chase after and field foul balls down the lines. Although he/she does chase after foul balls close to the infield and home plate. The bat/boy's job is to handle the bats and other equipment. He /she also has clubhouse duties before and after the game. The ball boy/girl's primary job is to field/chase after foul balls down the lines
How can they see? That's a very good question. I played baseball as a kid and that type of velocity on a ball heading for me would have me holding the glove in front of my face, hoping the ball would miss me. Those girls kick ass. Real baseballs are hard and, when you catch them wrong (like not in the webbing but in the pocket in front of your palm), it stings like crap. My hats off to them; they're amazing.
You are right about them having a lot of balls so that they're able to get so many of them to the crowd. There are literally hundreds of baseballs available for every game. Part of the fun of being at a baseball game is that you may get a baseball for yourself. If you look you'll see that several people in the crowds of Spectators have brought baseball gloves to the game. This is in case of ball gets hit up into the stands they may be able to catch it.
The pitchers used to warm up on the side of the field and the ballboy/girl would protect them. Most stadiums have enclosures for them now so the ballboy/ballgirl are protecting the most vulnerable to injury
That takes a love for the game and a understanding of everything going on. My hubby was a bat boy for the White Sox (Chicago) in the sixties. He'd won a contest and was thrilled to death! The girls were later in the late seventies and after but it did not diminish their accomplishes!
The fans are protected more now because the teams have put up nets along part of the stands. That way fans close to the batter are protected st the low level. The ball girls and boys are good at their job and love it.
In the last year and a half or so, all of the Major League ballparks (stadiums), have added protective netting in front of the seats closest to the field of play. This was a long overdue change. Prior to that, for many, many years, it was the responsibility of the fans to be alert and try to get out of the way of hard hit balls. That was crazy.
According to MLB, between 60 & 70 baseballs are used in an average game (about every 6th pitch, a new ball is introduced). This includes the balls hit into the crowd, both foul balls and home runs. Many are swapped out simply because there is a scuff or abrasion on the ball. These are about $6 each... :) You mentioned how fast the ball moves... Yes, many in excess of 100-120 MPH (160-190 KPH)! :O
It used to be only boys that did this. The purpose isn't a type of training. It's simply that balls that get hit in foul territory need someone to pick them up. So they started having boys on both sides to do that (thankfully now they also allow girls). In some of the stadiums, there's a dangerous place there, for the fans. So the boys and girls sit in that place, to help protect the fans, that might not be paying attention.
A baseball coming off the bat after being hit can be traveling as fast as 45-50 meters per second. So yes, the ball will be coming at you very fast, and you need to be alert and have good eyes and good reflexes to be able to field it successfully. Any ball that is hit into the stands is free for you to keep. And as you saw in the video, people on the field frequently hand out balls to spectators as free souvenirs, favoring especially young kids as recipients. That being the case, they go through a lot of baseballs--96 to 120 per game on average.
Love you covering baseball!! It’s. a truly great sport. The ball girls are good athletes who do practice. They are not there out for looks either,although, LOL, it doesn’t hurt.. They perform the important function of protecting fans sitting close to the field. However, they do have to careful of touching balls hit into fair territory( between the white lines you see running up the sides of the field, which very rarely happens. Once again , great job. Love them!! 😎👍👍👍
They're usually positioned down the foul lines (frequently at a spot where the seats jut out in a corner) to gather up balls hit down the lines, and in the case of some of these hard hit balls, help protect fans who aren't always paying attention. The girls generally have played competitive softball (the fast pitch variety) in high school or college, and many have played in Little League baseball (up to age 12) where they're playing on teams that are mostly boys of the same age. There is some serious talent in that group, and I've seen many spectacular plays like those when I'm at games.
Having played lots of baseball at 3rd, and as a pitcher (two of the more likely positions to get extremely hard hit balls at pretty close range) I can say that something happens when a ball gets smashed at you. It's like time slows down for a split second but you can move at regular speed.
For many years teams had a ball girl or ball boy down each foul line and a bat boy. The ball girls and boys were usually young kids and their jobs were to protect the crowd where the fast foul balls are likely to strike and to prevent play from stopping because the ball would tend to go on the field. Over the years it has become mostly young women in the role of ball girl (usually students) and they are often are excellent softball players. There aren't many opportunities for girls to play baseball it's sort of a sport reserved for men for some unknown reason. So girls play soft ball and boys play baseball and the girls learn the same skills but with a larger ball. The bat boys / bat girls retrieve the bats and bring them back to the dugout after a player bats. Recently, "ball girls" became considered too sexist of a term so they started calling them "ball attendants" because most of the "girls" are actually young women and calling them ball girls sounded to dismissive and calling them ball women sounded a bit sexual in nature, so now they're ball attendants for the most part.
If they're younger, chances are they're softball players from one of the local colleges or high schools. Nowadays girls/women chase down the foul balls and teenage boys hang out in the dugout handling the bats and give extra balls to the umpire when he runs out
Marie, when there are ballgirls and or ballboya there is one on the left foul area and one on the right. And they only save or get the ones they can. There is a lot of times the ball does go into the crowd. The girl you saw playing catch with one of the players was while the pitcher was warming up so that the fielder could also warm up. There are also home run balls that people that catch them try to have the player that hit the home run sign the ball and sometimes the home run has a special meaning to the player so he or the team may try to get the ball back for the player because it might be the player's 200th home run or something else. They usually trade with say a signed ball for the home run ball or they may pay for it., Or the person keeps the ball and sells it to collectors.
Check out Zach Hample's channel, world record holder for getting the most balls from attending games... as a kid you would get to the stadium early and bring your glove and catch the batting practice home runs/foul balls or get someone to throw you one from the bullpen(where pitchers warm up)
If a ball is hit by a bat or hits the ground on a pitch, it gets replaced with a new ball, even if it stays in the field. Love the channel and your reactions.
In the old days (100 ans) the pitcher could use sandpaper or whatever to scratch up the ball however they liked, but one time a ball was damaged, which caused a bad pitch and killed someone. Since then in the MLB any time a ball has any sign of damage the ball is replaced for a new one. You can see sometimes if a pitch hits the ground, the catcher will trade balls with the umpire for a new one. There are probably 50-100 balls used in a weekend, so lots of souvenirs to go around!
People can get hurt when the balls go into the stands. I went to the 2016 All-Star game in San Diego and I watched a line drive (a ball hit straight into the crowd as opposed to bouncing off of something) hit a man in the face and he started to bleed. It's an understood part of going to a game to watch out as soon as the ball is hit. Lots of fans bring their own gloves from home and many fans hope to go home with a ball hit into the stands.
There’s two ball girls or guys, one for each side of the field. They aren’t trained, per say, but they need to have already learned to catch a baseball by practice, or by playing as a child. Their role is to protect the fans, and to speed up the game by retrieving foul balls, so the players don’t have to.
The baseball weighs 149 grams (.149 kg) it's hard as a rock, and pitches are travelling a speed around 95 mph (153 kph). It it's fast and hard and too be in that field you must have fantastic speed and reflex.
I’m sure someone else here has mentioned that the “ball girls” and “ball boys” are positioned down there to clear all the baseballs off the field and yes, to prevent injuries to fans if possible. Most of the time they are just picking up a foul ball off the ground and later returning it to the the umpires or handing it to a lucky fan. Every now and then one of them will mistakenly catch a fair ball that was hit down the line that they thought was foul. They get embarrassed when that happens.
This was great dear😁😁😁👍👍👍.i love watching you react to things like this.baseball has been around for well over 150 yrs and is ingrained onto the American way of life.and some of those girls are pretty spectacular with a glove.
"What if the ball goes somewhere else?" The ball girls are there to protect the crowd from foul balls that could possibly hurt someone. That is why the ball girls are always stationed relatively close to the foul poles where a foul ball would be going the fastest and therefore be the hardest to catch and have the highest likelihood of hurting someone. If the foul ball doesn't make it all the way to the ball girl, it's typically either a close foul which will hit the nets that they have to protect the crowd near home plate or its a pop foul which goes high into the air and therefore is far easier for people who aren't trained to catch.
If the baseball goes foul...or if it's a home run...it's a baseball tradition that the crowd gets the ball...if it happens to be a record breaking home run..then the ball can be worth a LOT of money!
Baseballs are hard and can definitely hurt you .... All baseballs used by Major League Baseball consist of the same materials. An inner core is made of rubber-coated cork and then surrounded by three layers of wool yarn and a winding of cotton or polyester yarn. This core is then coated in latex adhesive or rubber cement and covered with cowhide.Jul 8, 2011
I'm betting all these girls are high school softball players. That's a big sport in the US for teen women. The girl that climbed up the outfield wall to catch that foul was amazing. I've seen that clip before. She's very athletic.
Great job with your reaction of the Best Ball Girls in Baseball they have a important job keeping the fans for be hurt by foulballs . Nice to see a couple of my home State Team Girls in the video from the Boston RedSox . Marie nice seeing your smile after your last video.
You mentioned that there must be many balls used in a game. There ARE! I read that the average baseball is in play for just over three pitches before being replaced. Considering that the average official major league baseball retails for about $15 US, it isn't the cheapest game to pla....
Marie! "All of the ball girls are smiling"...of course they are. Each MLB teams has an active roster of 25 players. Two teams are there for a game. Do the math: 25 athletic young men X 2 groups of said athletic young men = much to smile about! :-)
All of these girls are athletes with exceptional hand eye coordination. I played third base Div1 and can tell you those balls are traveling faster than you think. From bat to girl here is about 1 second.
My Granddaughter who is 15, was just Accepted by the Philadelphia Phillies Softball Girls Travel League. She is a Fantastic Baseball and Softball Player. She has been Playing Softball on Baseball for 10 years she is Great at Both.
Hi Marie. Not all teams use girls for the job. Some have boys. Most of the girls are softball players at school and do this for the summer. While waiting for the next inning to start the players play catch to stay loose. Since there are three outfielders, while 2 of them catch with each other the third will often play catch with a ball boy or girl. As far as fans getting hurt, that has happened. In the last couple years though all the major league stadiums have put up netting down both sides to protect the fans closer to the batter, but the ball boys/girls do save a lot of people from getting hurt. Wear that Yankees hat proudly!! I have a different kind of video to suggest today. I will include a link. It is about the boat owners and ferry captains who rescued so many people who were stranded on 9/11 with no way off Manhattan Island. It is very inspiring and shows what people can accomplish with a little will to do good. Hope you enjoy. Stay safe and well. ua-cam.com/video/18lsxFcDrjo/v-deo.html
Like all sporting events, baseball is very social for the spectator. Because of the slower pace of the game, people are often distracted. Whether that is eating, or in discussions with fellow fans, or maybe people watching, there are times that you are not paying attention to the game. I remember as a young man, my friend and I would bring our binoculars, and point out to each other where we found attractive women in different sections of the stadium. I can't say that I have ever been hit by a ball in the stands, just by other spectator lunging for foul balls. They are so focused on "catching the ball" that they are oblivious to those around them. People have landed in my lap, and my beer has gone everywhere, but it is all part of the game. I hope that when all is well again in this world, you may come to America to enjoy a game soon.
I used to go to the games WITH my own glove. A lot of people are ready and are grabbing for the balls that go into the stands. If there were no ballgirls, the games would go a bit slower because someone would always have to trot over and pick up the ball. Not a biggie, I think it just adds an element of fun to the experience of seeing a live ballgame, and there's nothing better than bringing home a real major-league baseball. But yes, people have been hurt. Sometimes a line drive (a ball hit sharply not in a loop, but on a laser-like path) hits someone in the stands in the head and they have to be hospitalized. So ballparks try to put up netting, but it's really annoying having to look through it to see a game.
A couple of people have actually been killed by baseballs going into the crowd. Fortunately that is very rare, and occasionally people are injured but usually not seriously. If you attend a baseball game and sit near the field you need to pay attention all the times!
@@ice-iu3vv could you please site your source for that. According to the data I found, only 3 people in the crowd at a major league game have ever died due to being hit by a ball, and one of those was a thrown ball. Certainly many more players have died on a baseball field, but not spectators.
@@greggsmith6043 my source was the historical abstract by bill james "before world war 2 deaths at major league games were shockingly common ". he goes on to talk about fires, upper-decks collapsing, runners from third getting drilled by a line drive , "fans being hit by balls or even bats". so i dont know how many, but it seemed like way more than a couple. sorry if i overstated a point that you may have understated. also i bet if we were talking about moderately severe injuries instead of deaths, the point would be obvious.
@@ice-iu3vv thanks for the clarification. I saw that abstract as well but that covers deaths of any kind during a baseball game, not just spectators being hit by a ball. In any case, there is a real risk of injury if you are in the crowd. Best to pay close attention to the action!
Hey! Spring Training has started and the regular season games start in late March early April. If you can find a way, see if you can watch some games! There is nothing more awesome and enrgetic, than JohnSterling making the call on a home run for the Yankees. "IT IS HIGH! IT IS FAR! IT IS.. GOOONE!!" GO YANKEES!!
A long time ago, they’d try to use the same ball throughout the game. It would get beat up (from all the hits) and darkened (from all the dirt and muck that would get on it) during the game. This stopped in 1920. On August 17th of that year, a 29-year old Ray Chapman died after being struck in the head by a dirty ball that was hard to see while batting. After that MLB passed a rule requiring umpires to change out the ball whenever it gets dirty. Now they’ll virtually never use the same ball for more than one play, and frequently use several balls during the same at bat. During a full, 9-inning MLB baseball game, they go through an average of 84-120 baseballs. That’s why you see them so freely giving them away. Any ball hit or thrown in the stands is the property of who ever catches it (or picks it up). This also applies to bats that are occasionally thrown into the stands when it slips out of the hitter’s hands (though for bats the player will often want it back because they’ve prepped it how they like it; they’ll trade the fan a signed ball or un-prepped bat for the bat they through in). Ray Chapman is the only MLB player ever to die from an injury sustained during a game.
Lots of girls play baseball (and softball) growing up. Softball is a varsity sport in high school, and a scholarship sport in college. You need to watch a college softball game sometime. The ball attendants keep fans safe, but also keep these balls off the field, which would delay the game.
They're not there to protect fans as some have said. They are there to pick up balls from the out of bounds area so the players don't have to chase them down during the game. There's two, left and right out of bounds. Some are better than others. The boundary is a straight line from home plate through first and third base to the grandstands. At a baseball game you have to stay alert because you could pretty much get beaned by a baseball at any time. I hope this helps, best regards from Indiana, USA.
The surface at the edge of the outfield is softer and you can almost bounce off it like a trampoline , that's how the young lady was able to climb the outfield wall. I had to cross the outfield in Baltimore many times during a job I used to do .
These young women play women's softball at the college level, a major sport in the US. They are highly trained and skilled athletes. Many try out for just a few positions available. They are not paid but do receive a glove (mitt), uniform, headgear, and shoes.
I assume you know that bat girls retrieve balls that are no longer in play They are not one of the players---no women on major league teams yet, but hopefully that will come A movie you mght like about how women's teams took over baseball during WWII, but were thrown out after the war when men came back, is an amazing film. Tom Hanks is the manger and Geena Davis, and Madonna! Its called, A League of Their Own. I highly recommend it!
Here in the states baseball players are idolized much like soccer stars around the world. (aka Futbol). I probably did't spell that right. When the kids get the ball if it is signed by the player afterwards it is a very collectable item.
You don’t go to a baseball game here without taking your glove just in case. Very few people will leave with game balls. Most will be fouls but a select few fans will take a home run ball home.
Unfortunately, here in "sunny" Ireland there are no baseball games or even teams. They do however have a traditional game called Hurling, and they say it is the fastest game played in a football (soccer, if you prefer) pitch.
C'était génial 🙌👏 I'm glad you are discovering my favorite sport 😁 and glad that they showed my Washington Nationals 🤗 a few times. They go through over a hundred balls a game. Those ball girls either played Little League Baseball or softball and are good at it since they have to try out for that job. Yes you can get hit by a ball or a bat if you don't pay attention! I hope you do more baseball reactions and learn to love the game 🙏👍 and you go ahead and wear whatever you want, don't worry about the haters 👍 몸 조심해 💕
Balls get hit off the bat and go almost anywhere in the crowd a lot of people take gloves to the game to try to catch themselves a souvenir and even without gloves I would say normally people don't get her even when it goes into the crowd even though they can get hurt
The smiles on these girls' faces makes this so much more fun to watch.
Marie, at 3:35 the ball girl is helping the outfield "warm up". After each 1/2 inning the teams change, the team in the field goes into bat and the team that just batted goes into the field. The players taking the field warm up their arms / bodies (to prevent muscle strains) by throwing the ball to one another. Since there are three outfielders it helps to have a "fourth", the ball girl.
Fans keeping a ball as a souvenir is a long time tradition in baseball. The ball girls like to give the balls to small children because it creates a good memory that might make the child a life-long fan of the sport. I've been trying to catch one for 63 years with no luck so far.
so what your saying is at 53, I still got shot !
They go through an astonishing one million balls in an MLB season! They give them away plus foul balls, practice and homeruns etc.
Love how happy they are and the happier they make the children when they give them the baseball!
Line drives have been clocked at close to 120 miles per hour. Those hit down the lines, both foul and fair, usually leave the bat with a powerful spin which causes the ball to curve in the air and take unexpected bounces when it hits the ground. These strange bounces are referred to as bad hops.
They always go through many new baseballs each game, it is to keep the game fair. Part of the contest is for the pitcher to make the ball spin a certain way (or not spin at all) to make the ball move different directions and give the batter a hard time to hit it. Balls that have been damaged by being hit are often removed from the game because it gives the pitcher an unfair advantage. Pitchers will sometimes illegally try to damage or change the ball, and if they are caught doing it they get in trouble: kicked out of that game, or maybe fined.
You are right Marie, the kids getting a ball at the game is a treasure. Great observation !
The innocence of your discoveries is very endearing.
Some ball girls volunteer. Usually they tip their hat as a "Your Welcome" when they give the ball away. Some of the MLB players will play "catch" with the ball girls. Catch is just pitching and catching the ball to each other. A father may do this with his kids. Sometimes big fans will play catch every time they take a break on a trip for example. Ball girls will often get cheers from the crowd. Having a baseball souvenir is a big deal and sometimes the players will autograph such balls.
Ball girls and ball boys can only retrieve low balls. Balls that go up high, to te upper deck, folks are on their own and sometimes even in the lower deck balls go into the stands. There is usually a rush to catch it. My brother caught a ball once at a Detroit Tiger's game and it was even on the video and played up on the scoreboard. If there is a kid going after it, nice people will let them get it, but there are jerks who argue or take balls away from kids. You are right having a souvenir ball that comes into the stands is a treasure. Sometimes a player will sign the ball for the kid after the end of the game.
They have tryouts to become ball girls and boys. You definitely have to be athletic to become one. They are there to protect the crowd.
Actually, a ball girl's/boy's primary job is to chase down foul balls and bring new baseballs to the homeplate umpire between innings.
It's nice when they can keep fans in their area from being hit, by making a great catch but that isn't their primary job as they can only protect a tiny-tiny percentage of fans in attendance. As they can only catch those balls hit at them. The 10s-of thousands of other fans in attendance are on their own.
g those are the bat boys and girls.
@@bobstewart8032 It is not the bat boys/girls job to chase after and field foul balls down the lines. Although he/she does chase after foul balls close to the infield and home plate. The bat/boy's job is to handle the bats and other equipment. He /she also has clubhouse duties before and after the game.
The ball boy/girl's primary job is to field/chase after foul balls down the lines
Every baseball field is different, so some fields have more than others and some have none at all.
How can they see? That's a very good question. I played baseball as a kid and that type of velocity on a ball heading for me would have me holding the glove in front of my face, hoping the ball would miss me. Those girls kick ass. Real baseballs are hard and, when you catch them wrong (like not in the webbing but in the pocket in front of your palm), it stings like crap. My hats off to them; they're amazing.
I love watching this little lady discover sports in the USA, she is so adorable ❤️
You are right about them having a lot of balls so that they're able to get so many of them to the crowd. There are literally hundreds of baseballs available for every game. Part of the fun of being at a baseball game is that you may get a baseball for yourself. If you look you'll see that several people in the crowds of Spectators have brought baseball gloves to the game. This is in case of ball gets hit up into the stands they may be able to catch it.
They are great athletes already! They deserve more credit. ❤👍❤👍
The pitchers used to warm up on the side of the field and the ballboy/girl would protect them. Most stadiums have enclosures for them now so the ballboy/ballgirl are protecting the most vulnerable to injury
That takes a love for the game and a understanding of everything going on. My hubby was a bat boy for the White Sox (Chicago) in the sixties. He'd won a contest and was thrilled to death! The girls were later in the late seventies and after but it did not diminish their accomplishes!
The fans are protected more now because the teams have put up nets along part of the stands. That way fans close to the batter are protected st the low level. The ball girls and boys are good at their job and love it.
In the last year and a half or so, all of the Major League ballparks (stadiums), have added protective netting in front of the seats closest to the field of play. This was a long overdue change. Prior to that, for many, many years, it was the responsibility of the fans to be alert and try to get out of the way of hard hit balls. That was crazy.
3:40 they play catch during downtime between innings to keep their arm warmed up.
5:50 Yes, we will catch them with our bare hands and it does hurt for a little while. The pain is worth the chance for a game played baseball.
According to MLB, between 60 & 70 baseballs are used in an average game (about every 6th pitch, a new ball is introduced). This includes the balls hit into the crowd, both foul balls and home runs. Many are swapped out simply because there is a scuff or abrasion on the ball. These are about $6 each... :) You mentioned how fast the ball moves... Yes, many in excess of 100-120 MPH (160-190 KPH)! :O
It used to be only boys that did this. The purpose isn't a type of training. It's simply that balls that get hit in foul territory need someone to pick them up. So they started having boys on both sides to do that (thankfully now they also allow girls). In some of the stadiums, there's a dangerous place there, for the fans. So the boys and girls sit in that place, to help protect the fans, that might not be paying attention.
A baseball coming off the bat after being hit can be traveling as fast as 45-50 meters per second. So yes, the ball will be coming at you very fast, and you need to be alert and have good eyes and good reflexes to be able to field it successfully. Any ball that is hit into the stands is free for you to keep. And as you saw in the video, people on the field frequently hand out balls to spectators as free souvenirs, favoring especially young kids as recipients. That being the case, they go through a lot of baseballs--96 to 120 per game on average.
Love you covering baseball!! It’s. a truly great sport. The ball girls are good athletes who do practice. They are not there out for looks either,although, LOL, it doesn’t hurt.. They perform the important function of protecting fans sitting close to the field. However, they do have to careful of touching balls hit into fair territory( between the white lines you see running up the sides of the field, which very rarely happens. Once again , great job. Love them!! 😎👍👍👍
They're usually positioned down the foul lines (frequently at a spot where the seats jut out in a corner) to gather up balls hit down the lines, and in the case of some of these hard hit balls, help protect fans who aren't always paying attention. The girls generally have played competitive softball (the fast pitch variety) in high school or college, and many have played in Little League baseball (up to age 12) where they're playing on teams that are mostly boys of the same age. There is some serious talent in that group, and I've seen many spectacular plays like those when I'm at games.
Having played lots of baseball at 3rd, and as a pitcher (two of the more likely positions to get extremely hard hit balls at pretty close range) I can say that something happens when a ball gets smashed at you. It's like time slows down for a split second but you can move at regular speed.
For many years teams had a ball girl or ball boy down each foul line and a bat boy. The ball girls and boys were usually young kids and their jobs were to protect the crowd where the fast foul balls are likely to strike and to prevent play from stopping because the ball would tend to go on the field. Over the years it has become mostly young women in the role of ball girl (usually students) and they are often are excellent softball players. There aren't many opportunities for girls to play baseball it's sort of a sport reserved for men for some unknown reason. So girls play soft ball and boys play baseball and the girls learn the same skills but with a larger ball.
The bat boys / bat girls retrieve the bats and bring them back to the dugout after a player bats.
Recently, "ball girls" became considered too sexist of a term so they started calling them "ball attendants" because most of the "girls" are actually young women and calling them ball girls sounded to dismissive and calling them ball women sounded a bit sexual in nature, so now they're ball attendants for the most part.
If they're younger, chances are they're softball players from one of the local colleges or high schools. Nowadays girls/women chase down the foul balls and teenage boys hang out in the dugout handling the bats and give extra balls to the umpire when he runs out
Thx Marie! “Keep your eye on the ball” or “stay on the ball” are common sayings here! -Terry, Canoga Park
Love your videos ! You are a one girl ambassador for France !!!!!!!
Marie, when there are ballgirls and or ballboya there is one on the left foul area and one on the right. And they only save or get the ones they can. There is a lot of times the ball does go into the crowd. The girl you saw playing catch with one of the players was while the pitcher was warming up so that the fielder could also warm up. There are also home run balls that people that catch them try to have the player that hit the home run sign the ball and sometimes the home run has a special meaning to the player so he or the team may try to get the ball back for the player because it might be the player's 200th home run or something else. They usually trade with say a signed ball for the home run ball or they may pay for it., Or the person keeps the ball and sells it to collectors.
What's crazy to me is that people trust the ball girls to catch the ball so much they don't even move to get out of the way😄
I really enjoyed your reaction, those girls are great!
Check out Zach Hample's channel, world record holder for getting the most balls from attending games... as a kid you would get to the stadium early and bring your glove and catch the batting practice home runs/foul balls or get someone to throw you one from the bullpen(where pitchers warm up)
If a ball is hit by a bat or hits the ground on a pitch, it gets replaced with a new ball, even if it stays in the field. Love the channel and your reactions.
These ladies do an outstanding job. Lots of talent and skill.
In the old days (100 ans) the pitcher could use sandpaper or whatever to scratch up the ball however they liked, but one time a ball was damaged, which caused a bad pitch and killed someone. Since then in the MLB any time a ball has any sign of damage the ball is replaced for a new one.
You can see sometimes if a pitch hits the ground, the catcher will trade balls with the umpire for a new one.
There are probably 50-100 balls used in a weekend, so lots of souvenirs to go around!
People can get hurt when the balls go into the stands. I went to the 2016 All-Star game in San Diego and I watched a line drive (a ball hit straight into the crowd as opposed to bouncing off of something) hit a man in the face and he started to bleed. It's an understood part of going to a game to watch out as soon as the ball is hit. Lots of fans bring their own gloves from home and many fans hope to go home with a ball hit into the stands.
There’s two ball girls or guys, one for each side of the field. They aren’t trained, per say, but they need to have already learned to catch a baseball by practice, or by playing as a child. Their role is to protect the fans, and to speed up the game by retrieving foul balls, so the players don’t have to.
The baseball weighs 149 grams (.149 kg) it's hard as a rock, and pitches are travelling a speed around 95 mph (153 kph). It it's fast and hard and too be in that field you must have fantastic speed and reflex.
I would say the huge majority of ball girls have played softball which is very similar to baseball and requires great fielding.
I’m sure someone else here has mentioned that the “ball girls” and “ball boys” are positioned down there to clear all the baseballs off the field and yes, to prevent injuries to fans if possible. Most of the time they are just picking up a foul ball off the ground and later returning it to the the umpires or handing it to a lucky fan. Every now and then one of them will mistakenly catch a fair ball that was hit down the line that they thought was foul. They get embarrassed when that happens.
This was great dear😁😁😁👍👍👍.i love watching you react to things like this.baseball has been around for well over 150 yrs and is ingrained onto the American way of life.and some of those girls are pretty spectacular with a glove.
Love the Yankees hat! Good choice
you should react to «MLB nice gestures». Fans interactions in baseball games, very wholesome.
"What if the ball goes somewhere else?"
The ball girls are there to protect the crowd from foul balls that could possibly hurt someone. That is why the ball girls are always stationed relatively close to the foul poles where a foul ball would be going the fastest and therefore be the hardest to catch and have the highest likelihood of hurting someone. If the foul ball doesn't make it all the way to the ball girl, it's typically either a close foul which will hit the nets that they have to protect the crowd near home plate or its a pop foul which goes high into the air and therefore is far easier for people who aren't trained to catch.
These girls play what we call softball. Its a much bigger ball but the same skills are needed in softball as baseball.
If the baseball goes foul...or if it's a home run...it's a baseball tradition that the crowd gets the ball...if it happens to be a record breaking home run..then the ball can be worth a LOT of money!
Baseballs are hard and can definitely hurt you ....
All baseballs used by Major League Baseball consist of the same materials. An inner core is made of rubber-coated cork and then surrounded by three layers of wool yarn and a winding of cotton or polyester yarn. This core is then coated in latex adhesive or rubber cement and covered with cowhide.Jul 8, 2011
I'm betting all these girls are high school softball players. That's a big sport in the US for teen women. The girl that climbed up the outfield wall to catch that foul was amazing. I've seen that clip before. She's very athletic.
It’s amazing that these ball girls do so well fielding foul balls
Opening day for the 2021 MLB season is April 1. Opening day gets big crowds when there's not a pandemic.
They are usually highschool or college baseball or softball players for girl that do this. One on each baseline so just 2.
Great job with your reaction of the Best Ball Girls in Baseball they have a important job keeping the fans for be hurt by foulballs . Nice to see a couple of my home State Team Girls in the video from the Boston RedSox . Marie nice seeing your smile after your last video.
Great movie about baseball...The Natural (1984)
ball girls usually play college baseball most balls go into crowd rarely anybody gets hurt
You mentioned that there must be many balls used in a game. There ARE! I read that the average baseball is in play for just over three pitches before being replaced. Considering that the average official major league baseball retails for about $15 US, it isn't the cheapest game to pla....
If the ball is partially sticking out of the top of the glove, the glove and ball combination is called an ice cream cone
Marie! "All of the ball girls are smiling"...of course they are. Each MLB teams has an active roster of 25 players. Two teams are there for a game. Do the math: 25 athletic young men X 2 groups of said athletic young men = much to smile about! :-)
All of these girls are athletes with exceptional hand eye coordination. I played third base Div1 and can tell you those balls are traveling faster than you think. From bat to girl here is about 1 second.
The very first thing they teach a child who is beginning to play baseball is "Stay alert, you won't get hurt!"
"Keep one eye on the ball."
This goes equally for when you go to see a game.
A sport where daydreaming is hazardous.
@@jeffcowdrey1578 That method got me a black eye once.
From MLB instructions to umpires: "Keep your eye everlastingly on the ball while it is in play".
The bad and the good of baseball. Long periods of nothing happening punctuated by a few moments of excitement.
My Granddaughter who is 15, was just Accepted by the Philadelphia Phillies Softball Girls Travel League. She is a Fantastic Baseball and Softball Player. She has been Playing Softball on Baseball for 10 years she is Great at Both.
I just love your videos! Your smile and positivity are contagious. I really enjoy how interested you are in every topic you choose
Hi Marie. Not all teams use girls for the job. Some have boys. Most of the girls are softball players at school and do this for the summer. While waiting for the next inning to start the players play catch to stay loose. Since there are three outfielders, while 2 of them catch with each other the third will often play catch with a ball boy or girl. As far as fans getting hurt, that has happened. In the last couple years though all the major league stadiums have put up netting down both sides to protect the fans closer to the batter, but the ball boys/girls do save a lot of people from getting hurt. Wear that Yankees hat proudly!! I have a different kind of video to suggest today. I will include a link. It is about the boat owners and ferry captains who rescued so many people who were stranded on 9/11 with no way off Manhattan Island. It is very inspiring and shows what people can accomplish with a little will to do good. Hope you enjoy. Stay safe and well. ua-cam.com/video/18lsxFcDrjo/v-deo.html
Like all sporting events, baseball is very social for the spectator. Because of the slower pace of the game, people are often distracted. Whether that is eating, or in discussions with fellow fans, or maybe people watching, there are times that you are not paying attention to the game. I remember as a young man, my friend and I would bring our binoculars, and point out to each other where we found attractive women in different sections of the stadium. I can't say that I have ever been hit by a ball in the stands, just by other spectator lunging for foul balls. They are so focused on "catching the ball" that they are oblivious to those around them. People have landed in my lap, and my beer has gone everywhere, but it is all part of the game. I hope that when all is well again in this world, you may come to America to enjoy a game soon.
they're job is to protect the fans. They are athletic and ball players. They give the ball to kids
I used to go to the games WITH my own glove. A lot of people are ready and are grabbing for the balls that go into the stands. If there were no ballgirls, the games would go a bit slower because someone would always have to trot over and pick up the ball. Not a biggie, I think it just adds an element of fun to the experience of seeing a live ballgame, and there's nothing better than bringing home a real major-league baseball. But yes, people have been hurt. Sometimes a line drive (a ball hit sharply not in a loop, but on a laser-like path) hits someone in the stands in the head and they have to be hospitalized. So ballparks try to put up netting, but it's really annoying having to look through it to see a game.
A couple of people have actually been killed by baseballs going into the crowd. Fortunately that is very rare, and occasionally people are injured but usually not seriously. If you attend a baseball game and sit near the field you need to pay attention all the times!
more like a couple HUNDRED people have been killed by baseballs going into the crowd.
@@ice-iu3vv could you please site your source for that. According to the data I found, only 3 people in the crowd at a major league game have ever died due to being hit by a ball, and one of those was a thrown ball. Certainly many more players have died on a baseball field, but not spectators.
@@greggsmith6043 my source was the historical abstract by bill james "before world war 2 deaths at major league games were shockingly common ". he goes on to talk about fires, upper-decks collapsing, runners from third getting drilled by a line drive , "fans being hit by balls or even bats". so i dont know how many, but it seemed like way more than a couple. sorry if i overstated a point that you may have understated. also i bet if we were talking about moderately severe injuries instead of deaths, the point would be obvious.
@@ice-iu3vv thanks for the clarification. I saw that abstract as well but that covers deaths of any kind during a baseball game, not just spectators being hit by a ball. In any case, there is a real risk of injury if you are in the crowd. Best to pay close attention to the action!
In a typical major league baseball game, they will use approximately 120 balls. All fans who go to the game hope to snag one!
On average, 120 balls per game at about $6 per ball. Home team is responsible for providing them.
Hey! Spring Training has started and the regular season games start in late March early April. If you can find a way, see if you can watch some games! There is nothing more awesome and enrgetic, than JohnSterling making the call on a home run for the Yankees. "IT IS HIGH! IT IS FAR! IT IS.. GOOONE!!" GO YANKEES!!
Ball girls are an addition to the game, but not actually part of the game. Basically used to keep fans from getting onto the field.
The girl playing catch with the outfielder is helping him warm up his arm so he doesn't injure himself during play.
Baseball gloves are made of leather. It can still sting and hurt when you catch a baseball.
A long time ago, they’d try to use the same ball throughout the game. It would get beat up (from all the hits) and darkened (from all the dirt and muck that would get on it) during the game. This stopped in 1920. On August 17th of that year, a 29-year old Ray Chapman died after being struck in the head by a dirty ball that was hard to see while batting. After that MLB passed a rule requiring umpires to change out the ball whenever it gets dirty. Now they’ll virtually never use the same ball for more than one play, and frequently use several balls during the same at bat. During a full, 9-inning MLB baseball game, they go through an average of 84-120 baseballs. That’s why you see them so freely giving them away. Any ball hit or thrown in the stands is the property of who ever catches it (or picks it up). This also applies to bats that are occasionally thrown into the stands when it slips out of the hitter’s hands (though for bats the player will often want it back because they’ve prepped it how they like it; they’ll trade the fan a signed ball or un-prepped bat for the bat they through in).
Ray Chapman is the only MLB player ever to die from an injury sustained during a game.
Lots of girls play baseball (and softball) growing up. Softball is a varsity sport in high school, and a scholarship sport in college. You need to watch a college softball game sometime.
The ball attendants keep fans safe, but also keep these balls off the field, which would delay the game.
@FrenchTastic alot of the ballgirls have played or am playing softball for high school or colleges
They're not there to protect fans as some have said. They are there to pick up balls from the out of bounds area so the players don't have to chase them down during the game. There's two, left and right out of bounds. Some are better than others. The boundary is a straight line from home plate through first and third base to the grandstands. At a baseball game you have to stay alert because you could pretty much get beaned by a baseball at any time.
I hope this helps, best regards from Indiana, USA.
The surface at the edge of the outfield is softer and you can almost bounce off it like a trampoline , that's how the young lady was able to climb the outfield wall. I had to cross the outfield in Baltimore many times during a job I used to do .
I read somewhere that the clip of the girl climbing the outfield wall is fake.
@@alexanderwalter4595 Not sure , but I believe it's real because it can be done .
These young women play women's softball at the college level, a major sport in the US. They are highly trained and skilled athletes. Many try out for just a few positions available. They are not paid but do receive a glove (mitt), uniform, headgear, and shoes.
Cool to see the Arizona flag there! I'm from Tucson myself (said like Two-Sawn)
You are allowed to keep any ball that enters the stands.
You can catch them bare-handed but it will hurt if it's got enough speed. It's even possible to end up with a finger or hand fracture.
I assume you know that bat girls retrieve balls that are no longer in play They are not one of the players---no women on major league teams yet, but hopefully that will come A movie you mght like about how women's teams took over baseball during WWII, but were thrown out after the war when men came back, is an amazing film. Tom Hanks is the manger and Geena Davis, and Madonna! Its called, A League of Their Own. I highly recommend it!
some ballparks are built with better fan-safety down the baselines, so not every team uses ballgirls/boys.
Here in the states baseball players are idolized much like soccer stars around the world. (aka Futbol). I probably did't spell that right. When the kids get the ball if it is signed by the player afterwards it is a very collectable item.
You don’t go to a baseball game here without taking your glove just in case. Very few people will leave with game balls. Most will be fouls but a select few fans will take a home run ball home.
Charming lady. Beautiful accent.💜💜
Cool video. I haven't seen this one. I enjoyed your reaction.
The average speed of the ball off a bat is around 100-110mph.
A lot of times the girls are softball and baseball players that already have the feel for the game.
Unfortunately, here in "sunny" Ireland there are no baseball games or even teams. They do however have a traditional game called Hurling, and they say it is the fastest game played in a football (soccer, if you prefer) pitch.
Women are amazingly great ball players and I think they deserve A League of their own like they used to.
C'était génial 🙌👏 I'm glad you are discovering my favorite sport 😁 and glad that they showed my Washington Nationals 🤗 a few times. They go through over a hundred balls a game. Those ball girls either played Little League Baseball or softball and are good at it since they have to try out for that job. Yes you can get hit by a ball or a bat if you don't pay attention! I hope you do more baseball reactions and learn to love the game 🙏👍 and you go ahead and wear whatever you want, don't worry about the haters 👍 몸 조심해 💕
A hot summer afternoon at the ballgame,cold beer,hot dogs,peanuts and cracker jacks.. and the ball girls don't forget the ball girls :)
Balls get hit off the bat and go almost anywhere in the crowd a lot of people take gloves to the game to try to catch themselves a souvenir and even without gloves I would say normally people don't get her even when it goes into the crowd even though they can get hurt