The Weirdest Game in Baseball History (and why baseball is unpredictable)
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- Опубліковано 18 кві 2020
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I’ve seen that triple play so many times, but I could have never imagined what happened beforehand.
SportStorm no you havent. Its one of 15 unassisted triple plays in the history of the game. This was the last one. Its happened 7 times in the last 52 years to boot.
Jonny B he meant highlights of that particular play, not unique unassisted triple plays in general.
Jonny B They mean that they saw this specific play a bunch of times, not that they’ve seen a bunch of different unassisted triple plays
it's amazing
Bro same the moment I clicked on the video I was like is this the triple play game and I was right
Bruntlett's face at 3:40 says: "I have people buried in my backyard."
I needed that laugh
Can relate
I was waiting for Bartolo Colon to hit a 3 run homer to give the Mets the lead.
They just needed him to drive one, preferably to deep left field
Yeah!! You’d hafta figure the odds on game being one of the weirdest and not having Bart figure in it somewhere! It would’ve been REALLY weird if Colon had played in this game...iirc, he was in his second stint with the White Sox at the time :{)
Well done video, too!
The goat
BARTOLO
If Bartolo Colon was with the Mets and would have hit a 3 run home run for them, it then would have been a walk-off win not just to take the lead in a game. For the Mets were the home team.
As soon as you said error by Bruntlett I knew this was the unassisted triple play.
I watch Jon Bois too you see
I literally rewatched that video like 30 minute ago. This is kinda creepy.
J ha, weird
@@apacheman3131 Yeah UA-cam’s algorithm is soooo creepy lol 🤦♂️ I’m shaking in my boots
Phillies fan here, I remember when Utley got injured and Bruntlett had to play in his place. My dad and I hated him, then he turned the U3 and we thought "he might be good"... we were wrong.
Mets fan here, I remember when Utley injured our shortstop and Reyes had to come back and hit .230 and play in his place. I hate Chase Utley, that was a dirty slide and you know it.
@Evan Risman
The Mets still won that series and won the pennant so who cares
@@sadmetsfan7660 That was Ruben Tejada being an idiot trying to be cute turning a double play by spinning around instead of getting the sure out at second and eating the ball up. Utley made a hard clean slide and you know it.
@@aidenhess8570 Mets still have not won a world series in almost 35 years!
Two more than my Padres nonetheless
4:40 - I love how Frenchy is even _smiling_ as he's yelling at the ump; even in that situation he's not in a bad mood at all lol
probably a little bit of disbelief on his part - that was a clean play he made, the ump must have been literally looking the other way
I loved that guy when he played for the braves. Kinda guy you can't help but pull for.
I was actually at this game, my first mlb game I ever went to
The best game you’ll ever see everything else will be so bland as the bar was was set so high
Same here, not my first game though. I had a Pedro Martinez Mets jersey and wore it to this game bc he was on the hill for the Phills
The highlight of my short lived high school baseball career was an unassisted triple. Didn’t even mentioned Brad Lidge ( arguably the best closer in the national league during that era) was the pitcher on the mound for that random ending.
Lidge was actually struggling that year
I remember watching this game live. Big Phils fan. Bruntlett went from my dads most hated person to most beloved in a fraction of a second
Once you said Bruntlett I remembered the game
Same.
Baseball’s regularity is the exact source of its mystique and intrigue. Ironically, the mundaneness of baseball is exactly what makes it so exciting when something odd happens. I think the Big Guy upstairs was having fun with this one!
I remember this game perfectly. I did remember about Pedro Martinez playing for the phils that year at 40 years old. We also had a 46 year old Jamie Moyer start in that rotation. Man I miss the years that the Phillies were fun to watch everyday
Mets' fan here... I was curious as to where this video was going, and then BAM! That. A play I'd seen many times before 🙃 (BTW, when I think of unassisted triple plays, the first that comes to mind is Bill Wambsganss in Game 5 of the 1920 World Series. My dad raised me on The Fireside Book of Baseball and there's a full story about that game by baseball writer Harry Cross. ❤️)
I usually go to 1 Mets game a year. This was my first game ever at Citi Field as a 9 year old and still remember this. One of my favorite baseball memories
I'm a Phillies fan and I remember this game pretty well for being 1 game out of 162 over the last 15 seasons that i've watched religiously. Knowing the nature of the video and seening Bruntlett playing 2nd I knew right away that this was the triple play video!
You should do a video like this but about the 7th inning of game 5 of the 2015 ALDS between the Blue Jays and Rangers. That was one of the weirdest innings ever with a run scoring after the ball thrown back to the pitcher was accidentally deflected by the batter and then 3 errors in a row in the bottom half of the inning. crazy.
Oh 2009 metsies 😔
I’m glad I watched this through. As it went on, I was like “so a team gave up a solid lead. I’m a Royals fan. I see this at least 30 times a season.”
I read, I think the Sporting News some 30 years ago, that the season is so long as a result in the seemingly randomness of the game.
I remembered watching this game live when I was little. It was insane. The Mets find any way possible to loose.
Lose* and They were down 6 nothing not hard to "find a way to lose" after that.. Good day junior
I knew which game this was immediately because I watched it when it happened. I’ll never forget sitting in the backseat of my dad’s car, watching the game on my dad’s phone on delay while he was playing it on the radio and the shock we both had at hearing Howie Rose call that last play. As soon as it happened, he pulled over and I gave him the phone and we both watched that play in awe thinking “how the hell did that happen?”
I still remember exactly how I felt, as a Mets fan, when I saw this happen.
I remember watching that game from start to finish and it was rather crazy especially that awesome ending! It's a moment I'll never forget as a Philadelphia Phillies fan! That's the kind of Philadelphia Phillies team we need again!
I remember watching this game live and seeing that triple play to end it. As a life long Mets fan, I just remember sitting there and thinking "this is another one of those things that would only happen to us..."
One of my personal favorite games. I distinctly remember sometime around the 5th or 6th inning thinking this might be the weirdest game I've ever seen. Can't believe you didn't mention Perez going 3 balls and 0 strikes to Pedro. (PEDRO!) In the top of the first. Only time I've seen a pitcher pulled mid-AB without an injury.
Phils fan here. Was at this game after a night partying in Manhattan. Unbelievable. Great vid!
I remember one of my first games with my dad, i was asking him how can a pitcher pick off someone at second base. Seems impossible. That inning it happened, i will never forget.
I love baseball ⚾
Great Video Man! Keep up the great work.
Something that’s even weirder, when you said this could’ve been the weirdest game ever, I liked the video and it went from 650 likes to 666 likes.
I remember this game because that day I was out driving with my dad, doing my practice for my drivers test, and we listened to the game on the radio and turned it off when we got home. I turned it back on JUST in time to see jeff hit into the triple play and lost my flippen 17 year old mind
Nice video. Thanks. You should find out if those batters were instructed to target Brentlett because that's what it looks like. If this is so it definitely backfired in spectacular fashion! Good job by both teams.👍
Really enjoying your videos. Keep up the good work.
EXCELLENT fit for the video title. I remember every pitch of that game. Jerry Manuel took Oliver Pérez out with 2 out in the 1st and it was Pedro's first game back in NY I believe.
Oh by the way, that ball on which Frenchy made that catch? I do believe that was hit by.... wait for it.... Eric Bruntlett. The batter at 4:38 is, misleadingly, Raul Ibañez.
Crazy enough, Gary sheffield hit a Home run milestone with the Mets! lol
This game was on my birthday, and the same day I was heading off to camp for a week. I heard the beginning of the game in the car on the way to camp and couldn't have imagined it getting weirder. It wasn't until a week later that I found out how it ended.
That Chris Traeger reference from Parks & Rec probably went over so many people’s heads but not mine!! Your videos are the best man lol
(looks at the thumbnail) Huh, I didnt know Tom Cruise played for the New York Mets. Neat :D
Baseball youtubers should start photoshop people into their thumbnails who realistically have no reason to be there. I want to see Elon Musk vs Taylor Swift in the world series
I had a triple play in little league all stars with a pretty good size crowd! I was at first base and dove and caught a line drive that was on the base and got the first base runner out at basically the same moment I caught the line drive, then I threw it home because I was on the ground I think. I was a catcher tho so I threw it from the ground and he was out by a mile!! One of my best memories, I wanna say it was a close game and one of the last innings also
That was really cool, loved the video!
Thanks for sharing. Loved it.
5:30 ... I don't watch baseball, but I recognized that play and especially that shot right there.
Goosebumps. Great video.
Wow! The context for that unassisted triple makes it just that much more impressive. Cool.
Well done video. It is hard to get newbies that have never played to enjoy the game
Watch baseball enough, and you will see something that you have never seen before. It's the beauty of the greatest game on earth.
That was a pretty weird game for sure.
One of my favourites though, as a Jays fan of course, is the infamous Jays v Texas game 5, 7th inning madness.
Make a video about that one.
Lol I’m a die hard Phillies fan and I remember that game like it was yesterday. That triple play took about 5 minutes for me to register before I jumped up in excitement because I couldn’t believe what had just happened. You want to talk about redemption? That’s the ultimate redemption after committing 2 straight errors!
Awesome video!
As a Phillies fan I went absolutely nuts when this happened on tv 😂
Yes, I remember all of Pedro's career. Being a Sox fan, and a fan of yours that isnt a kid, and was graduating in 09.
I remember that game all to well. My girlfriend of 5 years broke up with me a week before, and I remember that play sinking me deeper in my depression lmao
Genesis Berrios lol the way life goes brother. See u got a girl now from ur pic so good for u man hope ur happy now brotha!
Isn't win probability jumping from like 30% to 0% when the game ends pretty common?
@TowwerN3 that's just the triple play, not the win prob dropping to 0%.... but it still isn't common. It happens, for sure, but only when a team is like down by a run with the bases loaded, in the bottom of the ninth, with one out, and they get into a game ending double play or something like that
@TowwerN3 Strange. I would think a .300+ hitter with fast runners on 2nd and 3rd, two outs, and a one run deficit would easily give you that result. But maybe the odds of the runner on second scoring is a little too low, no matter how fast he is, or how good the hitter is. Or maybe Ted Williams never faced that situation.
@@Greasyspleen That might be a 15% at best, I mean 70% of the the time the guy is going to make an out, so we are already left with less than a 30% chance of even tying the game. Tying the game only changes the odds a bit. On top of that, the odds that they use for win probability aren't based upon any specific skill sets of anybody involved in the play. It's based upon league average in those situations (which is partially why WPA has been ridiculed for years, even within the stat community.... it's useful if everyone involved in the discussion knows what it's saying, but it's another one of those stats-like wins for pitchers, rbi, errors, fielding percentage, saves, save percentage, oWar/dWar etc- that is constantly used wrong by talking heads.)
The other thing is that this video is talking about WPA drop from it's highest percentage possible on one play. More than likely the highest wpa possible positive it can get is, home team losing by 3 runs, two outs, bottom of the ninth and a walk off grand slam. On the other side of things, which is what this video is pointing out, the probable biggest drop in percentage off of one swing is nearly exactly that same situation....with two differences 0 outs, and the home team losing by one run. In that situation the home team, on average, has about a 40% chance of winning---a 1-2-3 double play probably drops it to around 10% alone)
Yes. Percentage swings are exaggerated at the end of a close game.
Two outs, bottom of the ninth, tied game is about 50/50, slight advantage for home team. A walk off homer moves the scale almost 50 pts.
Backyard Football Menu Music!!!! My favorite new channel
Bruh, the way you weaved Jon Bois into this was fantastic.
nice video. subbed
Yup. I remember this game and the Luis dropped pop fly... was watching both live and was contemplating my decision to be a Mets fan both times.... oh to be a met fan....
I’ll never forget this game. I was watching it from the hospital after I had a major surgery. As a mets fan, that was a bad idea. Especially given how the game ends. I screamed at the tv.
I remember watching a minor league game....it was the very first game of the season at our home ballpark. A Braves prospect swung at the first pitch and ended up hitting an inside the ballpark HR. Damn I wish I would have caught that on my phone......one of my many baseball clip miss regrets!
My dog was named Ollie after Oliver Perez. You broke my heart when you mentioned Luis Castillo, I remember that game like it was yesterday lol
Phillies had an unassisted triple play in the same fashion (though not to end the game obviously) with Mickey Morandini. The strange thing about that (based on my memory of watching a video about it when I was a kid) is they have no idea what happened to the ball.
Rather than keeping it as a souvenir or whatever, Mickey just threw it up in the air by the mound for the next half inning's pitcher, and then the game went to break.
This game reminds me of a game I witnessed LIVE while sitting in a seat at Candlestick Park. The date was August 21, 1996. The game featured the San Francisco Giants and the New York Mets. My first trip to San Francisco from New York. I planned this trip to visit family, do some tourist stuff (Alcatraz Island, Fisherman’s Wharf and go to Candlestick to see the Giants play. The game started with the Mets taking a 7 - 0 lead into the bottom of the 5th inning. The Giants scored 11 runs in the last 3 innings, the Mets added 3. After 8 and 1/2 innings the game ended. The Mets lost 11-10. I got to see the Giants beat my home town team in San Francisco.
Mets have weird games and Astros have extra inning records. Somehow certain teams are just a magnet for certain things.
As an Orioles fan, the most recent reason why I like baseball is the last game of the 2011 season against Boston.
Boston did fist pumping in a series either in July or August. As if the Orioles are the Yankees (at this point, the Birds are in year 14 of a rebuild [sarcasm]).
Therefore, that last game (and at bat) against Papplebon is one of many reasons why I like baseball.
OMG! I was AT this game! A few of my friends and I got together to buy a 16-game plan in 2009 and this was one of the games we got...that ending was hilarious.
Braves fan from Georgia ..... I remember watching this game live, and really for no other reason than to see Francouer. I was always rooting for him to succeed; the look on his face after this play was especially painful.
There’s nothing more painful in this world than being a Mets fan.
But we're still loyal to em lol
I’d say Mariners hurt the most
What is world series? - Mariner fan
I'm sure it hurts, but dude I'm an Atlanta sports fan...
Y'all are the team with the most squandered talent, but I was at game 5 of the NLDS last year, and it was nothing compared to the falcons Pat's superbowl. The only thing worse than squandered talent is squandered opportunities. The braves haven't won a playoff series since 2001. Even before that, the Braves won the division every year in the 90s went to the world series 5 times and won 1. We lost the 91 world series when Lonnie Smith literally lost track of the ball and just stopped running on second. We are cursed. We are cursed to be disappointed at the Pinnacle of our success. On the other hand I am a Volunteer football fan, a legendary team, devolved to a dumpster fire, and I just don't feel anything. It sucks but not caring hurts way less than having your hopes destroyed in the most humiliating ways.
Great video!
Such good content on this page
I was on the phone with my brother watching the game and I joked, “If he hits a liner to 2b with the runners moving its a triple play”. Next pitch.........Swear to God.
This is what I like about baseball. No matter what math or science you try to use with it, there's always going to be that magic behind it.
Now I Remember this game, as a Mets fan I was trying to forget about it thanks! Lol
I was at the game and remember it so vividly. It was the day after my dad´s birthday and my brother had got us tickets to the game as my dad´s present and right before the bottom of the 9th we walked all the way down and sat directly behind home plate. I didn´t care about sports back then but within a couple years of that I was a fanatic and as ridiculous it was to see as a Mets fan I would have to say it the greatest moment I have ever seen in person.
Want a weird game? August 1986, Angels at Fenway and both teams are doing their damnedest to lose the game. Goes extra innings. Former Sox, now Angle 3rd bagger Rick Burleson drops a 2 out popped foul ball onto fair territory with runners on. Being 2 outs the base runners are circling the bases scoring, and the batter ends on second. It was a classic
I had no idea which game this was when I clicked on it but then I knew when I saw the date. I didn’t remember any other details about the game but I’ll always remember that triple play. I was on vacation in Ocean City NJ and I had just caught the very end of the game after getting settled in the motel room. I didn’t start watching Phillies games religiously the way I do now until 2010 so it was pure luck that I happened to catch one of the best moments in baseball history live.
When I was 8, a bunch of us would often get together and play a pick-up-game at the local little league diamond. I usually played shortstop. With runners and first a second, the batter hit a ball directly over 2nd base. I dove for it, caught it, landed on second and the runner from first slide into me. The guys did not believe it was an unassisted triple play. BTW, I grew up a Mets fan, and they were known for finding ways to lose a game ... this may have been the weirdest.
As a Phillies fan, this game I definitely one of my all time favorites. To be fair, the Eric Bruntlett factor is a lot less compelling when you realize he was nowhere near an everyday player. He was a bench guy that played SS or 2B when Rollins or Utley had the day off.
Having the realization of what game this was midway through just made me smile. Like oh it’s This Game yeah things will get way weirder
Me and my sister were at a really fun promotional thing the team did for a little while called "Mets At The Movies." They'd rent a movie theater in Long Island or Queens and feed the SNY broadcast of an away game to the movie screen, and team reps would come and do giveaways and trivia and stuff between innings. It was really neat. Then this insane shit happened. I think it was the last one of those they ever did lol.
I remember watching this live. Absolutely stunned after the final play.
Pedro actually pitched for the Phillies in games 2 and 6 of the World Series that year. Even though his velo was at its absolute bottom (87-90), Pedro was still Pedro and he battled his ass off.
I was 14 years old when I watched this game and after seeing that triple play I said to myself that’s it I’m not a Mets fan anymore.. I’m still a Mets fan but this game specifically that play lives in my head rent free.
Makes me really happy that you are a Mets fan and that this happened to the Mets
Its funny, I not only knew Sheffield played for the mets but actually think of him as a Met (and Tiger) cause thats the team he played for when I was old enough to actually remember players and their teams
Joey Votto could’ve had an unassisted triple play this season. The runner had no idea what had happened. Crossed home and was in the dugout. Votto just threw the ball to third though if I am remembering the play correctly
I love the backyard baseball background music
Damn I remember watching this game when I was probably 11 or 12 and I was beside myself the whole day lmao
I miss the old layout of citi field. Those walls were nuts! Super deep at points and varying heights and angles.
I grew up and still to this game i am a Phillies fan. I remember this game like it was yesterday.
Oh wow, I kinda watched that game. I was working overnights at the time and I was nodding off on the couch until the triple play.
I remember watching this game so many years ago. Speechless.
I was at a game in September for Sunday Night Baseball that Pedro was pitching for the Phils and it was one of the best pitched games I have ever been to.
I remember watching this game on TV when I was like 14; Lidge was terrible that year, so I thought the Phillies were screwed. I looked away for a few seconds, looked back, and it was over. Couldn't believe it.
I remember this game. Utley had a rare day off against lefty Perez. Bruntlett played and the rest is history. Lol
part of the crazy on that play was that if not for the Hit and Run, that most likely would have been a single up the middle leading to the tying run in scoring position with no outs.
I will never EVER forget this game. Probably will never see a more bizarre baseball game in my lifetime.
Love your baseball stuff. So, you grew up a Mets fan - are you old enough to remember the 19 inning July 4 game in 1985? Where Rick Camp hit a home run to tie the game among other oddities? I'd have to put that as one of the weirdest of all time. It'd be great if you could find something on that.
the past Decade+ my Father & I point out Each Game we watch that we will witness something unique that we've never seen before.
Furcal turned an unassisted triple play in 03'. It wasn't to end the game, but it's just the same. Rare.
Man, I remember watching that unassisted triple play live
I'm a Mets fan and always will be. I don't like revisiting these events that only seem to happen to the Mets. However that Parks and Rec reference at the end gets you a like.
I didn’t know Gary Sheffield was even playing baseball anymore in ‘09 lol. This is a unique game, I also like all the clips, explanation, and the decent documentary voice. However, strangest baseball game ever? I don’t think so. There have been games played without any fans at all. And people stood outside the stadium to watch. But most importantly, you got the Game “10cent beer night”. There is no game in the history of baseball that did or I think ever will again get as crazy or weird as that game. There is literally so much to say, I would just go watch the weird history UA-cam video on it. But in short the entire stadium was hammered, running on the field and fighting players, and both teams grabbed bats and had to defend each other from the fans. It goes on, and on.....and on. But a hilariously strange game that will go down in the record books as the craziest, weirdest, most infamous game in sports history.