Off topic: Not a steal, but one of the most exciting plays I've seen is when the Dodgers performed a perfect squeeze play. I'll never forget the sheer joy and excitement from Vince Scully when he yelled "It's a squeeze!"
I was going to comment the same thing. I'm thinking about it though and I'll bet that people who don't love baseball don't find it on the same level of exciting.
Most batters in this montage, as soon as they realize the baserunner is stealing home, get far away from home plate to counter the tactic you mentioned. The batter who got hit by the pitch at 4:22 was upset for letting it happen.
It's pretty amazing how when the pitcher actually doesn't step off and instead delivers a pitch how the ump calls the pitch strike or ball a split second before calling the tag play. Guarantee 99% of the announcers are not picking up on this. And yes to the above comment, there are a few balks in here.
Agreed announcers would never pick up on this. To paraphrase the great Merk Twain (when discussing newspapers), "If you ignore the announcers you are uninformed, if you listen to the announcers you are misinformed."
A couple of these should be balks … the so-called catchers balk. When a catcher stands up, crosses in front of the plate, and receives the pitch … that’s a balk as the pitch never crosses the plate or a boundary. It’s still a pitch with the pitcher engaged with the rubber. Pitches have to cross the plate or a boundary. It’s no different than if the ball slips out of the pitcher’s hand during delivery and only travels 10 feet on the grass. Balk. Batter should swing and hit the catcher. All runners advance on the balk. Batter takes 1B on CI.
I like the one where they throw it over the catcher and the ump signals out, then realizes the ball went to the back stop and then calls it safe. He didn't see what happened and was just purely guessing. He has probably guessed a thousand times before but this time got caught on it.
lmao dog they're only human. he's gotta keep his eyes on if the batter touches the bag and if the tag happens. he made the correct call if the ball was in his glove, and the way it hit his glove and bounced out probably looked like it was in his glove. it's incredibly fast and he doesn't have the angle we have
Rod Carew stole home 17 times, including 7 times in 1969. Davey Lopes was on the front end of many delay double steals with both Billy Russell and Derrell Thomas.
Is 6:30 a foul ball? The batter bunted and the catcher didn't pick it up till the runner was almost to the plate. Shouldn't the runner have had to tag 3rd after the catcher picked it up?
If you step through it frame by frame (use the , and . keys), the pitch is a pretty wicked curve, and it looks like it goes under the bat. So equivalent to a swing and miss, but ball is still in play.
If there's one thing I've learned from this video, I should run when i have little to no chance of scoring because there's a chance the pitcher will throw it away or catch will miss the tag.
Stealing home is one of those things that in the history books boggles the mind. It's crazy when looking at baseball history how much more often it was done long ago. Even a big lumbering and slow player like Babe Ruth had a ton of home plate steals. We know athletes today are a good bit faster so why it happens so much less in modern times is interesting. The only thing I can think of is the relatively soft throwing pitchers of those earlier years made it much easier. It's just a crazy thought that Ruth had 10 which is more than the top 2 career steals leaders Henderson and Brock had combined.
I wouldn't say that Ruth was a lumbering and slow player, at least in his younger days. He had some pretty good speed when he was with the Red Sox and early with the Yankees. But I would agree, it's wild that he has more than Henderson.
This year, while coaching my sons 10yr little league team, we found that if you have the runner take off from third JUST AS the catcher is throwing it back to the pitcher, the pitcher makes a flustered throw back almost every time.. mainly because they’re 10 years old. It ended up being real cheap of us and the parents on the other teams would boo the shit out of us but we won the championship 🤷♂️
I mean there is "stealing home, and then there's stealing home. Many of these are just double steals or situations where the runner is taking advantage of the ball being somewhere else, someone else being in a rundown or whatever.
Only at MLB level can you slide like that into home. Usually that batter's box is deep I remember using some funky late game stances to avoid the cavern.
THE most exciting play in all of sports. It takes at least 2 common attributes, sometimes 3 for every steal of home to be possible. #1-Balls. You have to have cahones. It takes guts. This is my favorite aspect of stealing home. #2-Speed. You have to have some level of speed to beat the throw. #3-(optional) Smarts. Understanding pitchers and catchers habits, the energy of the players. I hate that MLB changed the intentional walk to where the pitchers don't have to pitch out. Many times players would try to steal home during the pitch out. Removing aspects that could bring up the most exciting play in sports, stealing of home, was a stupid move by MLB. But hey, at least the pitcher's aren't throwing dangerous "intentional walk" pitches.
As a Cubs fan…goddamn do I miss having Baez on our team. Jesus Christ, that dude was one of the most electric players I’ve ever seen, and since he got traded he’s lost his spark.
WHY are these catchers reaching for the runner? Move the glove towards the plate... the runner will meet you there- EVERYTIME. No- I didn't play Pro ball... we learned this in Jr. High
Off topic: Not a steal, but one of the most exciting plays I've seen is when the Dodgers performed a perfect squeeze play. I'll never forget the sheer joy and excitement from Vince Scully when he yelled "It's a squeeze!"
This is one of the most exciting plays in all of Baseball 😮..I love to watch it
I was going to comment the same thing. I'm thinking about it though and I'll bet that people who don't love baseball don't find it on the same level of exciting.
Wrong…it IS…without a doubt…the most exciting play in baseball.
Hold On. The runner is coming, the pitcher just hits the batter. That's a dead ball, and everyone goes back tot he base they occupied.
One of those clips was just that. A brilliant, desperate play by the pitcher to save a run (at least for the moment).
@@larrycopeland2413 if I recall this happened during the time where pitchers still batted in the NL, so I believe when he came up to bat they hit him
However, hitting a batter on purpose is an automatic ejection. Might be worth it, but that's the rule.
@@mal2ksc The pitcher could easily claim he was distracted by the runner and rushed his throw. If intentional, it was a genius play on his part.
Most batters in this montage, as soon as they realize the baserunner is stealing home, get far away from home plate to counter the tactic you mentioned.
The batter who got hit by the pitch at 4:22 was upset for letting it happen.
Stealing home from second base takes some huge balls!
Agreed
It's pretty amazing how when the pitcher actually doesn't step off and instead delivers a pitch how the ump calls the pitch strike or ball a split second before calling the tag play. Guarantee 99% of the announcers are not picking up on this. And yes to the above comment, there are a few balks in here.
Agreed announcers would never pick up on this. To paraphrase the great Merk Twain (when discussing newspapers), "If you ignore the announcers you are uninformed, if you listen to the announcers you are misinformed."
The most exciting play in baseball
A couple of these should be balks … the so-called catchers balk. When a catcher stands up, crosses in front of the plate, and receives the pitch … that’s a balk as the pitch never crosses the plate or a boundary.
It’s still a pitch with the pitcher engaged with the rubber. Pitches have to cross the plate or a boundary. It’s no different than if the ball slips out of the pitcher’s hand during delivery and only travels 10 feet on the grass. Balk.
Batter should swing and hit the catcher. All runners advance on the balk. Batter takes 1B on CI.
Exactly
I like the one where they throw it over the catcher and the ump signals out, then realizes the ball went to the back stop and then calls it safe. He didn't see what happened and was just purely guessing. He has probably guessed a thousand times before but this time got caught on it.
lmao dog they're only human. he's gotta keep his eyes on if the batter touches the bag and if the tag happens. he made the correct call if the ball was in his glove, and the way it hit his glove and bounced out probably looked like it was in his glove. it's incredibly fast and he doesn't have the angle we have
@@mrskibum885you can’t be human as a blue. You gotta be a professional.
Fun to see the Hillsboro Hops at the end 8)
Rod Carew stole home 17 times, including 7 times in 1969. Davey Lopes was on the front end of many delay double steals with both Billy Russell and Derrell Thomas.
Barnes did make the tag and the runner was called out after a perfect throw by Kershaw…
Oh no the shohei effect at @1:10 i smiled when I realized it was him
Is 6:30 a foul ball? The batter bunted and the catcher didn't pick it up till the runner was almost to the plate. Shouldn't the runner have had to tag 3rd after the catcher picked it up?
I don't know why it's safe either.
I think the batter didn't actually hit it and was just not caught by the catcher.
if i remember correctly he bunted foul on 2 strikes which is an automatic strike out but not dead ball.
@sirmonkey1985 I wondered that but the count shows 2-1 before the bunt and 2-2 after
If you step through it frame by frame (use the , and . keys), the pitch is a pretty wicked curve, and it looks like it goes under the bat. So equivalent to a swing and miss, but ball is still in play.
If there's one thing I've learned from this video, I should run when i have little to no chance of scoring because there's a chance the pitcher will throw it away or catch will miss the tag.
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Stealing home is one of those things that in the history books boggles the mind. It's crazy when looking at baseball history how much more often it was done long ago. Even a big lumbering and slow player like Babe Ruth had a ton of home plate steals. We know athletes today are a good bit faster so why it happens so much less in modern times is interesting. The only thing I can think of is the relatively soft throwing pitchers of those earlier years made it much easier. It's just a crazy thought that Ruth had 10 which is more than the top 2 career steals leaders Henderson and Brock had combined.
I wouldn't say that Ruth was a lumbering and slow player, at least in his younger days. He had some pretty good speed when he was with the Red Sox and early with the Yankees. But I would agree, it's wild that he has more than Henderson.
He wasn't that slow, at least when he was younger. On defense he mostly played as a corner outfielder.
@@DaDitka How do you know you never saw him play you weren’t even alive
@@omegamanGXE I've read a handful of accounts of him from others who did see him play.
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not sure who that was at 8:12 , but that had to be the ugliest steal of home of all time.
Why are the clips repeated? Get it together.
So what happens on the HBP and steal of home?
They'd call the HBP not the steal. They'd just award the 1st base.
Dead ball, batter gets first, runner sent back to third.
8:12 That was ugly no matter how u look at it
This year, while coaching my sons 10yr little league team, we found that if you have the runner take off from third JUST AS the catcher is throwing it back to the pitcher, the pitcher makes a flustered throw back almost every time.. mainly because they’re 10 years old. It ended up being real cheap of us and the parents on the other teams would boo the shit out of us but we won the championship 🤷♂️
1:00 amazing slide by Shohei. If he extends his bottom leg it's an out.
I mean there is "stealing home, and then there's stealing home. Many of these are just double steals or situations where the runner is taking advantage of the ball being somewhere else, someone else being in a rundown or whatever.
Exactly. I think AI made this video 😡
4:22 smart play by the pitcher, hit the batter so the play was dead.
What’s the Mets one during 2020 where he steals home like the girl from the exorcist
0:59 ohtani
They did the same clip twice
2:53 there is no way in hell they called him safe here IN THE WORLD SERIES
They called him safe because he was safe.
Your athletic prowess is nothing short of remarkable. Kudos to you for your skillful ability.✝️😇🙏💖
I wish I tried this in my 12 years of playing...
What's up with the hit batsman, multiple repeats and plays which are an error allowing a unearned non steal of home
Only at MLB level can you slide like that into home. Usually that batter's box is deep
I remember using some funky late game stances to avoid the cavern.
Stealing home seems like it must take some serious balls. I wonder how much it happens.
THE most exciting play in all of sports. It takes at least 2 common attributes, sometimes 3 for every steal of home to be possible.
#1-Balls. You have to have cahones. It takes guts. This is my favorite aspect of stealing home.
#2-Speed. You have to have some level of speed to beat the throw.
#3-(optional) Smarts. Understanding pitchers and catchers habits, the energy of the players.
I hate that MLB changed the intentional walk to where the pitchers don't have to pitch out. Many times players would try to steal home during the pitch out. Removing aspects that could bring up the most exciting play in sports, stealing of home, was a stupid move by MLB. But hey, at least the pitcher's aren't throwing dangerous "intentional walk" pitches.
Most exciting play in sports lol..
@@mattst.germain4023 Name one more exciting. I'll wait.
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The most disrespectful play in all of baseball. Stealing home!
Thanks for this entertaining video. Best wishes with your channel!
Bro some of those refs are cold they dont move until they make the call
As a Cubs fan…goddamn do I miss having Baez on our team. Jesus Christ, that dude was one of the most electric players I’ve ever seen, and since he got traded he’s lost his spark.
It's tragic to see how awful his career has been the last few years.
Baez hasn’t been the same player since he tested positive for ligma
How did you not pull Elly de la Cruz in this bro he stole home
Fr. That was the only one that I was looking for.
He stole second third and home on i think 4 total pitches lol definitely should have been in this video
Because he’s a cheater who tested positive for ligma
Catcher should know that you don't throw to second when you have men on the corners. That's just asking for the guy on third to take off.
Almost all of them are left handed too 😭
0:16 The Cubs announcers, at least in the portions that we saw (live plus one replay), didn't even acknowledge that it was a steal.
1:04 大谷翔平
8:12 What a terrible defence and runner.
4:27 what's wrong?
I don’t think the SB counts on a HBP
The last one didn’t count that’s MILB not MLB
Where's # 51? There's no way he hasn't stolen home.
where is derek jeter's at baltimore?
YT推薦我看陳偉殷被盜本壘😂
超好笑
Next do a video about not stealing home featuring the Seattle Mariners.
1:11 that was out😭🙏
San vs LA ump is just guessing 🤦🏻♂
Sassy
If it's a stealing home video you got to have Kenny lofton in it.
This will be happening less and less now that the shot clock has been implemented.
Elly De La Cruz not being in this video is a crime
The Pitchers and Catcher in these plays were all sleep
Few of these were out.
The Jason worth play is in there twice
You left out Jackie Robinson and Yogi Berra.
Great video but you gotta end with The Sandlot
Too bad they couldn't show Rod Carew, who stole home six times before the All Star game, then stopped because he felt it was enough.
Where's Elly's steal of 2nd, 3rd and home???
I steal home when catcher throws the ball to the pitcher😅😅😅😂😂😂😂😂
WHY are these catchers reaching for the runner? Move the glove towards the plate... the runner will meet you there- EVERYTIME. No- I didn't play Pro ball... we learned this in Jr. High
last one ain't MLB right?
Kind of misleading some of these are outs not stolen bases
As a lefthanded right-fielder it's really cathartic to see professional infielders 1hop the ball to the catcher from second
TY COBB. The Ultimate home base stealer. The best ever
Major league players don't use their heads to defend.
What about Rod Carew when he stole home for the Twins SEVEN times in one saeson?
Y Rod Carew
Most of these would have been outs if it wasnt a bad throw.
The headline would be better if you wrote History of stealing home. Baseball is the only sport thst has a "home". Thanks for the video.
0:15
That's not stealing home...Thumbs down.
Cut out the whole “there goes arozerena”.
Man I miss the days of homeplate collisions
Most catchers don't.
저건 홈송구로 봐야하나? 타자의 스트라익이나 볼이 추가되나?
想不到第一個苦主就是殷仔....
Im calling the police 😤
新庄のは無いのか？
Sandlot.
Elly de la cruz?
Fantastic clips. But Ty Cobb did it 54 times in his career. Do you see anyone breaking that?
Saassy
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The reason why baseball is not gentle competitive.
The Jet stole home!
No Elly De La Cruz?