Baseball vs Softball at Clarke University 

Girls: discussing pitch strategy Boys: I’m gonna throw a fastball, and then another fastball

Pitcher skipped leg day

the first softball pitcher when she said she was from cedar rapids my immediate thought was "im just chillin.. in cedar rapids"

How how how is there a college pitcher throwing 81 and the catcher not be able to catch him

Finally someone put a softball hitter vs a baseball pitcher

Cameraman: so what is you guys strategy for pitching? Girls: well start with a fastball then a riseball then get him with the changeup Cameraman: so what is your pitch- Guys: yes.

Its tradition to revisit this video every once in a while

My baseball team played a game against our schools softball team and we played their sport... we won 14-1

1:28 thought she said shortstop for a second

Wow, so much anger and aggression in these comments for something that was just for a bit of fun.

I like how the girls call everything a strike

those females givin some bs strike calls

College pitcher throwing 81??

Just wanna point out the first hitter... his on base percentage was a .287 sooooo uh maybe they picked the wrong hitters

as a baseballer and softballer i would say the hardest thing between the to is in baseball trying to see from a different release point and softball is to not dip back cause you may swing and miss more, but also the shorter distance

As a baseball player. I see both as hard if you’ve never played them before.

My high school pitchers throw faster than him

The girl catcher called so many stupid strikes it was embarrassing💀

My guy wasn’t even tossing ched

Y'all talk trash on him throwing only 81 but it's enough to gas most of y'all pretenders lol

Girl: softball is harder than baseball Mike Trout: Hold my beer

For those of you that keep talking about the pitcher, Clarke University is an NAIA team, so they are equivalent to good NCAA DIII schools and average DII schools. Throwing 81 mph as a freshman is very normal for this level. The average DI pitcher only throws around 85-86 mph. Remember, for all those guys that you see throwing 95 mph for Vanderbilt, there are 5 times as many throwing 85 mph for Long Island University, University of Vermont, and Lafayette College.

um... is no one gonnatalk about the guy that majors in philosophy

The guys definitely had more balls.

That’s softball catchers glove was nicce

I think it would not matter because they both have different strategies and skills.

Is no one gonna talk about how the softball players were starting to say that it wasn’t harder then they expected. Then they realized they lost.

I played in the 30-40 men's baseball leagues in Houston and Austin. My manager called one day and said we were playing the all women's baseball team the Coors Silver Bullets on ESPN that night! Turns out we were not on ESPN but the Women looked great in batting and infield practice and we all wondered if we were going to lose so we played 100% like we would against men. We won 12-0. The women could not handle the fastball and were pretty easy to hit. Kinda like playing against teenage boys. Noticed the Silver Bullets on ESPN later that year and they switched to playing the over 40 men.

Dude said ‘’ fastball and another fastball “

Girls got smoked on a 81 mph fastball. So much for the “rubber is closer so it’s harder” argument.

I've played summer league fastpitch and high school baseball. Baseball is MUCH tougher. Our summer league fast pitch team scrimmaged our girls high school varsity squad (ranked in the top 10 in the state for class C in Michigan) who had an all-state pitcher who threw low 60's. Our guys pitcher threw low 70's. We scored 12 runs on the girls in the 1st inning vs 3 straight strikeouts for the ladies. Even though we won the scrimmage, we were also there cheering them on when they went on to play in the districts.

Give us a ump not a catcher

They are the hardest sports to play. It’s an adjustment to read from underhand to over and vise versa

2:39 I lost it when she tried to say that was foul

I’m finally watching this video. It’s been in my recommendations for like 3 years

No joke my best friend from high school was throwing 86 as a freshmen in high school.

That’s the biggest strike zone ive ever seen damn 😂

If you haven't played both of these sports, meaning actually played on a team, you don't have a right to call out anything about the other sport. You are biased, whether you think so or not, you will lean towards your sport. That's human nature, plus you're uneducated, this was just for fun, it's not serious. So chill out with all of the rude comments.

The game isn't always decided on how good the pitchers are, guys. C'mon. You need a good catcher, outfield, and infield. Pitchers get all the glory. (most of the time. Not trying to pick on pitchers).

0:56 “a couple curve balls. they wouldn’t know what to do” there are curve balls in softball too but okay 👌🏼😂

I used to play what we call "fast ball", which looks like your "soft ball" except maybe the ball is smaller and harder, and I had a pretty good on base average (0.62). So someone asked me to come play for their "soft ball" team, which around here means the ball has to go way up in the air (I think you guys might call it "slow pitch"). Anyway I couldn't hit a damn thing. I was constantly swinging well before the ball got to the plate. You'd think that after learning how to hit a ball travelling 60+ mph it would be pretty easy to hit a big fat ball falling out of the sky but I couldn't. I hit one to the fence, struck out all the other times, and then was never asked to play again. So my experience would be that it isn't as easy to change up as one would think.

For everyone commenting about him throwing 81, Greg Maddux averaged under 86 in his later years. He's a Hall of Famer. Pitching isn't about speed.

Thank you guys for doing one of the only fair softball vs baseball competitions on RU-vid.

I’d really like to see this competition done but with the boys throwing full speed

Now lets see them face a real college pitcher around 93.

2:27 apparently that was in the zone

Good video, same age, level of play (as in not a professional vs a college student or retired vs young person). Well done.

Great video showing the different styles.

I want to see guys try to pitch the softball way, like with a whole windmill

“use the riseball since they don’t have experience” right handed mlb pitchers that throw rising fastballs: 👁👄👁

For all of you people saying that 81 is slow, there are MLB pitchers that throw about an 85 fastball, it’s just that it has a lot of movement. Moving fastballs are hard to hit no matter how fast it is.

Way to go razo. Good luck

They must have a different strike zone in softball

I didn't know they pitched so close to home plate

This was fun to watch. It didn't prove that one is better than the other but it did show just how different the two sports are.

2:42 the HONESTY. love it

Give them a softball bat and see what happens👀

The men’s pitcher was just throwing junk... plate discipline ladies

All the people arguing about which is harder... Both are equal. Pitching is hard in softball, but in baseball batting is way harder. They are different so it’s hard to compare fielding... since the fields are bigger in baseball.

I play both baseball and softball, and I loved them. It got hard to manage as I grew up, especially in juniors. They intimidated me so I stopped playing baseball. I still play softball, and it doesn't matter which one was better. I still woulda loved them regardless 😂😊

They got struck out by a pitcher who was throwing 81 that’s sad

Who else imagined a game like this searched it up and was exactly how they thought it would be

This is one of the experiments that accurately work because you put a fastball hitter against a softball hitter and vice verca

Hey Bailey Naperville here also good luck on your season

3:35 she’s one of us let’s go tinleyyyyy

Um I didn’t see who won yet but whatever sport wins it is not better it’s just 3 people playing around

thats a pretty *nice* speed on that curve

Just realized softball might be a little more difficult than baseball

Lol Wiffing on an 81 mph fastball

*I've played softball for 3 years and now I play baseball the switch from a softball to a baseball was super easy somehow*

Finally, I video that has the softball players hit against baseball players

I live so close to where the first two softball hitters are from

I love softball

I’m just saying girls are used to the bigger ball to hit then a baseball in my opinion softballs are easier to hit because they’re bigger bc I’m a softball player and it’s just easier but both did great and both sports are cool

This comment section is blowing up with hate, both Sports are hard... if someone has learned and played one sport for years they are going to think its harder because it has taken so long to master just chill guys.

It's been a year where the rematch

Can we just leave it at both are hard

aye this is all imma say... i’ve been playing softball for 10 years and i’m 14, i play select ball for one of the best teams in my state, and we travel around the country and play some of the best teams known. My family owns a softball/baseball complex and often times i practice with the baseball boys. i have, tried hitting off a 73mph 13 year old boy who was throwing strait gas, hardest shit i’ve ever seen. from going to hitting something at a different release point to that was next to impossible. I’ve also seen guys look like dumbasses tryna hit softball pitching. i’ve had this argument with so many people, and i believe softball and baseball have similar concepts, but such diverse techniques and fundemnetals that it’s hard to compare one another. if a guy learned how softball works, he’d be a fucking all star, if a girl learned how baseball works, she’d be a fucking all star however she most likely wouldn’t hit it as far as guys are averagely taller, heavier, and more muscular than girls due to genetic reasons. if you still wanna be a pussy and argue that one sport is better than the other and you have no factual information, keep on doin it. makes me chuckle 😂

tbh it was easier for the guys to get used to a softball, it’s literally big it’s not hard to hit it.

waiting for that rematch

Baseball catcher can’t block for his life

3:30 wtf I live 5 minute away from Tinley park I randomly found this video.

That was dope! So weird not watching people hate each other ...is this what things were like before? All good attitudes?

Both are the best sports 👍🏽

This is really an opinionated question, based on preference.

I’d piece them up

Where’s the 2nd version

The pitching windups are so different it would be hard to time

lol The pitcher I doubt was a starter and if he was he was going easy on them

Regardless of the result. Can someone explain to me why girls gotta play a different sport. I get softball pitching is hard but why cant they play baseball

For hitting for both sports it’s just hard to adjust to a different style of pitching

kevin hunley sounded like a dude that was named kyle😂💀

Was it even a question who was gonna win lol

81 is cheese

Just imagine throwing at the same distance though I would like to see that like the big fluctuations in results even like different balls to like the baseball pitcher gotta throw the softball and the softball gotta throw a baseball stuff like that would be very interesting

When I was 13 my travel team scrimmaged a softball team we were winning 15-0 at the end of the 3rd and the softball team just left.

I threw that hard in 9th grade in high school. Tf lol

The girls swing was to late and not fast enough

Softball bats are half the width of baseball bats, so it would be much easier to use a baseball bat to hit a softball than a softball bat to hit a baseball.