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Yeah, but the pro teams have pretty much all covered their stadium so they don’t have to worry about it. College is another story. But there aren’t many covered baseball stadiums.
Grandpa always told stories about playing football in highschool while living in MN. Coaches stayed in warm buses while the players ran in 6" deep snow while it was still snowing. Sounds like fun times.
August 24th, 1919...a pitcher named Ray Caldwell (Cleveland Indians) was struck by lightning while on the mound...after regaining consciousness he said to his catcher: Give me the ball. He finished a complete game after being struck by lightning. He lived until the age of 79 30 players have died from lightning strikes please note that batting helmets weren't mandated back then. His teammate (at Shortstop) would die a year later via a pitch to the head while at bat...the ONLY player fatality from a pitched ball in MLB history...this caused the batting helmets to be mandated.
Alex Robinson also allegedly the first fatality “at” a baseball game was a fan being handed a knife by another fan to sharpen his pencil for keeping score and the foul ball hitting the knife and which ended up stabbing him in the chest. Late 1800s or early 1900s I believe. Most of baseball from then is just legend though.
Those were the good ol' days, back when players didn't quit playing because of some minor incident such as getting struck by lightning, and they certainly didn't lay down and die from it.
I remember playing in a game it was sunny and then 10 minutes later, we had a tornado warning and ran to the cars and left. Good times. There was a clip in here that was in 9th and a blowout. If it was another part of the game, they may stop. But when it’s that close, you just save everyone time and finish it. Depends on the weather conditions. If it’s a quick storm that’ll pass in an hour, they’ll just wait it out. Sometimes they wait until the next to continue the game. Rarely, a couple times in the video, they’ll continue the game the next time the two teams play in the opposing city. In the case of the tie with the Cubs and Pirates, I believe it was the last game of the season and they literally couldn’t schedule another date. Also, you should watch the Kansas-Kansas State fight that happened last night in college basketball.
As someone who lives in Kansas (Rock Chalk!!) I have never been so angry whenever I realized that De Sousa was going to get suspended for forever. I love him but we kinda need him since he's kinda good.
I remember in high school practicing and having lightning around the field to the north, west, and south. We were taking turns getting some BP and I was the last up, looked at the coaches, told them fuck that, and proceeded to get my stuff and leave. Needless to say practice was called at that point.
It's the decision of the umpire how they decide how to conclude a game affected by weather, they can delay the game until the weather clears ( sometimes picking up the game where it left off the next day) Or, if they have played more than five innings, the umpire can say the game can not continue and the team leading at that point is declared the winner.
Yea I've been to games that are delayed just for lightning. The rule they announced was once they hadn't visibly seen lighting for 15 minutes they'd restart the game. It only took like 30-35 if I remember right.
7:30 There actually was an incident some years ago where there was a fire in the Cincinnati Reds stadium during the game. They kept playing the game while the firefighters dealt with the fire. Worth a reaction.
2:05 we call this Tuesday in Canada. Baseball actually has rain delays quite often as it becomes really hard for the pitchers to grip the ball in the rain, and it ends up becoming a safety hazard as they will end up throwing it all over the place and maybe hitting the batter
69,420 subs with no videos challenge metal bats, yes, wood bats like the ones used in the MLB, no. Anyways, the material of the bat, or even if your holding one or not isn't going to change the fact that you're standing in the middle of a field in a thunderstorm and that you should probably get off the field so you don't get struck
There was another game where the wind had kicked up and a member of the grounds crew was holding onto the edge of the tarp. The tarp was pulled up into the air like a sail, and so quickly that by the guy time the guy realized he was in trouble it was too late to let go. I think he was probably already 30 feet in the air. So he held on for dear life. Unfortunately the wind died as quickly as it came up and he was slammed into the ground. He was seriously hurt. It was horrible to see. (It’s now very difficult to find that video -they may actually have taken it down shortly after it was posted all those years ago. Don’t blame them. He was nearly killed.)
In baseball, they have something called a "doubleheader". Its when you play 2 games in one day. You do this to make up rained out games.. In baseball you play 25 out of 30 days, every month... Hard to make up a game that got rained out, with that schedule.
We have more land mass over here on our side of the Atlantic than y'all do in the UK, so the weather has much more room to spread out and do whatever it feels like doing, depending on Mother Nature's mood. We can have earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, wild fires, blinding snow storms, and violent hail storms all at the same time in different parts of the country.
I was visiting my Aunt in Vegas from Southern New England in January, one year. The day I left it got up to 65f back home, but dropped from the 70s in Vegas to the upper 30s. I was there for a week-it snowed twice. Meanwhile back home the temp. was ranging from 60-70 degrees. The day I got back the temp dropped 33 degrees in 6 hours. I got off the plane and it was 38. 🤷🏼♀️. When you travel in The States, you check the weather along the way!
I watch a lot of people who react to sports clips, but you're one of my favourites because you cover more than just the highlight clips. I really like that and hope you continue. Cheers, mate!
When i was a pup, about a million years ago, I went to several San Francisco Giant games at Candlestick park, over several seasons, that got called for fog. It was so foggy that the pitcher could not see home plate. Never mind the outfielders. We always all got "rain checks" each time for the subsequent replay games. Life in SF when the fog moves in it really moves in. Many times it gets so foggy that you cannot see across the street.
If they make it through 4.5 innings, the game is counted as official, and they won't have to finish the rest later (although they will try to). If it's doesn't make it that far, then they can cancel the game for the rain and make it up on another day. Each team plays 162 games over the course of 6 months, so they have games almost every day from April through September. It's difficult to find days when both teams aren't doing anything else, so they'll play doubleheaders to make up for rain cancelled games. That means they'll play two games on the same day. Teams go to a city and play three or four games against the same team on consecutive days, so it's common for a rain delayed game to be made up with a doubleheader the next day.
@@bryanread6663 But the Royals, who were the home team, were losing and on their at-bat. Meaning the Indians got more chances, and it wouldn't be fair to call the game there. If the Royals were winning they could've called it, but not when they are losing with less chances to bat.
And we stood in line for FOUR HOURS in July, St Louis Missouri heat, to see Kings Of Leon in concert and they left the stage after 2 songs because a pigeon in the rafters pooped on Jared's shoulder.
I went to a Rolling Stones concert in L A. many years ago where it started pouring rain about halfway through. They just kept on singing & finished the show! It was one of the best concerts I've ever seen !!! Still love those guys!
I was watching that Red Sox/Yankees game when the lightning hit. LOL, the way they jumped! These big tough guys! It was adorable. The stuff they are pouring onto the infield dirt is a material that absorbs more than 200 times its weight in water and holds onto it. It dries out the infield dirt very quickly. The dirt has to be as dry as possible so that it doesn’t get clogged up in the cleats of the ball players, and definitely to protect the pitchers who needs solid footing when they land in order not to get hurt. With regard to how Major League Baseball handles games ‘called’ due to inclement weather, the game is considered “official” at the end of the fifth inning. If the game is called earlier than the fifth inning, due to inclement weather, it will have to be completed at a later date. This is from the MLB official rulebook: “If a regulation game is terminated early due to weather, the results are considered final if the home team is leading. If the home team is trailing, the results are considered final if the game is not in the midst of an inning when the visiting team has taken the lead. If a regulation game is terminated early due to weather and the game is either tied or in the midst of an inning in which the visiting team has taken the lead, it becomes a suspended game that will be completed at a later date from the point of termination.” There is so much money involved in baseball games, with the airtime and advertising, not to mention concession sales, that an incomplete game cost an incredible amount of money. MLB tries to play as long as possible. Additionally, although I’m sure room is built into the schedule for rain days, ultimately it means that at some point the teams are going to have to play a doubleheader. Two games back to back. Considering that one team will have had to travel across the United States to get to the other’s park, you can assume that one team will always be more tired than the other. Also, I personally watched a game that was 17 innings long. These are _long_ games, and they keep going until the very last out. You could legitimately have an eight hour long game, then a break, and then have to play another nine inning game the same day/night. There have been games that have finished after midnight. That’s another reason they try to play in bad weather - so that that eventuality doesn’t have to be dealt with.
11:08 those guys are reliving a toy sold in the USA called a Slip 'n Slide, It was basically a tarp like plastic length that you point a lawn sprinkler at and slide down it.
I remember the Slip-N-Slid!! Most dangerous kids toy since Jarts. Stuff was slipperier than a sheet of ice-I distinctly remember my feet coming out from under me and the back of my head slamming into the ground! Good times!!
9:00 in and yep, welcome to St. Louis. About 10 years ago during a game there were winds so strong that carts full of beer for sale went flying. Somehow no-one got hurt, though.
Well, this person probably at least had his/her pride hurt a bit, if not a few bruises... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dx0kIbqjwrc.html
When games are suspended they call a “rain delay”. This means they either wait until the storm passes and pick up where they left off at a later time, or they will add the missed game play to another day and play a “double-header” or partial innings. This means they will just play the rest of the game or cancel the play and start over as a new game. It’s up to the umpires to figure out whatever the best and most fair decision would be.
In American Football you play through anything unless there is lightning in the area, then the game gets suspended until it passes. In baseball, too much rain will result in unplayable field conditions. They will usually try to play through the rain if it's not that bad. If it gets bad and the game is in progress, they will put on the tarp and try and wait it out. If it's going to rain all day, they will just cancel the game and schedule it for another day. If 5 innings are completed and the game gets canceled due to rain, then whoever is winning at the time wins the game. If the game is under 5 innings and the game is canceled, they have to replay the game on a different day.
Thank you Luka for the great reactions. I appreciate the fact that your videos are your true reactions and not some hyped-up over the top, obnoxious reaction. Love your videos. Keep up the good work! Stay real!
Probably too late for you to see this, but in 2019 the US Major League Rugby had two matches during big snow storms. Utah vs Nola and Glendale vs Toronto. They had to constantly shovel the lines across the field so players knew where they were on the pitch.
FYI Lavish Luka: They pull out the tarp to cover the infield, just to keep it from becoming a muddy mess. Then they have a "rain delay" and they wait until the rain stops or slows up. If the rain doesn't stop and they can't continue, they can finish the game on another day. If it's a complete game (after the fifth inning) and both sides have had an equal chance to bat, they can just end the game. Baseball has nine innings, but it's a complete game in the fifth inning and they can stop after that. Baseball is a summer sport, so you don't often have snow delays. But at the start of the season in early spring or at the end of the season in fall, you can get snow in northern cities like Toronto, Boston, New York, Cleveland, Chicago, and so on.
When I was a kid playing little league (not the stuff you might see on TV, just normal youth baseball), I remember we had an umpire who refused to call the game for weather and the skies were practically black on a late afternoon game. It's important to note that at that young age, we used aluminum bats... professionals use wood, not metal, so there's inherently an increased risk of lightning. Parents from both teams pulled all of us from the game. I remember one of the fathers throwing a bat down at the umpire's feet and telling him to go stand out there for a couple hours if he wanted to see someone get struck and killed by lightning so bad.
Our 2nd son is a MLB agent. He works out what kind of money deals for players that get drafted by MLB teams. He was first a scout for the Atlanta Braves and now he's an agent. Most teams have rain delays for safety now. Better to be safe than dead.
When it comes to playing in weather, a win in the rain, in the snow, is always remembered as exceptional. More so than a win on a sunny day. Its a bit like F1 in that regard. Loved this video!
I don't think there's a compilation for this, but the NHL does 1 outdoor game a year called the Winter Classic. You want to see some harsh conditions. in 2008 and 2014, it was snowing during the game, and in 2014 and 2018 it was below freezing. In 2014 it was 13 degrees Fahrenheit (about -11 degrees Celsius) with a windchill of 0 F or -17 C when they started the game. In 2018, conditions were about the same (just no snow).
In MLB the grounds crew are amazing. It is something to watch them cover the field. So quick and like one unit. They also have their fun when tending the field and finding little ways to give the home team an advantage. Not really allowed, but no one cares.
I played baseball for Kansas state university and our season would always start in February. The ground crew staff had to shovel snow off the field just so we could play our game in 20 degree weather. Lots of fun
Baseball will call off a game if the weather gets bad enough, but football never gets called off. There's a famous Patriots vs. Raiders divisional playoff game from 2001 called, The Snow Bowl. It was insane!
baseball in the midwest is insane, especially when a lot of them are open. start the season in snow/sleet and end the season with snow possibly. ‘cold’ at the start of the season and ‘cold’ at the end of the season
11:06 Yeah, that’s whoever wants/has time to play. I remember doing this as a kid in my front yard, we’d cover the grass with a huge tarp and turn the whole thing into a giant slip-n-slide.
They will continue play after a rain delay in certain situations. I’ve watched baseball games that end at 3am on more than 1 occasion. Love your videos!!
In some parts of the US, the pop-up thunderstorms we get usually only last up to an hour, sometimes less, then it clears up and the game can restart. Rain delays are typical in baseball.
When I was in high school I ran cross-country (5km). We ran in anything. Except once when the hail got big enough to actually hurt they paused the race. But I ran in snow, rain, lightning, through lakes, mud, etc. It made it fun and exciting and always different, and a challenge every time to push through whatever the course/weather threw at you. 2:55 is my home. Denver. We had some wild games. Tornado warnings the other side of the city, and they're playing.
There are usually pretty stiff regulations in youth baseball about lightening strikes where you have to end the game. When my son was 8 years old, he was playing in a game where thunderstorms were predicted. The sky was getting darker and the wind was picking up. Then, one of the parents watching the game took a picture with her cell phone. It was dark enough that the auto-flash went off. The umpire saw the flash out of the corner of his eye, thought it was a lightening strike, and sent everyone home. Game called because of flash photography! But it was a good call on his part - before my son and I got to my truck, the rain had started coming down in buckets, and lightening started before we got home.
My father coached little league baseball and I remember the coaches, fathers, and spectators spreading sand on the infield to try and play after a thunderstorm. I grew up watching my brothers , friends, and sons play baseball. Children learn to play in all conditions but lightening. If lightening is seen or reported close by play is called until the lightening moves out. Very few games are suspended because it is so hard to make up innings or games.
that last one was so significant because it was in may that snowfall... lol its rare for them to get snow in the post season which can go all the way to very very late October but usually by the time the season starts it's fairly warm and they don't really have to worry about snow too much like maybe a little in late march/early april when the season first starts but never in may which was the significance of that. :)
baseball players most of the time wear metal cleats, also holding metal bats and wearing metal face guards. it becomes a hazard to have players out there when you see lightning. most of the time, an umpire won’t do anything unless they see lightning. so you could go through an entire thunderstorm with all rain and thunder, and not get the game called, but one strike of lightning without any thunder or rain could delay the game for the next 20-30 minutes at the least. it’s only because a lot of players have died being struck by lightning while holding or wearing something metal on the field so now they take a lot of precautions when the weather is bad like this.
In baseball if they've completed 5 of the 9 innings they can call it a complete game early. If they're not through 5 they'll scrap it entirely and try again by playing a double header on another day. If the game is tied and past 5 innings, games can't end in a tie in baseball, so they'll come back and pick up where they left off on another day. In that one clip where they say it's tied in the 10th, baseball is usually only 9 innings but if it's tied they play another inning, and repeat until an inning ends with one team on top. There have been games that went into 20+ innings, playing into the wee hours of the morning with both teams running short on players, it's wild. Usually if there's rain they try to delay it as long as possible before calling it a day, I've been at Phillies games where it was on rain delay for three hours, almost the entire crowd left, and they ended up playing after all.
I live your comment on the hall being so big. Because it gets bigger. Last time I saw baseball sized though it wad thrown to us by a tornado that was like 5 miles away. Except we were camping and our emergency radio decided to not work so we had no idea. As for playing in the winds I grew up in an area that had like 3 cities on the top 10 windiest cities in America. In college we had a 100 mph wind sheer read during a particularly nasty day.
To put in perspective for you as a European. Large parts of the United States and most of Canada sits the same general latitude as Russia. So places away from the more mild coastlines will get Russia levels of cold and snow. It’s why so many Scandinavian immigrants ended up in places like Wisconsin and Minnesota. It feels like home.
The tarp goes over the infield only, because much of the infield is dirt. The rain turns the dirt to mud and the ball becomes so slippery it could be very dangerous.
Baseball season starts in late March/early april and goes till November. some of the cities of those cities(Boston, Detroit, Denver, Chicago, Toronto and even New York) can get snow storms as late as mid May and as Early as Middle of October. Places like Kansas City can get tornados. Washington D.C. boston, miami , Tampa and New York city can get impressively humid and get hit by Hurricanes(huge tropical rainstorms with 70+ mph winds gusts from the end of July to November). When Hurricane Sandy hit 2012 it was followed by a snowstorm seven days later.
Most rain delays are resumed the same day, but a few times a year they are played or finished on another day. That can lead to a Double Header where the teams play two games in a row on the same day. The tarps are used to cover the infield only, mostly for the dirt areas
Green Bay Packers vs Dallas Cowboys, NFL Championship December 31st, 1967 in Green Bay Wisconsin. Game time temperature was -14 Fahrenheit. -40 Wind chill. Still to this day the coldest game ever played. And half of Wisconsin people my age and older claimed to have been there. It was sold out, by the way. Look up the Ice Bowl on RU-vid.
Watching this gives me some insight into why we've done so badly with the COV 19 pandemic. This attitude of keeping on and playing through it, hasn't worked so well with an infectious disease. I understanding. I grew up in extreme weather, and even in high school and college watch games in rain and snow. Yet . . . .
Protip if you haven't noticed; look at the scoreboard after every pitch, it flashes the MPH/pitch speed after every pitch , if you're ever curious! Keep up the good content mate
Mate, they usually don’t play if it’s raining. Some of the clips in this where they’re playing in the rain are out of the norm, and that’s probably why they were included in this compilation. Because it’s crazy!
The stuff in the bags is called Diamond Dry or Turface or some other brand name, which contains a mixture of sand,clay and and ground up corn cobs depending on the intended usage.For for really wet conditions just ground up corn cobs is used.
Some interesting things about weather in baseball... The game is suspended and played at a later date if the game does not get past halfway (5th inning). If it gets past the 5th, the game is declared over and whoever is leading is the winner. Most of the time, the umpires (referees) will delay the game until the weather passes and resume after an hour or two. In certain scenarios though, the game cannot be resumed based on either the severity of the weather and field conditions or the duration of the weather delay. The players that are mesmerized by snow and hail are primarily players that were born in the Caribbean. These Hispanic players grew up in hot climates and most of the had never seen snow before until they got to the US to play baseball.
Lightning or tornadoes is about all that will stop football games. I've played in snow, sleat, rain, and fog. One game there was three inches of freezing cold water in the middle of the field. It was the closest i've ever come to drowning when I ended up at the bottom of the pile while going after a fumble. The fact that i was laying on the ball is the only thing that kept my face out of the water.
Those bags are called "Diamond Dry". It helps dry the dirt infield. Once the diamond dry reaches saturation, it's scooped up because the diamond dry has a different consistency than the dirt
I went to a Yankee game once, got to the stadium before 12, rain was coming down so we had a 3+ hour rain delay, game was scheduled to start at 1:05 PM, didn't begin until 4:20 PM, game didn't finish until almost 8:30 PM. That's baseball for you. Oh yeah and for the record, that was just this past season.
I know you don’t have a question but at 8:17, the rosin bag is a mesh bag with a substance that lets the pitcher grip the ball more. It prevents water from soaking in their hands
They typically will stop games due to lightning not the actual rain unless really heavy. If the game is paused they may a couple hours depending on weather forecast, if 5 innings are complete then they will call the game over. If under 5 innings they may continue the game the next day if teams are scheduled to already play each other. Sometimes games get rescheduled months later due to scheduling conflicts.
Tarp covers the "infield" or "the diamond" to stop it from becoming muddy. (the clay area "not sodded" area) Most games, if not resumed after delay, are restarted at the same spot/inning the next time those teams meet, then after the resumed game is finished, the next game is played, its a shortened ""double-header" which is when the teams schedules two games on same day. (afternoon & evening typically.).
St. Louis is next to 4 rivers so our city has the craziest weather... its gone from 80 to below freezing in 10 hours... its gotta be hell to delay a game here
What's usually in the bags are dry sand. Usually the reason the tarp is out on is for "rain delay" it's only for the infeild. If the weather report didn't show the rain, snow, or hail let up for a bit, it'll be a delay.
FOr rain delays, it sometimes depends. If the rain lasts longer than 2-3 hours, they cancel the game, and play the same game from the same score at a different point in the season. They will keep the score of the game and reschedule the game.
That brown dirt-like stuff they are putting on the field is called Diamond Dry. Its very similar to cat litter, its meant to soak up the moisture and make the field a bit more playable in the rain.
The tarp covers "the infield" to keep the dirt dryer . Its complicated as to when a game can be called complete if they stop before the end of the 9th inning... but a delay - the game will start either later that day when the weather gets better - or the next day - or sometimes the next time the two teams meet.
They cover the dirt portions with the tarp to prevent the water from pooling on the dirt and turning into mud. The newer ballparks(built after 1990) all have state of the art drainage systems where they can actually pump the water out from under the field so they can take enormous amounts of water and be well drained 20-30 minutes after the rain stops.Then the will remove the tarp throw down some drying agent(Diamond Dry) and be ready to play 40 minutes after the rain stops.
Being from Denver, playing or watching sports in weather is normal. Weather games are so much more fun as a fan and a player. Only true fans stay when it’s snowing or hailing or delayed 4+ hours
Yo! I was at that windy game with the tarp flying around and like eating that guy lmao they game got canceled and we all got vouchers for tickets for another game and a free shirt, well, I went back and the shirt they gave us said “I survived the Tarp Monster” with a big picture of the tarp with eyes and shit lmaoo 😂 it was awesome
Since most professional baseball games are nine innings long, the fifth inning is used as the threshold for an official game. If the visiting team is leading, or the game is tied, the end of the fifth inning marks this point. If the home team (which bats last) is already ahead in the score, and theoretically would not need its half of the fifth inning, then 4½ innings (i.e., the middle of the fifth) is considered an official game. The game is also considered official if the home team scores to take the lead in the bottom of the fifth inning, since the game would end immediately if the same thing happened in the ninth. Games that are stopped due to power outages are treated as suspended and cannot be declared official.
Those bags that they are dumping on the field are commonly called Quick Dry. Well, I think Quick Dry is actually a brand name, but the premise is the same. They are dumping it on the field in order to try and soak up some of the moisture so that the dirt doesn't turn into mud.
In baseball they generally don't play if it's raining or snowing. If it happens to start raining or snowing during a game, they'll play through it a little bit unless it gets too bad, then they'll delay the game until it stops.
The bags they are emptying onto the field are Quick-Dry. The material they are spreading is meant to absorb the water from the infield dirt to make the field playable again.
I went to a high school football game. They kept the game going into the 4th quarter and finally delayed the game when the county got put into a tornado warning. Fortunately there was no tornado. Just rotation in the atmosphere. 20 minutes later, game continued. Welcome to Mississippi!
Most of these clips are not of actual game play. If there is a weather delay, they still check in at the stadium on the broadcast even if they aren’t actually playing. They tend to put on reruns of some show to fill the time until the game starts again. But they check in every now and then just to update viewers.
I am from San Francisco, and in high school I remember playing game where we got fogged out, and had to end the game early. Our stadium was on a cliff just off the coast where all the fog comes in and it was super thick. I played right field and it was so thick that I couldn't see in the infield.
Baseball is steeped in tradition, you should react to mlb pranks. Some of those pranks are from the early days of ball but are still around today. Also there are some hilarious baseball rain delay moments if you look up baseball rain delay fun
I was hit by a small twister in Palm Springs California while watching the Angels during their spring training. It knocked my about 20 feet from where I was originally standing. People think California does not have tornadoes. We do.
We play football (soccer) in Snow too. Minnesota United's MLS home opener was 20 degrees F and 3 inches of snow. Had to use a orange ball to be able to see it.
Baseball is known as a "gentleman's sport" meaning there's lots of regulations to keep the game high class or clean - not sure the best way to describe it but there's lots of weird unwritten rules in baseball. For weather, you really should call the game or delay the game even if it's just drizzling. Sometimes they don't but that's just always been baseball thing. For delays, the rule is that you wait until it's good to play again. Some delays can be 2-4 hours. If the weather is really really bad like a tornado or the radar looks like it may rain all day/night, they'll end the game or postpone it for another day or play a double-header (two games in 1 day) if it's part of a series with the same team.
I live in Royals land; Kansas City, MO. There's even been stops because of threats of extreme weather conditions like tornado threats, and usually you get hail before severe weather like that.
