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FUN FACT: The term “I’m in a pickle” or “being in a pickle” originates from the baseball pickle, meaning that you’re in a situation you very much don’t want to be in!
baseball gloves are not like a hockey stick, you don't just grab another one. A glove is worn into a player's hand over time, and they can last full careers. If something does happen to a glove they don't just get new ones, they have them repaired.
Came here to say the same thing when he mentioned just picking up a new one. I've had my glove for 20+ years. I love my glove. There is no way I'm breaking in a new glove unless I absolutely had to.
Hockey sticks are not interchangeable 🤦🏻♂️ there's a huge variation of flex and blade curve. That's why you see forty to fifty of them just behind the bench on the pathway in and easily another hundred in the locker room. Stick lengths are custom cuts, flex is specific to the player, same with curve.
15:59 If the ball would have stayed to the left of the base line, it would be a foul ball. It had to stay foul until it either stops or passes third base. It ruled back into the field of play so it was in play
I was going to mention that it relies on the 1st base/3rd base. It the ball that lands into foul territory crosses the baseline before those two bases, it goes back into play. If it is after those bases, it remains foul.
Bats have a “sweet spot” - the most ideal spot to hit the ball. Anywhere off that is going to cause a bend. Do it enough or close enough to the handle and it will break. Old school bats were made out of hickory and wouldn’t break but they were heavy. Now everyone uses ash or maple wood which is a lighter but weaker wood.
@Scott Berg thats the first thought i had when he was asking why the bats break. With Rivera wasnt it basically just his spin rate that just shredded the bat on contact or something? Or just the direction of the spin combined with his insane 95mph cutter?
I've been binge watching your videos and I love how open minded you are about American sports and how you understand how passionate we are about them! Keep up the great work!
It's hard when you are reacting because you have to say the first thing that comes to mind. That's what makes his videos great is because they aren't preformulated or fake. And he has made some other connections faster than I would expect.
Of all the sports, baseball has the most opportunities for odd moments. It had a weird field/pitch, strange rules, unspoken rules, multiple ways to score, lots of positions and personalities. Its a sport where you don't even have to watch the game to enjoy it. It can just play in the background of a radio or in the words of a newspaper. Did I mention I love baseball, cause I do!
Man, i really like you channel. I don't like a lot of reaction channels, but i love how open you are to other sports. So many people get defensive over their favorite sport and say, "oh this is so much better than this." or "your favorite sport sucks." I love how genuinely interested you are in sports you previously had no idea about. I'm a big sports fan period, i love football(american), baseball, basketball, hockey, racing( mainly NASCAR, but i really enjoy F1, INDYCAR, and some IMSA as well), it's refreshing to see.
A tip for future reactions: Please watch the entire clip before pausing and rewinding. A lot of your questions can (and will) be answered if you just let the clip play for another couple seconds.
16:20 The white lines (running out from home plate to the yellow foul poles) are called "foul lines" - if the ball rolls/is hit outside of these lines or poles, they are considered to be a "foul ball" aka out of play (unless they are caught in the air, before the ball touches the ground), so in this scene the Catcher is waiting until the ball rolls from outside to inside the foul lines - then it becomes a fair ball to play and tag the batter out.
just found all of these videos loving the interest from over seas i love soccer and a lot of american sports baseball included and just so nice to see people show an interest in one of my favorite sports, thanks for the videos man!
Venditte was the first ever "switch pitcher" - throwing right-handed to some batters and left-handed to others. It's never happened before in well over a century of baseball
For the ambidextrous pitcher part, in baseball, it is common (5-10%) of batters are “switch hitters”. These batters are equally good at batting from both sides, righty and lefty. Generally, it is advantageous for the batter to bat on the opposite side as a pitcher, meaning that if the pitcher is left-handed, the switch hitter will bat from the right side. This skill is considered impressive, but not out of the ordinary. The oddity with Pat Venditte (the pitcher) is that he is equally good at pitching with both hands, and he’s the first one in the history of the league. So when he sees a right handed batter up, he uses this right hand to gain an advantage. The rule is for when a switch batter faces a switch pitcher, where in theory, the batter and pitcher would switch endlessly to gain the advantage. This actually happened in a minor league game, but not the MLB, when Venditte was pitching. It basically states the pitcher must declare his side first.
The switch handed pitcher rule was made for that player in the last clip of the video he is well known for throwing both his left and right hand which is very rare in MLB nowadays it’s also known as Pat Venditte rule
@@GreebleClown This, you nailed it. The rules couldn't stop a batter from taking a second to adjust in the box and they could switch sides of the plate. Likewise, the pitcher could adjust stance and read catchers instructions and switch throwing arms creating a complete deadlock in the game till they made up a rule. Once a game has been played 7 or 800 million times for money, people get great at it and test the rules.
Really like that you show major league baseball. Very fun game to play. It can sometimes get a bit long when you watch it but that is what highlights are for !
"Stealing first" In baseball's earlier decades, a runner on second base could "steal" first base, perhaps with the intention of drawing a throw that might allow a runner on third to score (a tactic famously employed by Germany Schaefer). However, such a tactic was not recorded as a stolen base.
The guy who throws with 2 different hands, he is the only person to ever do that!!!! Nobody has the skill to be able to throw that accurately with both hands, if you didnt see, that rule you were reading, was literally called the Venditte rule, after the guy they were showing in the video
The San Antonio Spurs Tribute - The Beautiful Game. The title says it all, The Spurs have been one of the most consistent winning teams of the last couple decades (minus the last few years lol). This team faced a lot of tough teams and a lot of legendary players in their prime. In 2014 they got themselves all the way to the finals for the second straight year except this year they were unstoppable. This teams offense was legendary, every man on this roster was extremely well coached and moved the ball really well. It didnt matter how fast you were, you cant outrun a pass. So everyone passed, and passed, and passed some more until they found an open shot. I dont think we will see an NBA roster this well coached and locked in for a long time. Theres a part 1 and a part 2 Playoff Finals version I really think you should check one of them out. You wont regret it.
at 15:56, the ball isnt called fair or foul till it goes past the base, or touched or stops moving. so while it was rolling in foul territory it was coming back fair, so the catcher let it roll and come back fair to tag out the batter/runner.
For the clip at 16:00 : The ball has to touch inside the lines along first and third to be counted fair, even if it bounces inside the line then goes out, that’s fair. But if the ball is hit and lands inside the line, then goes outside the line before passing first or third base, it’s a foul. So because the ball bounced inside the “fair side” along the third base line, the catcher waited to see if it would roll back into fair territory before touching it which lets him use it as a live ball to tag out the runner.
Bats break more easily on fast pitches and hard swings, and wear and tear causes bats to break more easily. However, in most cases a bat will not break unless you hit it off of the handle or the end of the bat.
Okay, so on the play with the catcher who waited for the ball to come back into fair territory, a ground ball is not considered fair or foul until one of the following: 1)it goes past 3rd base (at which point if it's fair as it does so, it's a fair ball, if not it's a foul ball), 2) it stops rolling before it reaches 3rd base, at which point it's fair or foul based on where it stops 3) it's touched by a player. In this case, the catcher saw the ball START in foul ground, but then followed it as it rolled until it went into fair territory, then picked it up and tagged the runner out because the runner never ran to 1b. This is why you ALWAYS run the ball out!!!
17:48, what is an oddity about this, Pat Venditte is the only pitcher in major league history who pitched with both hands. He can pitch left handed or right handed. They had to make a rule just for him. When he was in the minor leagues there was a 10-15 minute delay the first time he faced a switch hitter.
I’ll explain the play at 1:43, since it’s a convoluted play that even most baseball fans and players did not understood at the time. The runner at second (Segura) successfully made it out of the pickle and back to second base. However, the runner at first (Braun) advanced to second thinking Segura would be tagged out. As a result, they were on the same base. In the event that two runners are on the same base or one passes another, the trail runner is always at fault. So when the infielder tagged them both, Braun was out. Segura should have waited for a ruling from the umpire, but instead assumed that he was out. There is technically no rule disallowing a runner from advancing backward, so he was allowed to remain on first.
So that last part was dealing with a "switch pitcher". Normally you have switch hitters who are able to bat from both sides of the plate, but switch pitchers are incredibly rare.
At 19:45 You will notice the rule is called the Vendetti rule and the pitcher's name is Vendetti. That is not a coincidence. That pitcher is the only person to pitch ambidextrously that the game has even seen. There have been a lot of ambidextrous hitters (switch hitters) in the game, but no one has ever been an ambidextrous pitcher (switch pitcher) until Vendetti came along. The rule was instituted when Vendetti was in the minor leagues (feeder leagues for the MLB) and he was pitching to a switch hitter. The batter would line up as if he were hitting with one hand and Vendetti would then line up as if he were pitching with one hand, then the batter would switch sides before Vendetti would throw and then Vendetti would switch which hand he would throw. This continued for like 10 minutes without a single pitch being thrown, the batter and the pitcher playing this weird king of the hill game. Finally, the umpire had had enough and made the two make a decision and stick with it. There was no rule in the game prior to that, so the umpire kind of made up a rule on the spot. Of course, right after that game, MLB drafted the official rule, named after that pitcher, that said the pitcher must first declare which hand he will use and then the batter can chose which side he will bat from. It's a pretty funny story.
In general you can't go backward. But the phrasing of the rule allowes for a few exceptions. When the 2 players were at second, the guy that was originally at first was tagged out. But the guy originally at second thought he was out and started walking back toward the dugout. He realized he had been safe and stood on first. Because of the odd nature of the play he was able to (accidentally) exploit a loophole. This has only happened a handful of times since the 1880s in professional baseball.
I've had the pleasure of getting coached by Marlon Byrd, the Phillie who snapped his bat with a swing @10:37, and he's always told me nothing was wrong with the bat. it was just one of those freaky things that happens when someone is incredibly strong
2:04 the announcer says "he's going to be _picked off_ " which is a strategy pitchers use to A, force base runners to stay close to the bag, making the distance between the runner and the next base further, B, Force an out. Incidentally, although base runners will lead off (take a few extra steps towards the next base) so they have a better chance to steal, it can also be a strategy to get the pitcher off their rhythm by putting pressure on them, resulting in a bad pitch, or an error in a pick off attempt. however, when a base runner is stuck between two bases, they are indeed, in a pickle.
Baseball players would never just replace their glove like that (the clip where it went over the wall). I've heard from professionals that they usually only have one or two gloves in rotation. One is their game glove, it's broken in nice, feels like an extension of your hand. If you feel like your game glove is going to need replacing within the next 6 months, then you start breaking in a new glove during practice. The glove is so important to some of the insane feats that Baseball players accomplish, they would never go with something untested, mid-game.
for the one at 16:14, the rule is that the ball is foul if its on the outside of the white line when it passes the base.. so technically even if the ball goes foul, if it comes back into fair territory before it crosses the base then its a fair ball. normally that shouldn't be possible but in this case the ball took some weird bounces off some pebbles or pieces of dirt and came back fair so the catcher played it.
Pickle is actually known as a run down. The term pickle is the name of the game kids play that is basically a run down game. If not enough kids to play ball you can play pickle so rundowns are sometimes called playing pickle
prior to reaching either third or first base, any ball hit foul that returns to the playing field is a fair ball, which is why Swisher was tagged out...
That Segura play is one of the oddest plays allowed in baseball. Very nuanced. That was not only the same game, it was the same series of play. Look into Little League. They mention it during that Dexter Fowler glove over the wall play. Broken bats are quite common. Sometimes it's merely the strength of the batter that snaps bats. The catcher equipment has been called 'the tools of ignorance' for 100 years. Look that one up. You saw sparks on that play. On the line is fair play. The balk, always by a pitcher, is one of the hardest things to understand about baseball. That's a special glove worn by Venditte so he can pitch with either arm. That is extremely rare in baseball. Baseball can be so unusual some times.
17:49 the reason this is an oddity is because that guy is the first and only switch (ambidextrous) pitcher in Major League history. There are lots of switch hitters, but there's never been a switch pitcher. They had to create a special glove for him with a right and left thumb. This is a huge advantage because in baseball a right handed pitcher is more effective against a right hand batter, and a lefty pitcher is more effective against a left hand hitter. The reason is that off speed pitches from RH pitchers move away from RH hitters, and same with lefty pitchers-hitters, while those same pitches move towards a hitter who bats opposite making them easier to hit. A lot of times if a right handed pitcher is starting the opposing manager will load his lineup with LH hitters, and vice versa. This is one reason managers will often replace hitters, or pitchers in clutch situations, depending on the L-R matchup. You always want your hitter to be opposite(R-L, L-R) of the pitcher, and your pitcher to the same as the hitter(R-R H-H). So an ambidextrous pitcher will always have a slight advantage over whoever's hitting. Like I said this guy was the first switch pitcher in MLB history.
So many things to help you with here!! The ball into the mask is a catch. The pieces that came off the other mask was a visor (like sunglasses), the Uniforms that you didn’t know what was happening - a player on one team was wearing a different jersey than the rest of the team, that last one - the pitcher was ambidextrous and pitched lefty to one batter and then righty to the next
The last one was of Pat Venditte. They had to make up a rule just for him because he's the first and thus far only pitcher to pitch with either right or left hand. There was a sequence in the Minor leagues where he and a switch hitter kept switching sides for several minutes until the umpires had enough of it and forced him to pick a hand. The rule came in shortly after.
Fans won't get to keep a glove unless a player gifts it. MLB teir gloves cost probably around $400, at least. Plus pro gloves take a lotta work to break in. Players usually use a glove at least for 1 season. And they only have a backup in case their main glove unexpectedly breaks for a game/ becomes unrepairable. Fans can keep balls hit/ thrown into stands.
16:59 "A balk will be called when a pitcher who is on the rubber makes any motion naturally associated with his pitching delivery and does not actually deliver the ball, feigns a throw to first or third base and fails to complete the throw, or fails to step directly toward a base before throwing to that base. Once a pitcher has swung his free leg back past the pitching rubber while in the process of his leg kick, he must then deliver the ball to the plate or to second base on a pick-off attempt."
The last clip was of the first ambidextrous pitcher in the MLB. He can pitch with either his left or right hand. In baseball, in general, Right handed batters hit better against left handers "lefties" and left handed hitters hit better against right handers "righties". So then brings in switch hitters, who can bat from either side of the plate. They will bat according to what the pitcher is, a righty or lefty. If the pitcher is a lefty the switch hitter will probably bat right handed and vice versa. So then enters the switch handed pitcher. They will throw left handed to lefties and right handed to righties until they encounter a switch hitter.. That's why that rule was shown. The pitcher has to choose which hand he is going to pitch with first and the switch hitter will then go he opposite. There was one situation when the pitcher and hitter were just switching sides over and over so they were in a standoff.. Also why the rule now exists. Hopefully that made sense and was clear enough.
Wait! What? I have been following Baseball for 20 years and I never knew it was called a pickle. Wow. You learn something new about this game every day lol.
At 15:57 the foul ball that rolled fair. The way foul balls work in baseball is; -If the ball touches the ground inside the white lines anywhere on the field, it's fair. -If the ball touches the ground outside the white line and stays outside the white line anywhere on the field, then it's foul. -If the ball touches the ground outside the white line but further than where the bases are (the outfield) and roles into fair territory, it's still a foul ball. -If the ball lands outside the white line before it gets past the bases (the infield) and roles fair after it passes the bases (the outfield), then it's a foul ball. -If the ball touches the ground outside the white line, but before the ball goes past the bases (the infield), but roles back into fair territory before it passes the bases (still the infield), it's fair. The last one is what you saw and it rarely happens.
16:10 the ball is considered “fair” if it’s hit in the field between the white lines between third and first base, and foul if it lands outside that area. A ball can change between fair and foul if it’s hit softly, and trickles along the chalk line. Once a ball goes past first or third base, the first touch is the ruling on the ball. Hope this helps, love the videos!
A bat breaks down over time and can generate a few cracks or chips that eventually split along a seam in the grain. Occasionally a crack starts on a seam and the bat splits quickly. Different wood breaks differently, some popular bats break off into large chunks, some into small pieces. If a bat breaks off at the handle, it's usually from a "jam shot", which is when a pitcher throws it inside and the batter swings as the ball hits the skinny part of the bat. Pitch speed and off-the-bat speed vary depending on the pitcher, pitch velocity, pitch location, batter, and batter timing, with the average pitch speed being 91 mph and the average off-the-bat speed being 103 mph.
Last clip, the pitcher was ambidextrous, which is something that is extremely rare in baseball. Plenty of batters can hit from both sides, but seeing a pitcher throw with both arms is almost never seen
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It’s a little bit of both on the breaking bat part can be from a high velocity pitch or from a high velocity swing or just a bat that’s been used a ton.
15:00 If the batter swings and foul tips the ball, it's a strike. But a foul tip can't be strike 3 unless the catcher, catches the ball. Otherwise, you can foul tip the ball all you want.
The factors influencing the length of a hit are the energy of the pitch, the energy of the bat, but also the position on the bat that strikes the ball. Energy transfer from the bat to the ball will be most efficient at a particular distance along the bat.
ambidextrous pitchers, or switch pitchers are a rarity. I think Pat Venditte is the first switch pitchers in 50-60 years in the MLB. I could be very much wrong.
To answer your question about the play at about 16:13: The ball off the bat rolled into fowl territory, but it rolled back into fair territory. The batter didn't run, because he thought the ball was fowl. So when it rolled fair, the the catcher scooped it up and ran over to tag out the batter.
Its both the speed of the pitch and the power the batter imparts to the ball, the Baseball is maded of layers of wool twines wrapped tightly, with a leather cover that is sown into the ball a baseball will retain most of the energy it has when it hits a hard surface, so the Pitcher and Batter's energy is added when the ball is hit.
17:00 the player on the left was wearing a different uniform than the rest of the team, probably due to a malfunction with the correct jersey, or just forgot to put the right one on
A ball is neither fair (in play) or foul (out of play) until either a player touches the ball or it passes first or third base. If it's touched if fair territory it's a fair ball. If it passes first or third in fair territory it's a fair ball and vice versa. Lesson is to always run out your hits.
About the pickle play, a base runner cannot pass the runner ahead of you or you are called out, the lead runner returned to 2nd base, and both were tagged while safely standing on the base. The second runner passed the lead runner, ( or actually in this case, the lead runner backed up beyond the second) causing the second runner to be called out. The lead runner( pickle guy) was never tagged off the base, therefore he is still in play. You can retreat to a previous base as long as you touch each base in reverse order.
A little late, love your vids. In baseball, there can’t be two players on a base at the same time. I was taught to only run halfway between bases when I was learning so that you can make the call to stay or advance. The players who end up ‘in a pickle’ have to return to the base they were occupying or they’ll get tagged out.
Its a mix of power and the movement of the pitch that leads to most broken bats. The pitch most likely to break a bat is the cutting fastball. The late break on this pitch increases the chances of it hitting the thin part of the bat while moving faster than a true breaking ball. Thus, it destroys more bats than any other pitch. Miriano "Sandman" Rivera was notorious for breaking opposing hitters bats with cutters.
The thing with the ball on the line-- if it's on the outside of the line, it's a foul ball and counts a strike. If it's inside the line, then it's playable and he can either run to first (if he's paying attention) or get tagged out (if he's not, which is what happened).
I'm kind of surprised this MLB Oddities video didn't have the clip of the pitcher hitting a bird that flew between him and the batter. That was pretty spectacular.
The bat can break strictly from the speeds involved (the pitched ball; the bat speed; the force of the two colliding); sometimes just where on the bat the ball hits (e.g. “on the fists” when a ball breaks in, hitting the narrowest/weakest part of the bat); sometimes maybe from a flaw in the wood itself or if it was previously cracked. The speed of the swing - even a check swing as in the instance shown - can break it then.
Explaining the ambidextrous pitcher. In baseball it is an advantage for a pitcher if they are pitching to a player who has the same handedness as the batter. Therefore in general left handed pitchers do well against other lefties and vice versa. Vanditte was a young pitcher who hit on the idea of pitching with both hands, left handed against lefties and right handed against righties. This was fine until Vanditte came up against what’s called a switch hitter, which is to say a hitter who can hit from both sides. By all accounts there was a comical merry go round as the pitcher would switch and then the batter would do likewise going back and forth. The umpires had to step in to make a ruling. Later that week MLB issued the clarification that they read out in that clip. Basically it says the pitcher has to choose which hand to throw with and then the batter can choose which side to hit from. It became known as the Venditte rule.
10:23 here in the US there are a few indoor stadiums for baseball and football depending on the city. But right here with Cleveland Indians before they changed it to Guardians I still hate it but, with the game against Tampa Bay Rays. That team is one of them that has an indoor stadium. Sometimes the balls are hit towards the lights breaking them and the other times are towards the ceiling stands that keeps the roof of the stadium connected. This was years ago that this happened.
16:00 the white lines mark fair & foul territory (basically boundary lines for the ball) and in this case, the catcher was waiting for the ball to roll back into fair territory so he could then get the batter out. If the ball is in fair territory before passing 1st base, or 3rd base, it is a live ball and is played. If it goes foul before passing the base, it is just a foul ball
Luka, if the ball hasn't rolled beyond the base down either foul line, the ball can still roll back fair. Peña smartly waited for the ball to roll back onto the foul line, which then made the ball playable. The same clip was used in "knowing the rules" compilations.
Usually when a bat breaks, it's when the ball hits down near the handle of the bat. And the pitcher who had the sprinklers go off on him was Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez. I was at that game :D
In minute 16, the batter hit a slow roller down the line. It appeared to be a foul ball and so the batter did not run towards first base. The ball rolled into fair territory (as soon as it hit the chalk line) and the catcher fielded the ball and tagged the batter out. Bad base running on the batter's part. Coaches always tell player to "leg it out" but he failed to do so.
The white lines are called "foul" lines. If you hit the ball and it lands outside the line, it either counts as a strike (if you don't already have two) or you get another pitch. The thing is, if the ball rolls back over the line on the inside of the bases (the "infield"), it is again considered fair, and that play continues. That guy thought he hit it foul, so he didn't run. When it rolled fair, the catcher picked it up and ran it to the batter to tag him out.
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16:18 so the white line is the foul ball line and if the balls gets touched on the left side it’s dead and it just counts as a strike but if it’s to the right it’s a hit and the runners have to run So on that play everyone thought it was foul so nobody ran but the catcher let it roll fair so he could pick it up and tag the runner
At 3:01 the lead runner is always safe when there are two runners. The second runner was tagged out even if he is on the base. Since the lead runner was on the base when he was tagged he was safe and got all the way back to first without being tagged.
