How One Swing Cost $1 Million 

absolutely insane

as a yankee fan, i agree with him :)

@@ulceratedpiss scored, not hit

@@ulceratedpiss you’re thinking of 1997, this was 2001

@@ulceratedpiss Craig Counsell was hit by a pitch before Luis Gonzalez came to bat, so he was on first when the winning hit happened. Jay Bell was at third and scored the winning run. Counsell did score the winning run on the 1997 World Series for the Marlins on an Edgar Renteria single.

Lol,Jay Bell scored the game winning run in the 9th inning of game 7 in the World Series to beat the Yankees in 2001.

​@@riltalk4055 And yet still ranks this moment above that as his favorite in his career.

It’s not even once in a lifetime, it’s once in 1,000 lifetimes to get one moment like that, all or nothing

It’s called we’re finally landing

High outside pitches were his wheelhouse somehow

You're apple?

@@rdk2323yes, please send him your credit card info ASAP

were all apple@@rdk2323

I'm feeling the same. I was 12. But the news wasn't as available at that time.

Appreciate that thank you

Big fan of him if you can’t tell

Fun fact: Jim Palmer never gave up a grand slam or back to back homeruns in his 19 seaon MLB career.

Go Birds.

Jay Bell's OPS was fifty points higher that year.

@connormartin1618 that's only because of the position he played. Isolate just offensive and Willaims had a better year.

@@jamesgilmore69 OPS is completely independent of position. Bell had a higher on base percentage, higher slugging, and more home runs.

@@connormartin1618 far enough. I'm more old school with the numbers and value RBIs.

@connormartin1618 judging by the amount of runs scored by Bell that year did he bat before Williams. Maybe it's a Maris/Mantle situation where they pitched to Bell bc Williams was behind him?

I as a Chinese Shephard who lives in Himalayas know about it

@avgGamer662 only someone on a mountain would pay attention to the rockies.

Those uniforms are so sick

he just started swinging more! he had a lot of lineup protection and pitchers found themselves needing to throw strikes to the dude because they didn't want to face Matt Williams, Luis Gonzalez, or Steve Finley, all of whom were known quantities of being a good hitter and appeared after him in the batting order for the most part. He hit 24 of his 38 home runs before the All-Star game, with the shot in this video being the final one before the break. He didn't really decline so much in the second half so much as he did adjust to what was given to him. He had the exact same OPS in the first half as he did in the second half, but hit 10 more homers before the ASG. The more you know!

@@grantreill1966 oh yeah that lineup was stacked with guys that could hurt you in multiple ways.

Exactly like the one with the Bulls..

@@Bigedub101 lol. That’s the first example that came to my mind too.

It's a crazy fact since there has not been very many hitters with glasses. Bonds and Gwynn were said to have 20/10 vision, I've always assumed most elite hitters had better than average eye sight.