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Lol and he has takes his mask off to see where the hell the guy went.

Muscle memory

Glad mlb players care about your honesty

Likewise dude!, You shouldn't be able to do that with your non-prefered hand. I look like an autistic girl when I try to throw something hard with my left hand.

I have to throw side arm if I’m gonna throw something accurate with my right hand (imma lefty)

I can't even piss left handed, he threw a bullet with his off hand

Vince might not be the greatest pitcher but god damn if he isn’t an amazing athlete.

I watch like 10 of these kinds of videos a day

Depending on what state it’s not quarantine

bruh i’m dead

me too

The same guy also fell off the mound as a Phillie a few minutes later

@Cayden Deerman Bo Jackson, KC Royals AND the NFL Raiders

That last pitch was so sick!!! Why is no one talking about that?!

Copy and paste

I was wondering why he was out. Thank you for the explanation.

Sgv_Sth Anything would have been better than that XD That play was just disappointing

Yeah that was really bad.

He did do a little fake towards second but not enough to warrant intent

I think any intent is intent, makes it so it's not a judgement call. But I feel it needs to be made in fair territory

That's a textbook correct call. even twitching your shoulders towards 2nd is enough. Like a balk, its a technical call and it was correct.

I agree. I was always under the impression that if you turned toward your left (i.e. toward 2nd) even if you went back to 1st base, then that could be "intent" but in this case the runner turned to his right (toward the stands) which to me showed no "intent" of wanting to go to 2nd.

That is exactly what happened

Early: as long as the pitch is in the air it's a strike. Batters can swing as much as they like before then, you see this all the time in the warmup swings. So the answer is the second the ball leaves the pitcher's hand (assuming its a legal pitch) the swing can be called a strike. Late: This one is harder and more subjective. Basically, any legal pitch can be called a strike. So a mere swing wouldn't be a strike if the umpire ruled he wasn't actually trying to strike at the ball. In practice if the pitch is far enough away for it to be considered as having gotten away from the catcher, then that's too late. So the answer is basically when the batter reasonably couldn't have a chance to hit the ball then its not a strike.

He went info fair territory

He shouldn’t be out at all the umps just dumb, he didn’t make any intention to go to second

firebirdude2, There was no reason to call time, the ball should have stayed live and the run should have scored

Yes, it went to New York and they ruled the run scored. This was one of the most intense innings of baseball I've seen capped off with Bautista's home run and bat flip. 7th Innings Game 5 of the 2015 ALDS.

That didn’t matter because Jose Bautista made a meme

That’s why it’s an oddity

4:01

Batter has the right to swing at the ball - and yes, that was intended to interfere with the throw (and succeeded).

Nope, live ball.

Sometimes 1st baseman are told to play behind the runner, and this pitcher must have forgotten where belt was playing. It’s not his fault

The coach may have told him to play behind the bag, but the first baseman still has to communicate to the pitcher where he’s at. So Belt should’ve reminded him.

Coach was signaling the runner to slide but it seems he interpreted it as stop ✋

Anthony Tucker Valdes thank you

Nobody

Im watching this and thinking what the hell is baseball.

Doesn't matter. He took one step with intent, then tried to play it cool.

@@lo1bo2 oh.. i thought the line was rule . thanks

@@lo1bo2 that's nitpicking. I can't believe they actually thought that was intent.

@@lo1bo2 He turned to see, but didnt go...not sure how thats intent...bad call

@@bwin2992 Same, I don't know about hardball. But if you turn the left and away from second, usually it means you aren't going to attempt to go further. He was walking straight to 1st after they threw foul

The announcer is wrong. I believe he missed first base.

I believe he has to old Orioles manager talked about it in studio 42

PapaWMM yes