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And the broadcasters got the name wrong. The pitcher wasn’t Phil Niekro, but his brother Joe Niekro. Both used the knuckle ball, though Phil had a much better one.
Lol he threw the stuff on the ground as a diversion, watch his left hand and you can see him pull something from his back pocket and try to slip it to the teammate on his left.
I’m a Royals fan and that George Brett moment was the most funniest thing ever in history 🤣 he ran out there faster then the speed of light. A moment we will never forget 😂
I honestly wouldn’t call that cheating. A lot of bats were like that. The team waited until he’d hit off them and then called it. That’s why now the bay is thrown out of the game not the player.
@@lscales6131 Apparently the President of the American League overruled the umpires after the fact because Pine tare (Which was the bat to help the batters grip) did not help the ball fly out. So, the game was restarted some time later in the ninth and the Royals ended up winning the game.
One funny thing about the Pine Tar Incident was when Brett shot out like a bullet, the brothas to his left were like "Nah, man. I'm not about to get in the middle of that..."
It's actually 35 years ago when Joe Niekro got caught using an emery board. It's a classic moment in baseball history and what lead to one of the better referee stare down EVER ! Pause it at 1.42m . Tim Tschida who was only 27 years old showed why he was selected to such a young age to be part of Major League Baseball. History showed that he made the right call ! Classic .
The “Pine Tar Incident” as it has become known, should not be on this list. Pine tar, while it is supposed to be limited, does not help a bat hit a ball farther. It’s used to help a player’s grip, and if anything, pine tar is so sticky that it would hinder the effectiveness of the bat in question. The Royals protested the game, and the protest was sustained, and the two teams finished the remainder of this game, which the Royals wound up winning. The umpires actually had to use two different rules to arrive at their decision, and the rule book was updated after that season. Now, if there is too much pine tar on a bat, and the other team protests, as the Yankees did, the bat is removed from the game, with no penalty to the batter, since pine tar is not like corking a bat. George Brett got a little carried away in applying the pine tar, but he wasn’t cheating. The plate was used as a makeshift ruler. And players still legally use the pine tar. The home run counted, and there was no further sanction on Brett. Today, he would just have to fetch another bat.
@@elihernandez800 sour ass Yankees fan. Y'all have been caught cheating more than anybody. Their argument is literal BS. They were just mad he crushed that ball at such an important moment.
@gottiline I love when losers like you hate on the Yankees and make up things like “the Yankees have cheated more than anyone” when what you are really saying is “I’m salty about the Yankees winning all the time.” Royals cheated and Eli was right...rules are rules.
Ha niekro's throw was pathetic "I got nothing in my hand... no you didn't see that, what are you talking about? I didn't throw that? Me? CHEAT?!?" It's a "no way that's not mine officer, I don't have any drugs!" Kinda move lol
Niekro like a teenager trying to toss a joint away from the cops without them seeing, and that one official turning his head to track it as it hits the ground, then Niekro trying to pick it up before the official can get to it. 😄
When the dude tried to toss the file it looks like with his other hand he passed something into the glove of the team mate standing next to him. You can tell both hands are trying to find something in the back pockets. I think there may have been even more to that then it seemed. I'm surprised looking at the footage afterward no one else questioned that. The more I've watched it the more I'm convinced he got away with handing something to the other guy.
You can see the catcher walk up to him and tap him when he pulled out that card or paper the trick is to have something innocent in one pocket pull it out show it to everyone and then toss it or drop it and then your teammate picks it up off of the ground to distract everyone’s attention while you toss or drop or hand off whatever it is your hiding to the closest teammate whoever is in on it will usually step on what ever it is and twist there foot to drive it into the ground guy scratching his head to his right just so happens to look over in the nic of time his motion draws everyone else’s attention the key is the flick or toss whatever it is while you hand is still behind you back the motion of his arm and the late toss gives it away
He did hand the catcher something, you’re right. But you can see the ump in the top left see it and come over and reach for something. Then he picks something off the ground. We will never know what he handed the catcher with his left while distracting with his right. Sneaky sneaky. Good eye
Niekro also had sandpaper on his left hand. So whenever he gets a new baseball, he takes his glove off and starting rubbing against the sandpaper while everybody thinks he's trying to grip the ball better.
Every time I see Neikro fling that thing out of his pocket: it like watching a guy trying to keep the cops from finding drugs on them. " Oh that's not mine, it was on the ground already!"
So on George Brett: The Royals protested the game. ... MacPhail thus restored Brett's home run and ordered the game resumed with two outs in the top of the ninth inning with the Royals leading 5-4. Although MacPhail ruled that Brett's home run counted, he retroactively ejected Brett for his outburst against McClelland.
I don't know if it already exist but I'd like to see a museum of the caught cheat items. Corked bats, baseball scuffed, nail file, greasy gloves, all of it.
Baseball has a ton of arcane and weird rules because in the early days of the sport, the only rules were like "throw the ball, try to hit it, run the bases, score", and teams kinda made up their own rules around that. There's a rule against catchers using their face masks as secondary gloves-- if memory serves, it advances the runners, including the batter. The reason it's there is because catchers would "nudge" borderline fair pop fly balls into foul territory, or otherwise use their face masks to field the ball. Believe it or not, baseball is remarkably clean compared to its roots-- they used to play with no batting helmets and a single ball used for the entire game (unless there were home runs or foul balls into the stands), making the ball filthy, hard to track, and easy to turn into a "magic" ball-- that time was called "dirty ball". That practice ended when a batter lost his life when he didn't see a fastball flying towards his head. Today, batters get helmets and protective pads, while the ball is regularly swapped for fresh clean balls. MLB is in a "one step forward, two steps back" sort of situation. Review of umpire calls was LONG overdue, since the NHL and NFL have been doing it for decades before baseball said, "Uh, ya know, maybe the umps are human after all." But with the steroid abuse ~20 years ago, persistent bat corking, and more recently, the Astros cheating scandal and the crappy way the players union and commissioner handled it, fans aren't happy with the sport, and rightly so. What's worse is that players often don't need that "edge" to win, but by cheating, they not only ruin their careers and their fellow players' careers, every pennant they "won", every World Series ring they "won" is forever tainted with doubt. Houston had a great team in 2017, they could have beaten the Yankees and Dodgers fair and square, but they didn't (and to top it off, they have this ridiculously defensive "what's done is done, get over it," attitude which is frankly infuriating). Putting cork in a bat acts as a cushion, absorbing energy that could otherwise go into sending a ball over the left field fence.
@@MMuraseofSandvich The penalty for using the mask and making intentional contact with a live ball is a detached equipment violation and depending on if it was a thrown ball, pitched ball, or batted ball determines the number of bases awarded.
I love baseball just really started to watch it but can someone explain to me what is wrong with having pinetar on a bat if it's sticky on your hand I understand
What I don't understand is how was Niekro supposed to have been able to "doctor" the ball with something that was in his back pocket? The moment he takes that out of his back pocket, it would have been easy to spot.
with the George Brett incident I have always thought the commentators were a little dumb when they couldn't figure out why Tim McClelland would measure a bat using home plate
I don't consider the George Brett thing to be cheating. It wasn't a legal bat because there was pine tar too far up the handle, but it didn't grant him an advantage. The umpire's call was correct - he is out, runners are returned to the bases they occupied at the time of the pitch (assuming that he wasn't the third out). I'm not sure about then, but today if a similar situation were to arise, so long as the pine tar is removed past 18" from the end of the bat, then it becomes a legal bat and can be used in a subsequent at-bat.
He had pine tar 24 inches up the bat there's no excuse for that....the only reason why they let it ride because he was one the big names in baseball at that time
#1. Houston Astros’ garbage-bin signals to batters at the plate (forewarning of off-speed pitches using primary real-time TV camera footage) in the 2017 WORLD SERIES that resulted in a Houston world championship -COMPARED TO- #2. George Brett’s singular plate appearance deemed illegal at the end of a regular-season July game with “perhaps too much pine tar on the bat” (which in fact, was eventually overturned, resulting in a Royals victory btw) Needless to say, these two scenarios are VASTLY different on the scale of “cheating in baseball”. George Brett’s singular at-bat was indeed controversial for a single game, but the Astros’ cheap, petty schemes in 2017 COMPLETELY RIGGED THE ENTIRE WORLD SERIES. These two events are INCOMPARABLE.
"the Astros’ cheap, petty schemes in 2017 COMPLETELY RIGGED THE ENTIRE WORLD SERIES." Worst part is the fuckers tried the same shit again the next year and still got their ass beat by the Nationals. It's one thing to be a cheater, but it's truly amazing to be so incompetent of a cheater that you _still lose_ even with an unfair advantage.
Really suspicious how the Yankees only questioned the bat after the home run was hit, especially on a stupid technicality that wouldn't have made a difference
What's funny about the pre-internet older games, is that the cheating players figured that their cheating might be shown a few times on regular TV and then disappear into the ether. Welcome to the internet.
How the hell does having pine tar high up on the barrel help you hit???? If anything it would make the ball stick to the bat a fraction longer. I understand how it affects spin rate but hitting the ball? How?
Astros cheating is just like One Outs the anime. I wonder how much coincidence that is that they both used sound to warm what type of pitch would be coming.
