ilovebrandnewcarpets Because MLB executives are idiots. The 4 pitch intentional walk that happens maybe once, rarely twice a game does not hurt anything. Now, the pressure is off the pitcher. This video should serve as a reason against the 1 pitch intentional walk. MLB is hurting itself more than it helps itself. People like the NBA and NFL, not only because it is high-action, but because athletes are allowed to celebrate. Today, players can't express emotion without the umpire getting on their case. MLB once did fine with no pace of play rules. The game pace is not the issue. This World Baseball Classic, be sure to watch a Japanese, Korean, Dominican Republic, etc. game and note the passion they play with. I guarantee it is more entertaining than MLB. MLB needs to stop tampering with the game and just let the players play.
The commentator at the end isn't totally wrong. When you're used to throwing 80mph knuckle balls, 95-100+ mph fast balls, and 80ish mph curveballs, it's freaky just lobbing a ball 3 feet off target.
Bruh... avg fastball is 93 for 2016. Total average velocity on all pitches thrown in a year is gonna be mid 80s. People throw curves and change ups and sliders and cutters all in the 70-89 range even when they have 95mph fastballs. You dont know shit and just wanted to correct someone for no reason. You understood his point just fine without precise trivial information.
Dave Benny All I can think about is Jon Lester couldn't hold my 96 year old mother at 1st. Or Jason Heyward has the worst swing in baseball. But the Cubbies won so that's all that matters.
This is why the automatic intentional walk shoudlnt be a thing. These things can change the entire game, why would you wanna take that away just to speed up the game by maybe a total one 2 minutes total? *tisk* *tisk*
Ethan Jonas This is exactly why it should be a thing. If a pitcher can't throw a lob to the catcher, that's not the other teams problem. It can change the outcome of the game. Bc you don't know what can happen is why it should be a thing.
they do this against good batters or to get a double it’s not to speed up the game it’s to help the team into a situation with a not so good batter or a double play situation idiot
@@physicalgrafitti4684 Reading comprehension is important, Hen. Ethan wasn't talking about the reasons a team intentionally walks the opposition. He was clearly referring to MLB's rule change where pitchers no longer throw pitches during an intentional walk.
If you disagree with instant replay in baseball, then you have to disagree with instant replay in every sport. Which means football can't have penalty challenges because it would just be his word vs the other guy's. It's too ingrained into the game at this point. Also, why do you disagree with it?
LuckyYoshi7 if you look at the pitch tracker they threw 4 outside in the same spot just because it isn't a pitch out doesn't mean it's not an intentional walk, they were probably hoping he'd get greedy and try to step into one and hit into an out
It's kinda sad that we'll never see crazy stuff like this again. And it's not for some player safety reason that we as fans could, if grudgingly, accept, like the universal DH or 7-inning doubleheaders. Rob Manfred is killing MLB.
I remember one time Jack Clark hit a home run while the pitcher was trying to intentionally walk him. The 4th pitch went right over the plate and he belted it.
I've looked and looked. Somewhere, years ago, I'm pretty sure Steve Sax got a double off of a pitch out when he was playing for the Yankees. That was the first time I'd seen that happen.
I did the same thing in Strat-O-Matic as the Barry Bonds vs. RHP IBB, two out with bases loaded, around the same year, only with Albert Pujols. Gave up the run gladly, and the next batter made the third out. In both cases, a manager would be insane *not* to. My opposing SOM manager was livid.
Intentional walk is always a double-edged sword. 2016 World Series, Game 7, top 10th, one out. Two intentional walks led to the go ahead and eventual championship-winning runs.
I swear if MLB gets rid of this rule and just lets the batter go to first I will be pissed. Sure, most of the time this play goes off with a hitch, but as seen in this video and other similar videos, this can cost teams at key moments in the game when the pitcher fucks up.
Walking Bonds with the bases loaded was not crazy. It is a savvy piece of managing by Buck Showalter. What the video here didn't show is that next batter lined out to end the game and the Diamondbacks hung on to win 8-7.
These are why intentional walks should have to pitched. A bad intentional ball could be hit, a wild pitch, or the batter can be duked into striking out. Awarding a base automatically does little to accerate the pace of the game. Having to pitch the 4 balls also adds to the shame of refusing to pitch to a guy.
As the announcer said, this is why they should never have implemented the automatic IBB rule. If you are talented enough to earn millions of dollars to throw a baseball accurately, you better be able to do it 4 times in a row without fucking up and costing your team runs.
@Jonathan Stiles I mean that is no longer an impossibility, yet it also isn't a possibility lol. It's somewhere in between, on that grey scale of "yes, this /could/ happen... and god /could/ be real... and I /could/ be god".... but the probability is close enough to zero for all of the above that we can basically consider it to be zero until some new evidence/information/technique is brought forth that makes it more likely.
@Jonathan Stiles I guess that's a good word to describe it; I feel "not plausible" still gives the connotation that it could feasibly happen, but would be surprising. Like I wouldn't consider god to be "implausible", i would consider the notion to be practically impossible without actually being 100% impossible. I guess it's all a matter of connotation even if definitionally you are correct.
Back in the day when I used to pitch I can say intentionally walking someone was harder than it looks. Very unnatural purposely throwing the ball way outside.
Never again. They should never has changed the rule. We are talking about 3 extra minutes a game for 99% of intentional walks, and the other 1% were exciting errors or batters hitting the lobbed pitch. Sometimes that exciting 1% was game changing.
At the time, Barry Bonds was an extremely difficult out. He wasn't just a home run threat, he was also very disciplined at the plate (he only struck out 87 times the prior year). With the tying run at second, the Diamondbacks did not want Bonds to put the ball in play. An IBB with the bases loaded had last happened in the 1940s.
I wish that I could do this (in a BIG manner of speaking). I looked up "baseball foul ball base runs" and came up empty-handed. Watch out for people who'll do that kind of thing in real life! Working sideways to get where they're headed, because that's all that they can do.
I can never understand how pitchers who train to be as accurate as possible, hitting their spots while throwing as hard as they can, miss when they need to throw it in a case where there is a much larger room for error
I love Miggy but why is it such a smart play to hit a single on an intentional walk? Seems like in both scenarios you get to first base, but in one you risk taking a strike? Is it because you stand the chance to get a double or more?
Because the single scored the run on that play, whereas the walk would'nt've scored the run. Plus, it looks better in the stat column as a hit than a walk
If I'm correct on the rules, the throw to Ortiz should've been a strike. I believe that a batter who leaves the batter's box before the pitch arrives (or leans over the plate for that matter) is automatically given a strike no matter where the pitch is located.
As a pitcher there are a lot of things that are uncomfortable and these would be one of them, your arm angle is so used to releasing and doing one thing thousands of times and then you have to try and switch it up like this to throw to the catcher standing up and it's hard. Also fielding a bunt ground ball and throwing down to 1st is difficult because of the same thing your arm angle and release point totally different
Things like this kind of put me off from baseball.... things like hiding the ball when you're on base to get out a player when he steps of base, intentionally getting hit by a ball to force a walk (which has happened), intentionally hitting a batter...
They're going to change all these rules and ruin this game that had been basically the same for over 100 years just because some dipshits on Twitter say that it's boring.
let's savior this like we did when catcher's blocked the plate and got tackled to make an out, because we will no longer see this, sad was happening to baseball
Intentionally walking bonds with the bases loaded...... If that doesn't tell you how scared managers were of him, nothing will. Of course they didn't know for sure that he pumpin the roids at that time.
