In case no one has explained: The two leagues you refer to are the National league and the American league. Both are in MLB and teams in each league play each other and the world series is always between one team from each league. In the American league it is the pitchers who do not bat, instead there is a player on the roster called the designated hitter who only hits (this is probably one of the most debated rules amongst fans in the sport). When teams from each league face each other they go by the rule of the home team i.e. if they are playing in an American league ball park the national league team uses a designated hitter.
Also a fan can not reach over the wall and interfere with a ball it is fan interference and the fan is ejected from the stadium. If the ball is over a wall it is fair play and a fan can actually prevent an out in that situation.
For the majority of baseball history, the different leagues didn't even play each other, except for the world series. They started playing each other in 1997.
yeah, its not the catcher, its the pitcher. The pitcher bats in the National League (Mets) where as the Yankees will have a position just designated to bat, called the designated hitter, DH for short and the DH bats instead of the Pitcher. When the American League plays at a National League home, they have to adopt their rules, and vice versa.
Y'all don't understand that it's fan interference when a fan reaches over in the field of play. It's an automatic out for the batter. It's all fun and games until you cost your team some runs or a game! Especially in the playoffs. People have gotten death threats and things for that.one Chicago cubs fan had to literally change his name and go into hiding because of the threats that were leveled at him.
@@hifijohn Both somewhat false. Bartman din't ever change his name, he just laid real low (honestly until this day over 15 years later). He also didn't need police protection outside the first 24-48 hours (can't remember) only out of procedure. I mean, it got bad for him, but it wasn't that bad.
It's not an automatic out for the batter. Assuming the ball is over the field of play, the umpire can rule an out if he feels a fielder would have caught the ball on the fly. For a ground ball, ruled fair, the ball is declared dead once a fan touches it or it enters the stands, and the umpire will allow the runner(s) to advance to the base he rules they would have reached.
9:57 "Oh... they kicked the kid out." Ya.. as a fan, you can catch any ball you want as long as your hands stay out of the field of play. For example, the two fouls earlier in the video where the fans snatch the ball away from the players? Those are fine as, although the ball is playable, it's hit into the stands and out of the field of play. All is fair there. You might piss off the player who could have gotten it, but you didn't technically do anything wrong. However, if you're a fan, who reaches into the field of play and snatches a ball away from a player... and then you gloat about it to said player or the cameras... you will get tossed.
You are spot on. If you see brooms at sporting events it's for a sweep of a series in playoffs usually. Also in the situation at the end where the kid catches the ball that was still in play, that becomes a home run for the other team instead of an out when the player was going to catch it.
The fan in the second clip is named Zack Hample, he has the largest collection of game used baseballs in the world and actually travels around the country to games just to snag some balls during or before the game. He vlogs his travels too. He's not everyone's favorite person, has a reputation of taking the balls away from kids, but there's plenty of worse people out there in my book and he's harmless.
It’s the pitcher that doesn’t bat in the American League, they have a DH hit for him. BUT if a national league team is at home against an American League team, I believe the American leagues pitcher must bat though 🤔
Correct, and if the National League team plays in an American League team's park, then they use a DH. In 2020, there was a universal DH in both leagues, and sadly, that's probably where the sport is headed permanently.
There are 2 different leagues indeed. The American League, and the National League. Also, its the pitchers that don't bat in the American league. The American league teams get to use a designated batter (a superb batting specialists) to bat in place of the pitcher.
In 2020 both leagues used designated hitters, it remains to be seen if this will be a permanent change because the rule was passed with a bunch of other rules to make the the game work with a shortened season and covid but there's a very real chance that it could stick around.
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There is an entire video on that last clip with the girls taking selfies where the announcers just rip on them for 3-5 minutes lol. It's absolutely hilarious
In the last bit with the young girls, throughout the game all these children did was engage in more self absorbed behaviors: taking selfies, eating, and posing for more selfies. They never bothered to note there was a game going on or a world outside of themselves. Toward the end of that shot the baseball announcer said, "Welcome to parenting in the modern world". I laughed out loud. More like welcome to the lack of parenting in the modern world.
In the last bit, they were holding churros, not sausages. Churros are Mexican fried dough coated in sugar and cinnamon. Sorry to ruin your double entendre. At 9:53 the umpires called the batter out after consulting with the instant replay umpires based in New York. When a fan interferes with play, the umpires will take action to negate the interference. It wouldn't surprise me if the fan were also ejected from the ballpark, but they didn't show that in the video. I've seen worse stuff than this happen at ballgames. I've seen fistfights, and I've heard fans scream obscenities and racial epithets. I was once at a game where the A's hosted the Giants, and a fan in front of me offered to fight every Giants fan he saw (they just laughed at him). I've seen people staggering drunk. Most fans are just out to enjoy themselves, but in a crowd with tens of thousands of people there's likely to be a few idiots and jerks.
There is a Tradition of bringing a Broom to a game, yes to clean sweep the Series. Most play 3-4 Game Series at a time. If you are up 2 games to zero, you bring a broom to the game.
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1:30 "My take on it is you have the real commercial teams...." This is because each baseball team operates as basically its own stand-alone business, so the teams from bigger cities or those with more fans make more money. They are able to scout and pay the bigger named players more money. Therefore the big teams get bigger and the small teams stay where they are. Essentially Capitalism at its finest. It's one of the reasons the New York Yankees have won 27 World Series Championships, while, a team like the Kansas City Royals have only won twice. American Football actually functions in a more socialistic way as far as obtaining talent goes. All 32 teams in the NFL share revenue equally, therefore no one team can spend more money on talent than any other. It's actually what makes the NFL so successful... that any team can win, even the Cincinnati Bengals or the New Orleans Saints. Capitalism vs. Socialism in a microcosm. I always thought that was interesting.
Perhaps Piazza didn’t bat in some of the games you watched because another catcher was playing that game. Some pitchers have a specific catcher they work well with so when that pitcher comes up in rotation the normal starting catcher will sit out that game.
Please react to the little league world series! Kids on teams from all 50 states and Japan, Australia, South Korea, and many other countries play and it's pretty entertaining.
You guys should react to Top Ten best tornadoes by Pecos Hank one of the tornadoes he caught on camera was the biggest and 2nd fastest tornado ever recorded.
National League and American League are both part of the MLB. They're essentially like the different conferences of the NFL. The NFL, for instance, has the NFC and the AFC. And when the Super Bowl comes around, one team from each is represented. But, NFC and AFC teams play each other throughout the year. Same thing in baseball. The World Series will be between a team from the National League and one team from the American League... but they also play each other during the regular season. The playoffs, though, are just between AL teams, and NL teams. And in the NFL the playoffs are just between the best NFC teams, and then the best AFC teams, and the winners of each conference play each other. Calling them American "league" and National "league" is actually a misnomer. They should be called conferences. When you started mentioning it (the two leagues) I thought you were talking about the minor leagues. That's the smaller league that people play in before they go up to the majors. That's why in US English we say things like "you're in the Big League now" or something like that. It's in reference to moving up from the minors to the majors.
There isn't two different types of leagues. The National league doesn't have the PITCHER hit. you said catcher and Mike Piazza was a catcher that hit all the time lol. The National League and American League are both in the MLB. There is some interleague play every year but it is less common.
@@officeblokedaz can't remember if Piazza played for an AL team, he was before my time, but it's possible that if he did play for an AL team they would've used him as a designated hitter in league games, with the backup catcher starting in his place, and as the starting catcher in games against NL teams. Catchers are an interesting animal, historically they're either great fielders and shit at hitting or vice versa, and if my knowledge about Piazza is correct he wasn't a shit fielder so this strategy would've worked
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I know a couple other comments talked about there difference between the American League and the National League being the use of the designated hitter in place of the pitcher in the AL but for the 2020 season the NL adopted the DH role. This means that there were no rule differences between the leagues in 2020 and if they keep the rule there will be none going forward. Also this really doesn't matter (and no one asked) but I know its a bit confusing for people that are new watching MLB, they're called leagues because they started as two completely separate leagues that were fully independent from one another. Now they are just a way to organize teams like conferences are in other american sports leagues but the names remain to honor the history (and because baseball is a sport that loves its traditions and a change would not go over well at all)
Baseball.....is my favorite sport....I love football, hockey, basketball....we've had Michael Jordan and I'm from the southside of Chicago....we have 2 teams, 1 American League, The White Sox, and One The National League, The Cubs....the baseball teams define you. There is NOTHING greater than a baseball championship....and, make no mistake about it, baseball is extremely involved and far more than just a ball, bat and glove....every single movement, at this level, is complex. It is a slow game, not for everybody these days. But it also has jolts of speed and power.
The worst one has to be the one guy that ruined the Chicago Cub’s season back in the day...that one was always talked about before they won the World Series in 2016
In MLB games, fans can be kicked out for unsportsmanlike conduct, just as readily as the players can... You guys should react to some of the amazing fan catches, or the sportsmanship by players.
Quick notes American League (sometimes called the Junior Circuit because it claimed Major League status for the 1901 season, 25 years after the formation of the National League (the "Senior Circuit")) plays the National League in the World Series. But unlike in the past where the American league had a designated hitter to bat for the pitcher (pitchers typically stop being able to hit well as they go through college or the minor leagues because they are not in the Major Leagues for their hitting ability, but because they can throw extremely hard with great control and a mixture of different pitches. Also the different leagues used to never play each other. And the umpires were specific to a league. All of those things are no longer the case (even the DH which likely now will be standard in both leagues). There's no longer any real difference between the leagues. Last minor thing.... The Mets are certainly a big market team that spends a lot of money and now are actually owned by the richest owner in the sport. They aren't as famous or historic or well known as a recognized franchise as the Yankees. But the Yankees are the most well known baseball team in the world and their history goes back 50 or more years than the Mets. But both are in NYC. And spend a lot.
Sorry one more thing... I am probably ignorant here but I think you guys should enjoy some videos that actually show what makes these sports so beloved in the north America instead of say... Headshots in baseball (rare and scary), sportsmanship in basketball (just showed a bunch of players that committing rough fouls or plays that are not part of the qualities of the game), fights in hockey (which are not actually legal and are penalized but serve a purpose that those who don't watch the sport don't quite understand at all... Or are the part of the sport that an idiot would enjoy most because they can relate to it more than the skills required to actually play a sport on skates moving at high rates of speed with extremely high levels of hand eye coordination, strength, athleticism etc...) To give you a reference it's like watching a football (soccer) video that shows plays that draw penalties and not the game itself.
I was once at a game where the people in the stands behind us each snuck in bottles of vodka. They were just annoying everyone at first. No biggie.......until one of them started screaming at the players in the dugout to “go f your mother” followed by a taunt of “struck out again, limp dick! Guess your bat is the only thing that can stay hard in your hands.” He was promptly asked to leave, refused, threw his bottle of vodka at the staff and was then tackled to the ground and forcibly removed from the stadium. It was a truly entertaining and magical thing to see.
Here's what I think: If the ball is in FOUL TERRITORY and a fan catches a ball in the stands without interfering with a player's chance to catch the ball, the umpires will not rule it an out and the fan will not be ejected from the ballpark.. It's just a plain foul ball. I am not sure what happens if a ball is hit into FOUL TERRITORY and a fan catches it in the stands and DOES interfere with a player's chance to catch the ball. I think the umpires just let that go because it was a foul ball. On the other hand, if a ball is in FAIR TERRITORY and a fan reaches out into the field of play and catches the ball in a way that prevents a player from catching the ball, then the batter will be called out and the fan will be ejected from the ballpark. This can happen when a batter hits a ball near the outfield walls. There was one example of this in your clips, where a young boy caught the ball be leaning into the field of play and in doing so prevented a player from a chance to catch the ball. The umpires called the player who it the ball out, but the video does not show if the fan was ejected or not. The general rule is that fans are not allowed to interfere with the play on the field.
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4:00 that kid pointed out the guy that touched the ball because that is "fan interference". You get ejected for that. Some parks are very strict, some will cut you a little slack, unless it was some blatant shit.
As long as you get the ball without ripping it out of someone's hand you should get to keep it. People can go to hundreds of games over their life and not get a foul ball, which makes it all the more special if you get one as an adult. Good on people who give it to kids, but that shouldn't be expected.
So that was fan interference when the kid caught the ball preventing the outfielder from catching it. In the event of fan interference the batter is called out. When the ball would go out of bounds, A fan cannot reach into the field of play to interfere with the catch. However if the fielder goes into the stands to try to make a play, a fan does have the right to the ball. In baseball a batter has 3 strikes or he is out. A foul ball counts as a strike. However if the batter hits a foul ball on what would be his 3rd strike he gets additional attempts.
It's the American League that can have one of the fielders not hit and instead have a "designated hitter". 99.99% of the time it's the pitcher's spot that has a dh.
No the American League has a designated hitter that can take the place of the Pitcher, if the pitcher bats then the Designated hitter is not in effect. The etiquette for catching a ball, is if you can catch it do it, if that ball hits the kids it may break something.
So if you are unsure if the ball is clearly in foul territory it’s anybody’s ball, either the player or the fan. But if the ball is clearly in fair territory and a fan reaches into fair territory and interferes with the players ability to catch the ball the batter is called out.
The _Steve Bartman Incident_ was a huge omission in that video. The incident occurred in the eighth inning of Game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series, with Chicago Cubs leading 3-0 and holding a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series over the Florida Marlins. They were 5 outs from moving onto the _World_ Series, where they hadn't been since 1945 and hadn't won since 1908. The Cubs fan - Steve Bartman - deflected a foul ball that would have likely otherwise been caught. The Marlins then subsequently capitalized with 8 runs in the inning to win the game 8-3. Cubs eventually made it back to & won the WS in 2016 - but Steve Bartman and his family were under serious constant threat every year in between.
@@officeblokedaz At least you tried. I'm enjoying you guys and your take on American sports. I hear you mention New Jersey sometimes, my home state. I'm partial to baseball, NY Mets fan since 1962, so I especially enjoy any reactions. You might try: worst home plate collisions, over the fence catches, into the stands catches and longest outfield throws.
@@officeblokedaz One more thing. Saying the Mets are in the shadow of the Yankees, sort of like a small market team isn't exactly correct. No, it's the same market but until last week we had cheaper owners. But last week Steve Cohen, worth $14 billion, bought the Mets for $2.4 billion and is expected to spend $$$$$ to bring some high priced great players to the Mets.
