yk whats crazy is that the pitch before one of the coaches moved him 10 steps over to that side. if coach didnt do that play would never have been made
Never forget that Austin Jackson saved Galarraga’s perfect game in the 9th inning for the Tigers. Truly a remarkable game with no controversy whatsoever.
I will never forget that game. Such a great play, and what makes it even better is that it automatically meant that Galarraga got a perfect game - no BS!
My total biased opinion (I'm a White Sox fan haha) but that Dwayne Wise catch, given the situation, was probably one of the best catches of all time. He was playing pretty shallow to begin with and that ball left the bat pretty quick, so the fact he even got there is amazing in itself. But to have that composure not only to get a glove on it running full speed at the fence, but to catch the juggling ball while he was falling was simply amazing.
You also have to factor in the fact that he was a defensive replacement in the 9th inning, so that was the very first play after he got in the game... not easy to do when you've been sitting for 8 innings.
Bleed Cubbie blue and could not agree more. One of the all time great catches regardless of the situation and when you add the drama of a no-hitter it achieves immortality
I love watching these. When we talk no-hitters, it’s all about the pitcher. These are good reminders that in reality it takes a whole team to make it happen
What makes this special is seeing how hard the whole team works to bring that no-hitter home. Even in garbage time, these guys are diving for fly balls, running into the fence.
+ILIKECHOCOLATEPIEmmm Dude that Souza catch for Zimmermans No-hitter was sickkkkk as well...Crawford's was definitely the best, guy made that routine lol
ILIKECHOCOLATEPIEmmm Anyone who doesn't say Wise had the best catch is dead wrong. It's number one and it's not even close. He saved the game twice in one catch.
DeWayne Wise's catch was one of the best catches I'd ever seen. I remember screaming at the screen, as it was happening live, "CATCH IT CATCH IT CATCH IT!"
Giants defense has just always been good man, Boch and Kap know where the value is, and yet we always get written off. But for context: Cain perfect 2012, Lincecums first No hit 2014, second 2015, Chris Heston 2016, and I believe there might be one more in there I'm forgetting (I don't believe Peavy got his). Team has always been dirty defensively.
Giants have always had a good pitching staff, all 3 WS titles and every good season where we make October has been lead by stellar pitching. Run support had always been an issue, even in the WS years we hit well but nowhere near some of the other play off teams
@4:04 The ONLY play in this video where the player had the choice of either saving a no-hitter or saving his career. Thanks for sacrificing it all Mike.
What's weird is... a perfect game is REALLY RARE... and I saw 2 of them at Safeco Field. And I've only been to 6 MLB games in my life. A statistician should figure the odds of only going to 6 games ever and seeing 2 perfect games. Then factor in at same stadium. Then factor in within a few years of each other.
I went to one. It was the last one in the video during matt cains perfect game. ive gone to like 7 games. Still pretty rare too lol it was an awesome experience. loudest crowd ive ever heard
That is amazing ... I had to look it up ... there have been roughly 200,000 Major League Baseball games since the start of the national league, and 21 perfect games. I may be off on the math, but the statistical chances of being personally present at any two such games, with no other factors looked at, are about 1 in just under 40 billion. There are some lotteries you would have a better chance of winning. That you saw these in Seattle, where the Mariners have only existed since 1977 seems like it would make those odds even larger (but I won't swear to that). That you have only attended 6 games in your life (presumably all in Seattle ... I know I don't know how to calculate that. It is absolutely amazing. I've been attending baseball games for over 40 years, and have been to maybe a hundred of them ... I've seen one 1-hitter, but no no-hitters or perfect games. Some people have all the luck.
First name that came to mind was Wise. Well not entirely- I couldn’t remember his first name was DeWayne. But what a catch! Dude never played more than 100 games in a season, yet he’ll always be a baseball hero for that moment.
A coworker who saw the game just described it to me, so I looked it up. Amazing. Cold off the bench. What a pro. I didn't know who Wise was. He couldn't hit well apparently, but he did something VERY memorable. preserved on youtube.
When you're at home and getting beat with a no hitter all you can do is say, hey, at least i saw some history today. There are 161 other games to be a die hard fan for your team. Give the opposing pitcher some love. Except if he's a yankee, that is.
O:39 So, we got a few amazing plays in that double play. 1. The dive by Crawford. 2. The perfect gloved toss by Crawford to Panik. 3. The smooth turn by Panik. His timing and footwork is like a well choreographed dance performance. 4. Perfect throw to 1st. A thing of beauty. 4. The throw to first by Panik.
I watched that White Sox/Rays game live when I was 8. When Wise made that catch I was yelling and cheering like I was watching my own team (Mariners). It was so epic I ran upstairs to get my dad so he could see the replays haha
Being a White Sox fan im actually shocked with all the love for the Wise catch. Honestly expected it to not even be on here. White Sox players not being ignored is new to me.
dwayne wise was the best under the circumstances which this vid is all about but again wise was the best. saved buerhle's first perfect game and second no hitter
Katie Monahan Dwayne Wise catch has to be the best as it did save the perfect game for Buerhle. Was so excited to see this on TV and to think I could have gone to the game but decided to just stay home that day
Really love the videos man. Keep it up. I would love a compilation of maybe guys hitting the wall while making a catch, or those home plate collisions we all miss so dearly.
1:19 i could care less about the phillies, but Damn. 2 outs, full count, a pitch away from a complete game no hitter, and the outfielder makes it and saves the game for him.
A lot to take in there: it was likely ball four and it was classic odoubel. Any time a ball was hit in his direction, we held our breath because his routes were bad. Any time he was a base runner, we held our breath because he made bad decisions. He was a goof, but he was also clutch at times. It’s a shame his judgement off the field was so similar to his judgement on it.
I remember watching Souza's catch live, to have that on the 27th out and for the first no-hitter in Nats history AND on the final game of the season, easily my favorite catch in my memory
First thing I thought about when I saw the title was Robin Yount's catch saving Juan Nieves' no-hiitter. 2 outs, top of 9.....It was a long time ago so I wasn't sure you would include it. Well done man, well done.
Mike Baxter grew up a Mets fan and made the biggest play in the game for the Mets no-hitter. I don't think he ever played Major league baseball again after this game. What a Legend.
In Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series, there were two great defensive plays. In the second, Jackie Robinson hit a hard grounder off the glove of 3B Andy Carey, but the ball deflected directly to SS Gil McDougald who threw out Jackie by half a step. In the fifth, Gil Hodges hit a drive to deep left center, Yankee Stadium's "Death Valley", but CF Mickey Mantle made an all-out running backhanded catch. (Also Duke Snider and Sandy Amoros hit upper deck drives that were just barely foul.) Like the saying goes, it's a game of inches.
One play sadly missing from this - Austin Jackson's incredible catch in the 9th inning of Armando Galarraga's "perfect" game. If Jim Joyce gets the call right a couple minutes later, Jackson takes #1 away from Wise.
This is a great list. One that comes to mind for me: Magglio Ordonez made a sensational diving catch in right field to preserve Justin Verlander's first no-hitter (2007 vs Milwaukee.)
I like your videos BB42. I'm wondering what you have in store for the future. I think it's terrible when fans/commentators make suggestions. But I'll do it anyway. How about ballboy/ballgirl plays; Fan catches; something with broken bats; announcers mistakes?; Suicide Squeezes (or did you do that one?) Anyway, thanks for your efforts.
What I have in store for the future is fan plays, longest homers of 2015, some more individual player highlight vids, amazing throws part 2 and a lot more.
Very rarely, especially since the majority of the league doesn't play in stadiums with a dome. It has happened a few times in Tropicana Field however. Balls would sky up and clank the rafters- rarely touches the top of the dome. The Rays and the Blue Jays are the only teams who play inside a dome.
wise catch is prob the best, but omg the catch at 3:35 is INSANE. you can tell how insane it is because the runner on first was *completely* caught by surprise and it wound up being a double play, because that was literally like a 1% prayer throw-your-arm-out kind of affair... amazing.
DeWayne Wise’s catch man. Just cinema. Whole crowd goes dead silent thinking the no hitter was just broken up by a homerun just for wise to reach over and the crowd erupts. Insane
Under the circumstances, I think Dwayne Wise's catch was the best catch in the history of baseball. He had absolutely no time to set up to rob it and caught it well over the wall.
I know everyone likes Dewayne Wise's catch, but my favorite has to be Gregor Blanco's catch. Cain had a perfect game on the line too, and Blanco caught it at a full run, over his shoulder, making a full on dive to catch the ball on the warning track, then held onto it as he crashed into the ground. That's after he ran halfway across the cavernous outfield at AT&T Park.
I remember Johan Santan's No-Hitter 4:05. Its amazing how in that play and so many of the others shown in this video how some of these players are willing to put their bodies on the line for their teammate. That's a great way to show how this is a team sport.
You didn't put in Houston Astros 6 pitchers No Hitter against the Yankees at a Yankees stadium, or Mike Fiers No Hitter this year where Jake Marisnick literally saved his no hitter from a great fly ball that was almost a home run.
There was a great play by Chuck Knoblauch to save David Wells' perfect game. I was there. Few people if anybody remember that Wells went 7 and 1/3 perfect against Oakland in his very next start at the stadium. I was there too.
I'm normally football fan (I mean the real football, the one you actually play with your feet, not with your hands!), but the one thing I really adore about baseball is that you can achieve absolute perfection, which is simply not possible in football. No-hitters, perfect games, grand slams, triple plays, 0-3 strike counts, those things just don't exist in most other sports. You always try to achieve perfection, especially in sports, but baseball is the only sport you can achieve it. That's probably why I'm so fascinated by baseball even though where I live (Europe) almost nobody cares about it. I do and I love it.
I love perfect games and no-hitters. Most of the attention goes to the pitcher, and deservedly so, but it's a whole defensive team effort and seeing plays like this compliments that fact. I remember watching live David Cone, David Wells, and I think one other pitcher's perfect games with my father back in the day. Crawford's play was exceptional, not only did he have to make the tough dive, but the flip was PERFECT, out of the glove no less. Thanks to this video I think Dwight Gooden was the other perfect game, he was my favorite pitcher back then, so naturally, I forgot about him lol.
+daniel curatolo "the good of that play" was only good because he fucked it up. every thing youre saying isnt meaning shit to me. you dont know me, you dont know how i live my life because i think a baseball play shouldve been routine. for many reasons you are a hypocrite. with everything youre telling me youre doing at the same time. you couldnt just leave my opinion be, you had to tear it down. ever think about that? live your life the way youre telling others bud, id suggest never looking at youtube comments.
Calm down bro Just like the rest. Keep perpetuating the culture of negative and tear down. And just like the rest, ya' don't get it. Everyone like you says the same thing, that I'm a hypocrite, and I'm not denying it in ways, I do not deny my imperfections, but you say I am doing the same thing you are doing. You tore down a play, whether you are right or wrong about your judgement of it, you tore it down, and I tore down your comment. But without your comment, I wouldn't have had to make a comment, would I? I tore down your unnecessary comment, your non-constructive comment, but you're right, I should stop looking at youtube comments, because I have higher standards for people and courtesy and expectations for respect in life. That doesn't mean I live life better, but it does mean I expect more of people than you. Life sure would be easier if I lived with your standards. But I just can't seem to bring myself to it. Enjoy it and God Bless.
I mean, I suppose so, but nothing was on the line. If that play occurred in say the 7th or later it would have been much more exciting. Nobody "blows" a no-hitter in the first. It would have just been another hit.
Great video. My favorite was the Wise catch for the White Sox. Also you should have included the Austin Jackson catch for Detroit, the "28 out Perfect game"
Douglas Henry If it makes you feel any better (assuming you’re an Orioles fan) you can think of it as giving him the chance to do his dream job and be announcer for his childhood team.
out of all the baseball vids showing cool stuff, this one is my fav because it shows some pretty relevant stuff that has to happen in order for a no hitter to happen. anyone can put a home run compilation together.
