Stealing Home Compilation 

I was at the Red Sox/Yankees where Elisburry stole home. The crowd was lit. Too bad I was in the bathroom when it happened

you can understand stealing home against a left hander, but a right hander? that's practically looking at you? talk about a slap in the face..... :D

So, as a guy who watches a lot of cricket, I'm going to say that none of these players stole home. They slide in, they touch the base, they get up, and they haven't stolen the base because the base is still there. Seriously, thanks for posting. Made me realise how much of an art there is to this.

I stole home on the pitch once. I realized about 10 feet from the plate that the batter had no clue I was coming and I if they swung it would probably kill me lol

it takes some serious balls to steal home

wheres Benny the jet Rodriguez?

"you sure hes 19" Dude looked 27 along with everyone else in that dugout.

All of those are fun in context, but the truly impressive thing is the straight steal of home, of which I counted 4 in this video (sadly including one by the Red Sox against my Yankees, which I watched live and still remember). The one straight steal against the right hander was truly remarkable though. That has to be up there with perfect games and unassisted triple plays as amongst the rarest feats in baseball.

Nice compilation. The rarest and most fun to watch play in baseball.

No love for Rod Carew? He stole home SEVEN times in 1969 !!

want to see someone steal home in world series game 7....down by 1....2 outs...bottom of the 9th

Run downs, pass balls, wild pitches and broken plays shouldn't really count as stolen bases. I like the true steal when you just steal the base.

Where is Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez?

Love it! Especially with 2 outs. 3:50 was the best with a left-handed batter. Pitchers got to watch those runners!

You really had to play that ear rape at the end

I'm a simple guy. I don't follow baseball really that much, but I am always watching videos like this on my lunch break. Any kind of sport.

Homeless ppl should take notes It's a joke ;-;

Ppl forget how good Omar Vizquel was and the quality of the teams he played for. He should be in the HOF for sure.

Pick-Offs and passed balls don't count as steals.

The straight steals are the best, especially the one against the righty. That's an alert baserunner and a pitcher that's truly asleep at the switch.

In my mind, a lot of them are not stealing home. Maybe *technically* by the letter of the rule they are, but not in my mind when there's 15 throws around the diamond. That's just sloppy fundamentals. One of the best was missing, Jason Werth taking it on the throw back to the pitcher.

Among the most exciting plays in the game. I've seen one no-hitter (one pitch short of a perfect game, the last batter walked). It felt like you were witnessing baseball history.

I hope to see more of these MLB videos from you Bryce...I really liked "Punks".

I don't always steal, but when I do, I steal home.

1:34 is the first real steal of home.

Thanks for the compilation. But most of these were double steals, or one very wild pitch. A straight steal of home is one of the rarest things we see, which is part of the reason it's the most exciting play, in my opinion.

The slowest guy on my team stole home... i was in a pickle for about a minute...

The crowd is pumped after a steal home

Benny The Jet Rodriguez has the greatest steal ever

One of the most exciting plays in sports. I didn't play baseball very long, but played it all during my youth. I was a very quick kid who was also pretty tiny. So my strike zone was small so I'd get on base a lot via walks, bunts, or neatly placed bloopers into the shallow part of the outfield. I remember my coach one time told me to, if I got walked, to run as fast as I could straight to first and keep going to second. I forget if it worked or not but let's just say that it did.

Only 4 were "pure" steals.

My friend jumped over the catcher at our softball game and got us a point it was awesome!

2:06 Thats when the Phillies knew they wanted Harper for 13 years😂 how times change🤣

I wonder if the umpires get excited seeing something that awesome like Andrus stealing home

"The sound cut out so I replaced blessed silence with garbage"

Saving the best for last. I remember watching him play in high school. Fast as they come!!

the royals are just a well put together team it's not like they have some amazing players it's just they have the right team

Love it I stole home to win this summer best rush I have ever felt!

In my opinion, it's the best play in baseball.

That last "classic" was a balk too! Take your base, thank you pitcher.

Harper stole home on a team he’d be on in the future kinda crazy

When I was a kid playing ball, our best defense against a first and third double steal was for the catcher to throw the ball low and hard to the second baseman, but have the pitcher cut the ball off and throw it back to the catcher, nailing the runner at home. It worked all the time. I only saw it tried once at the major league level and it worked then, also. I don't know why they either fake the throw, or throw down to second most of the time, neither of which work, almost ever. Plus, if you used the pitcher-cut off play once or twice, and it gets around the league, the pitcher can FAKE the cut-off, which makes the guy on third hold his ground, and you still have a chance for the runner at second.

Thanks for this kinda video bryce

Villar, Harper, Visquel and Andrus were true steals. The last one is just sick.

Missing Ellsbury's newest clip now :)

Jason Werth should be on here. His strategy was brilliant

I'm a Yankees fan but I gotta say that Ellsbury steal was dirt nasty.

From MLB.com: "However, if he was attempting to steal as a wild pitch/passed ball was thrown, he is generally given credit for it." I like this. If the runner starts before the he knows it's a wild pitch or passed ball, give him credit for the steal. Although it does say, "generally," so that probably means there's some allowance for the scorekeeper to say he wouldn't have been anywhere close to succeeding, and so score it a WP or PB.

Thanks. I play in a 48+ fast pitch league and I still have speed. This year, I am hoping to try to do a straight steal of home. I mean, why not at my age? I'll let you know what happens.

I guess we've all seen Jackie Robinson's straight steal on Whitey Ford in the 1955 World Series. It's still an all-time highlight, and Yogi was probably right. But what a daring move by Robinson, who timed the play exquisitely.

I thought it was people actually stealing houses

that last one is ohso classic... good stuff

how bout the vid of jakie Robinson stealing home

Fun idea..... a right-handed batter (who knows the steal is on), purposely misses a bunt, but doesn't move and instead kind of opens his legs for the runner to slide through. The catcher would have a hell of a time trying to tag him out around the batter........ LOL

The 2 Royals ones were 👌

The best one was Elvis with the straight steal against a RIGHT hander.

0:23 Major League final game?

MLB is really going to miss the K.C. Royals team of the past few years in 2018. Their style of play epitomized the "small ball" approach that every sports radio caller and host lovingly eulogizes 24/7, 7 months of every year, across this Nation. Gonna miss that intensity. (I say this not as a Royals fan, just another distant admirer).

Last one was the best.

1:33 I love that one, the straight up steal of home.

Awesome vid dude.... As a left handed pitcher years ago I had a guy do that to me stealing home..... Not a good feeling.

No Billy Hamilton?

Thank you for that awesome video. Totally Epic!

Cant believe u made 4 grand off this video miss u lol

I am enjoying your great compilations. The best part? No music.

OK..so you supposedly had to add the last one because it was a classic. That doesn't mean you had to add annoying music to it. There is nothing wrong with some silence in a video. Always MUCH better than really loud annoying "I will always be a virgin" music.

Ty Cobb holds the major league career record of 54 steals of home. He also holds the A.L record of stealing 2nd, 3rd and home 4 times. Babe Ruth stole home 10 times. The N.L. career record is 33 by the Pirates Max Carey. When Pete Reiser of the Dodgers wasn't running face first into walls he was pretty adept at stealing home. He holds the single season record with 7 steals of home in 1946.

Thumbs down for the ef'd up music at the end. I would rather hear NOTHING!

what was so classic about the play with no audio ? looked just like the other steal of home when the pitcher was asleep ....

pass balls and wild pitches are not stealing home

Let's see all STRAIGHT steals of home. Far more exciting than most of these.

Last season in baseball I stole home 16 times in 12 games.

Escobar's steal of home was the best I've ever seen. No matter how many times I see it, still amazed. I'm not even a kc fan

Most of these arent really stealing home lol

Nice play and it was funny when the man said is you sure that guy is 16.

3:13 cmon I could do that

This would be a better compilation if it didn't include all the run downs and double steals, and if more classic steals of home were included

I recommend you do a Stealing signs compilation to compliment your excellent SHC.

thanks for making this awesome video hope you make some more like this

Only four straight steals of home. The rest were a consequense of another play

That last one was awesome Thanks

I think it is safe to say that when someone hears the term "stealing home" they are thinking of what is a "suicide" steal, where there is no other play involved preceding the runner breaks home from third (such as after a pick off move, etc.). With that being clarified, the only "true" (suicide) steals of home in this clip are at 1:35, 3:48, 4:28 and the final segment at 4:47.

"Just the way they practiced it before the game." I love when sportscasters can be that smart, that fast.

I play men's league slow pitch softball, I play for one reason: It's not for the workout, the beer, the women, its not to hit home runs or win games or championships, I don't play for the glory or comradery, I play because there is nothing better in the world than seeing the look on the faces in the opposing dugout when you steal home

It would be funny if he added the sandlot one

The clip of Villar, Andrus, and Vizquel is how u REALLY steal home.

Clip number 2 is a classic suicide squeeze play to get a single run on a bunt

Jesus the last one was how you steal home plate! He just out run the pitch!

Home plate is probably the easiest base to steal off of pudge.

1:56 OMG! Did that really happen? I never even dreamed you could do that! WTF was the pitcher thinking?

Nice compilation video Bryce!

On several of those double steals, I watched MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL players screw up, big time!!! When the first throw is made to the first baseman and the runner on first goes down toward second, he needs to throw the ball to the second baseman, particularly if the runner has stopped. Most of the time, the fielder throws the ball too soon and that allows the runner on third to "creep" down toward the plate. The thing is to get the ball AHEAD of the runner, the second baseman, then let him run the runner back towards first. All the while, he is watching the guy on third. if he gets down too far, give up on the runner at first and start running toward the runner coming down the line. DON'T THROW THE BALL YET!! Run at him getting him to commit and then throw it to either the catcher, if he is running home OR to the shortstop who is covering third and you have an out. The runner at first may get second, but you have the lead runner out and you are in a better position. I was really amazed at how these guys screwed up a fundamental of baseball. You shouldn't throw the ball more than twice during this entire run down.

Ty Cobb would approve of all of these steals of home

Bryce your videos are great keep it up. Btw whats your favorite team

Who’s watching when Bryce Harper is on the Philadelphia Phillies

I guess looking on the ground, is more important than keeping an eye on the runner at third or even keeping an eye at home, in case the catcher indicates that the runner is trying to steal. If I was the manager, I would remind the pitcher to keep his sight on what's actually important and to change his ritual.

The 'Straight Steal of Home' is indeed a lost art. Maybe the most famous was Jackie Robinson with Brooklyn Dodgers stealing home during the 1955(?) World Series in YankeeStadium-I recall the replays showing Yogi Berra going into a tirade because he was called safe-he looked out to me. But the greatest was Rod Carew-he had 7 in 1969.

Rod Carew, under the tutelage of Billy Martin, was a great stealer of home, recording 7 steals of home in 1969, one below the record by Ty Cobb of 8 in 1912. If Carew had not blown out his knee in 1970 and lost some of his speed he may have set the all-time record for steals in a season.

1 min 56 sec..."this is a wookiee against the left handed pitcher" lol

The straight steals by Villar, Visquel and Andrus are impressive. Others that stole on throwing errors or fielding decisions because other players were on base are heads up plays, but does not require the same savvy.