The most Bizarre thing I ever saw in a MLB game was when Denard Span hit a foul ball off of a fan's chest. That fan was his very own mother. You can't make this stuff up.
6:11 In his book, Pedro Martinez says he regrets his response to Don Zimmer charging him. In so many words, Pedro says, "I just should have run. It would be have been funny, Don Zimmer chasing me around the field." (I warmly recommend his autobiography PEDRO.)
How about when David Cone was arguing with the first base umpire on whether the base runner was out and while he was doing that another player scored b/c he had the ball?
I was at that spring training game in Scottsdale, where Randy Johnson exploded the bird. The vibe was really weird after. No one quite knew or understood what happened at first.
The Giants' Terry Mulholland having to throw his mitt to get a putout at 1b because the ball was somehow stuck in his glove was a bit weird. Forgot about that Cleveland beer night, that was...screwy and screwed up
I was at the game at the start when Puig dropped the ball, you can see me and my buddy in the stands in the shot. We were screaming at Puig all game so we always thought we made that happen. At one point he did turn and look back at us, that's why we thought we made it happen, we think we got under his skin.
Good video, Erik. I’m going through baseball withdrawals! I want some Giants baseball soon! Thanks for covering our team, bro. 🧡🖤⚾️. BTW: I think the Rubén Rivera base running blunder in a game vs Arizona in 2003. It was funny, but I didn’t laugh about it until the Giants later won the game…then it was hysterical! 😂😂😂
Thanks for the fun video! Although not as crazy as the incidents in this video, two of my favorite weird MLB moments from when I was a kid are the ball that hit Canseco on the head and bounced over the wall for a home run and the Joe Niekro emery board incident.
I feel like the 10 cent beer night and disco demolition have to be on this list, I love the Eddie gaedel story he was not commissioned the 1/8 jersey that was actually the bat boy Bill DeWitt Jr's the owner of the cardinals today.
Love Rick Camp, it's too bad we didn't let this turn into a movie three decades earlier because Tom Hanks would have played the perfect Rick Camp at the time.
I know it was before the game technically but the 89 world series where an earthquake happened and had the world series pause for over a week should've deserved an honorable mention at least. We wanted baseball, mother nature said "hold your horses there"
I would be so happy to see a video dedicated to Ten Cent Beer Night or Disco Demolition Night. Honestly, if I could go back in time for one night, I think it would be Ten Cent Beer Night.
I was watching the game on TV when Rangers OF David Hulse fouled 4 consecutive pitches off into the same spot in the Angels dugout causing the players to jokingly clear the dugout.
You should have 100K subs, easy. Best historic baseball content on YT, and it's not even close. Just as likely to see Heinie Manush as you are to see Albert Pujols or Mike Trout in one of your vids. Everyone _talks_ about "Tinker to Evers to Chance", but you'd be the one to somehow produce actual footage. Fantastic stuff.
The last forfeited mlb game. Cardinals at Dodgers 1995. It was Souvenir baseball night at Dodgers Stadium. Fans threw baseballs on the field in the 9th inning disgruntled about the strike zone. 15 - 20 buckets were filled up with baseballs. That was the last souvenir baseball night at Dodgers Stadium. The game was on tv.
Oh yeah, that's on Zimmer.. you gotta know you're 72 years old, don't go after an athlete in his prime or you're gonna get thrown down or seriously hurt.
Oh! I just remembered a game I watched live on TV in 1986! Red Sox vs. Yankees on September 13th, with legendary broadcaster Vin Scully calling the game. Jim Rice and Spike Owen collide in foul territory and end up on the ground for a while. A Yankees fan reaches down and steals Jim Rice's hat. You don't mess around with Jim! Rice hops into the stands, runs up twenty rows, and beats the crap out of the fan to get his hat back. The Red Sox manager and half the team follow Rice up into the stands, and one of them brings a bat. Then as everything is settling down, some other crazy Yankees fan jumps out of the stands and tries to pull a huge padded panel off of the wall and is tackled by the police.
That Johnson hitting the bird thing still boggles the mind. Think about the odds of that. I've been watching baseball for 30 years and it's been around around 150 years and to my knowledge there was never an instance of a bird flying across in front of the batters box as is. Let alone at the perfect time and place a pitch ends up. Those odds are beyond astronomical.
This video is hilarious! Some of your audience may not know that in the 70's it was a huge fad for people to streak. Streaking is running around nude, in public. Thanks for the laugh this morning
I still think Braves Related Bizarre moment was the Press Box caught fire. No one got seriously hurt, but they still played a Game. Not sure what year that was.
Did you consider on Yankees opening day 1978, Reggie Jackson hits, a home run in his first at bat (so technically it was his 4th home run in row. From the 3 Home-runs he hit in the game-winning World Series in October 1977) and everyone threw their free Reggie bars onto the field. And they had a delay the game. - Also 1973 playoffs, with the Mets and the Res, and Pete Rose, starts a brawl against the much smaller Buddy Harrelson at 2nd base. Then when Pete Rose went out to play left field, all the Met’s fans, throw their garbage at Pete Rose. And the Mets were threaten by the ump to forfeit the game. Then Mets manager Yogi Berra, had to go out to left field, and brought Tom Seaver and Willie Mays out there to calm everyone down. (so that’s 4 potential future Hall of famers, involved in that one incident) Not to mention, Johnny bench, & Joe Morgan also there, & later in the Hall of Fame.
Sox/Yanks fight in 04 was the game in July, not the ALCS And Pedro more guided Zimmer to the ground vs throwing. Zimmer was going at his top speed, not sure he could have stopped any other way 🤣
Mitch Williams game winning hit the next day, George Brett goes nuts, Pete rose catches the ball that Bob Boone dropped 1 out away from the out to win the world series, cubs collapse, .....
How about the 700 plus pot plants removed from Anaheim Stadium outfield grass before opening day 73 or 74. The Who did a concert there a month before opening day. A guy with a bag of pot seeds spread them like Johnny Appleseed. They sprouted.
Clemens should have been ejected for throwing the bat in Piazza's path. He through the damn bad right to the spot where he was running. Clemens was a POS anyway who I'm glad is still on the outside looking in to the HOF.
I was watching that Mets/Braves game, July 4, 1985 at my parents home in San Juan 🇵🇷. Keith Hernández hit for the cycle that night/morning. The Mets scored the go ahead rum in the 18th inning and then Rick Camp hits that improbable, impossible, game tying HR. I started laughing and clapping, (suppose I woke up the neighbors 😂). I couldn't believe it, what were the odds something like that could ever happen ? It was great, too bad the Braves ended up losing that game. ⚾
In high school an opposing coach put in a tiny guy to get a walk. His strike zone was about the size of the catchers mitt but i managed to strike him out. Told their first base coach after the third out that if they did it again i would drill his little ass. They didnt.
I think the oddest things I have seen was during Cubs vs. Cards one of h Cards players hit a ball in play and didn't know he it was in play and Willy tagged him on the butt while he stood in the box.
Throwing old people obviously is not a good look but what gets overlooked while everyone was feeling sorry for Zimmerman is that he charged at Pedro with intent. He wanted a fight and well...Im not condoning throwing old people but also maybe they shouldn't take a run at professional athletes.
Yeah and the 'unwritten rule' that pitchers can bean hitters. Reminds me of in high school during gym class when I constantly successfully hit the star pitcher of the school baseball team. He ended up purposefully drilling me in the ribs, twice. Gym teacher did nothing and I got back at him by telling him he'll never make the big leagues, and of course he didn't. I went on to work in Silicon Valley, retired in my 40s, and he probably is in some boring desk job or selling women's shoes like Al Bundy. Ah glory days!
Great list Only a few snubs Vuzavela night Marlins make the veecks proud with giving away thousands of horns then making the place sound like a torture chamber Mets v giants ppd FOG WORLD SERIES Earthquake Crying in baseball: the Wilmer Flores incident social media gone mad
Good lost but several of them like Piazza incident, I wouldn’t call this wacky or unusual. I’m sure it happened before and will happen again. How about Metkles Boner? Or the tome two balls were in play at once? Or the Dodgers getting 3 men stuck at 3rd? Or how about the usassisted triple play in the WS? Yes your mind obviously doesn’t go beyond the 1950s
I would be shocked if another pitcher actually ended up with a sharp shard of the baseball bat and threw it towards the batter... what a pyschopath.. I'm sure yes, broken bats have ended up in the pitchers hand and will again, but for them to throw it at the batter?! Wow..
@@HummBabyBaseball How about Merle's Boner? This play actually almost stopped the cubs from going to the World Series and the spectical of trying to find the baseball and did he touch second and then a protest. The only thing I saw close to this was a bases loaded walk to end the game and Kingman went from second into the dougout and an argument ensued but Kingman was right, the rules stated that in this situation a player has to touch home and a player has to touch first.