Umpire says Rizzo got hit by the pitch on purpose, a breakdown 

lip reading the fans in the crowd is next level man 😂

Coaches and teammates deadpan staring straight ahead while a player slams the shit out of a helmet or a bat behind them is so funny to me. Love it.

Rizzo has so much respect as a player, even from blue. Not many players can put their hands on the umpire while arguing and not get tossed, simply for that.

Always funny seeing teammates keep watching the field, or writing on their notepad pretending someone isn’t behind them cracking helmets or smashing Gatorade. A breakdown of the, “try not to give them any attention” would be great.

I've seen that called exactly one other time. In 1968, Don Drysdale was attempting to break the record for the most consecutive scoreless innings pitched by one pitcher. Not long before he would have set the record, Drysdale was facing the Giants. The bases were loaded and Drysdale hit the next batter (Drysdale hit a lot of batters in his career). The umpire ruled that the batter had made no effort to get out of the way, and it went down as a ball. Drysdale ended up getting the hitter and later got the record (although it was later broken in 1988 by Orel Hershiser).

The baseball was travelling at 70mph. That means he had about 58 hundredths of a second to react. He used that time to rotate his nuts from facing slightly towards the ball to facing slightly away from the ball.

I love when JomBoy picks out a conversation from fans in the stands and it happens to relate to the topic in the video! 👌

Never lose my awe for JB’s lip reading skills.

I have to commend Rizzo for his ability to actually do this...not many people can. When you actually see those major league pitches coming at you, they really are at sizzling speed and look a LOT faster from the batters box than they do on TV.

Heck, that was almost a strike. He might not have meant to, but he leaned into it.

"It's a tricky call." If you're a Yankees fan.

The lip reading the fans is absolute gold. I rewind it and watch it again like 5 times

Do a breakdown on how judge blocked you pls

Umpires definitely need to call this more. I always used to get so mad about batters wearing those ridiculous elbows guards and then just hanging their elbow over the plate... Umpires would never call it.

I love you breaking this down. Was waiting for it!

Always love your lip reading especially when it came out of nowhere in the middle of you explaining some stuff 🤣

It seems to me if you crowd the plate, then you're putting yourself in this situation where you're gonna have trouble reacting to an inside pitch. So, given the inability of the ump to know what's going on in Rizzo's mind, it seems like a reasonable call to me.

"That ball did not even hit Anthony Rizzo." - Angel Hernandez

He watched that pitch all of the way to his leg and turned around so fast to take the base, it was painfully obvious he knew it was coming and did this on purpose. Look at his eyes as the ball approaches, if you can't tell from that I can't help you.

I'd love to see you breakdown Andrés Giménez poking his forearm into path of a ball against the Mariners. The Cal Raleigh reaction alone is priceless.

He's being doing this his whole career, and this is coming from a Cubs fan It's the reason he had such a good OBP with between a .220 and .260 average

Rizzo watched the ball all the way to his thigh. Almost every pitch before that one started behind him and went either across the plate or just inside. He could tell where that ball was going to be and was crowing the plate, all he had to do was lean into it just a little bit. Ump made the right call. Rizzo was doing literally ANYTHING he can do to get on base, including, leaning into a breaking ball inside.

There is nothing better than crushing beers and binging Jomboy videos to catch up in the LEAGUE

Thanks for the post, made my day!!!!

If you don't call this, then might as well scrap the rule. I thought it looked like he leaned into it initially, and the replays make that look even more clear. Great call.

Over the last year got my son into baseball and been helping as an assistant coach. I only ever played one season growing up and my dad coached to, but I'm just not that knowledgeable with baseball. Been watching a lot lately to up my knowledge and enjoyment and I gotta say, I really enjoy your videos and commentary and even the lip reading. Good shit man.

You read lips so well and the commentary lmao! Rizzoli like I'm gone and umps like no STAY RIGHT HERE 🤣🤣🤣

Dude I literally have never been that into baseball, but I'm starting to just because of your videos man!!!

With the angle on this view I doubt the ball is as far behind Rizzo as Jimmy would like.

The ball isn't "behind him." It's a breaking ball shot from a camera to the right of the pitcher - but even then, it's ridiculous ot say the ball was actually behind him. Great call. Love to see it more.

1:03 honestly haven't been in a good mood all day and this made me laugh

saying the ball "starts behind him" LMAOOOO

You had just said he is fearless… he CLEARLY leaned into it. He’s done it before. Just unsuccessfully

Leads league in HBP 4 times, 11 most HBP in baseball history. Leaning into a breaking ball is the oldest trick in the book. I'm pretty sure All-Star and perennial MVP candidate (in his prime), Anthony Rizzo, recognizes the difference in spin on a curveball and fastball. Not hating on the effort at all, but it's not a tricky call. Umps just usually let it slide, which probably the bigger issue with it being called here, but pretty blatant 🤷‍♂️

I've been watching baseball a long time, and I've seen it so many times where batters don't bother to try and move (like maybe 15-20% of the time)... they seem to brace for the hit - which is fair, as sometimes the ball is going to hit no matter what. But the rule does state the batter has to attempt to move. I think the umps need to be more callous with batters that crowd the inner plate area like Rizzo does, and make more of those calls.

I've been a Cub fan for over 50 yrs. I LOVE Rizzo, that being said- he was taking one for the team. He has done that his entire career.

This is Rizzo's whole game. He's just mad he got called out for it. From the pitcher's POV it's absolutely unfair to be charged with a HBP with a ball that's only several inches off the plate.

This is definitely something umpires need to do more of. Rizzo isn't the only one that leans into pitches very obviously.

Ump is right on this call...All Rizzo had to do is step back...he moved forward. Ump made the right call. He crowds the plate and that has good outcomes or bad ones.

he 100% leaned into that lol

Rizzo has been getting away with leaning into pitches his whole career. As far as I can tell, he’s never been called for it. This example isn’t among his worst, but it does look bad because his knee goes into the strike zone as he gets hit in the thigh. He always had this way of moving that gives off the impression that he’s trying to avoid the ball, yet he always moves toward the plate. I’m glad he finally got called for it, but I can think of probably 10 other more egregious examples from earlier in his career where he took an undeserved first base for this strategy.

Rizzo has always been this way. Not quite a dirty player, but if he gets caught, he raves about how innocent he his. Be a man. You got caught.

I've watched Rizzo for years, never noticed that he is barely in the batters box. He moved into that pitch on purpose.

Love your vids!

Best sports breakdowns on the internet! Thanks for all the great content Jomboy!

Boone completely ignoring rizzo smashing his helmet killed me lol

Jimmy you are so great at lip reading people. Amazing talent.

GREAT lip reading. Looking forward to more of your highlights!

i sometimes forget Jomboy is a yankees homer. That behind him take is bull and just a yankees homer take he literally watches the ball the entire way and leans in .

It does look like the ump got this one right. And I’m a Yankee fan and I love Rizzo.

I respect your great ability to read the lip reading of the fans

Seems like a 12-6 camera angle from the outfield would've been highly beneficial here. That angle prob would've shown the break on the pitch a lot better and why Rizzo moved the way he did.

One of the only Jomboy videos where I actually agree with the ump.

Love, love, love that the ump made this call. It should be made much more often. Particularly with the armor plated batters.

That lip reading was on point lol

"It's a bull shyt call "" funny as hell

Looks like a good call to me. It's a tough one but you can't really complain about it looking at the replay

The Jomboy curse is real: Aaron Judge has not hit a home run since blocking Jomboy.

Love this guy. This guy is on point and funny.

Jomboy who tf is catching these crowd conversations?! These lip reads are literally from another planet bro LMAO

Even at full speed it's clear as day he moved into it on purpose. 99% of the time he'd still get the free walk anyway so I can't really blame him for being mad that the ump actually got the call right.

Seeing the homeboy media posted just makes me smile

The "FUCK" at 3:23 killed me 😂

Its mind blowing watching you describe this and you arent describing a player leaning into a pitch.

Rizzo's a pro. Been grabbing first on HBP his whole career. Don't be a homer, J. This wasn't the first curveball from the left side he's seen in his long career. He stuck his thigh out trying to grab another time on base. Got caught.

You don't see this called often... unless you watch a lot of knuckleballers pitch. Not every game, but I remember quite a few instances where Tim Wakefield and Steven Wright benefited from this rule. It's a whole lot more comfortable getting hit by a 60 mph knuckler than anything most MLB pitchers throw.

I think he genuinely moved to avoid the ball, but unintentionally went into the path of the ball. He didn’t try to get hit, but it was the right call.

I was watching this with my dad the other day and after I was like “jomboy is definitely making a video on this”

As a left-handed hitter myself, I can count multiple times where I scooted back to get out of the way of a curveball on the inside part of the plate only for the curveball to end up getting hit anyways. My favorite was when a pitch was coming directly at me and I scooted back about a foot, and it hit my cleat. My thoughts on the call below: This looked like him going into it at first, then I saw that it was a the slower speed and thought he got fooled and how I would've done the same thing. But then I looked at how much he moved in order to get out of the way. He barely moved at all. If he really WAS trying to get out of the way of a fastball at his backside, he would've shot his hips forward and arched his back. Look at how aggressively most hitters get out of the way of pitches that hit them, or even the ones that get really close, or even strikes on the inside corner like Rizzo's 1-0 pitch. Batters tend to give up all control of their stance to get the F out of the way.. Nobody wants to get hit by a 95 mph fastball. They want to get the heck away from that pitch. Rizzo looked completely in control here. Notice how much more he moves out of the way of the inside fastball on the 1-0. In that pitch, his only intention was clearly to get out of the way of the ball. And that ending up being a strike, too. On the ball that he got hit by, meaning it was way more inside, soliciting a much more exaggerated movement, he barely moved his leg. Then he proceeded to get out of the box really quickly fast, and when the ump said he leaned into intentionally, his response was "That's just my foot coming down" instead of something like "I thought it was gonna hit me". If he really was trying to get out of the way, he wouldn't have said, "I'm turning to hit with it." I think the umpire made the right call, something I don't usually say when watching a Jomboy video.

He watched it all the way into his leg... Good call from the umpire.

This entire commentary is next level insight

Rizzo has always been one of the most level headed and kind guys. That's why he could put his hand on the ump. They know he disagrees but won't scream like a child like most players in this situation. He's also had to be this way to a degree because he stands over the strike zone edge at times and he knows its his own fault.

Definitely understand Rizzo's argument and where he thought the pitch might have been, but he's gotta understand that he might get called for that when he stands as close to the plate as he does. That pitch wasn't even as far inside as the batters box and it hit his leg, not his hands or somewhere you'd expect to be more out over the plate.

First time (ever?) I saw any type of "homer" rooting from Jomboy. He leaned away from it because it's behind him?? C'mon! He def leaned into it. He always does it. The issue should not be with this call, but with how rarely this call is made.

Rays fan here. Nothing but love for Rizzo.

0:25 from Rizzo. Is so Big League. Used to picture my self doing stuff like this as a kid.

I've umpired 100's of highschool and middle school baseball games over the past 29 years and I have seen coaches teach players how to get hit safely! I've made the same call just once when a team pulled this crap two games in a row. As the base ump I deferred to my partner's judgement. When I got behind the plate I didn't hesitate to make the call. No matter how much the Coach complained I told him he wasn't going to get away with that crap!

This was the right call and should be called more often. And it’s not just leaning into it, not moving at all is supposed to not award a base too.

The random "FUCK" was hilarious. I've felt that.

I watched Rizzo for years as a Cub and he always crowds the plate and does manage to get some HBP doing so. But I agree here with the analysis. I think he thought he was going to go behind him because its out of his eye line and leans forward to avoid it.

At 1:28, how come he didn’t get tossed for putting his hand on the ump’s shoulder? Even if it was non-threatening, I thought you weren’t supposed to touch the ump during an argument/discussion, especially not on purpose.🤷🏼‍♂️

You’re smarter than that Jomboy…the ball is never behind him…it’s the camera angle. No one has a slider that crazy.

Excellent analysis.

Great breakdown 😂

The first time I heard of a ruling like this was in 1968, when Don Drysdale had his scoreless inings streak going, an umpire ruled that Dick Dietz has purposely let himself be hit by a pitch which would have forced in a run. Dietz eventually made an out, and Drysdale's streak survived.

He's just about standing on the plate when he "Gets out of the way" too. 🤣 Good catch by the ump!

you're good at reading lips, but your interpretation of the mental dialogue is spot.on. 🤣😂

Any other team and Jomboy is saying it’s obvious he leaned it. Rizzo CLEARLY leaned into the ball. That ball wasn’t even in the batters box. Great call from the Ump.

Ump finally calls Rizzo on leaning into pitches, gotta love seeing the rules properly applied

The standard camera view from behind and to the left of the mound is what creates the exaggerated illusion of what you're calling "the ball is behind him". If you looked at the pitch from directly behind the pitcher or directly behind Rizzo I am not sure it would look as dramatically behind him. The point you're making kind of stands but less so.

Had me dying 😂😂 love this shit

And people say Jomboy isn't biased for the Yankees lol. The ball wasn't behind him, the camera is to the right of the pitcher.

I hate the result (Yankee fan) but I'm really glad to see an umpire actually enforce this rule.

When you stand basically right on top of the plate and become well known for getting hit all the time, you don't exactly get a lot of leeway. Regardless of his intentions, the dude straight up moved into the path of the ball. This was a good call.

As a pitcher I find it easy to strike out base crowding. Especially left handed batters and I'm right handed. I put the ball high snd tight to the inside strike zone. The batter chops at the ball everytime.

a pitch two inches away from being a strike shouldnt even be allowed to be a Hit by Pitch, regardless of the rule

This happens to any other team that’s not the Yankees the title would be “ ___ player intentionally gets hit by pitch and called out by umpire, a breakdown”

I look forward to seeing more of these calls. Total bullcrap to see a HBP that's an inch inside.

Great call !!

Jomboys lip reading is incredible.