In baseball, the batter needs to worry about the pitcher hitting them in the face with the ball. In Pesapallo, the pitcher needs to worry about the batter hitting them in the face with the bat
That could only happen if the batter decided to immediately hit before the pitcher has even done anything. The ball is thrown high in the air and there is good time to step aside before the ball drops back and needs to be hit.
It was great to be part of this project and help this piece get made. If you want to know more, I write the only blog and podcast in English about pesäpallo! Including exclusive interviews with star players and legends of the game
It would have been great to hear a little about the rules. Obviously I noticed the runners going left after hitting, but also seeming to come "home" from the same direction. If you have a video explaining the rules, I'd love to check it out! (I had never heard of this, despite being an ESPN 8 fan)
At school, I was one of the guys nobody wanted to pick. Especially during secondary school, I was a bit heavier guy and I didn't like sports, I preferred playing runescape at home. But when it came to pesäpallo, it was a bit different - I was one of the better players and it made my day when I was picked among the first ones. :D To this day, this is still my favourite team sport!
Same. I was one of the first ones picked for pesäpallo since I could hit the ball so far away (since we didn't use the backfield rule which makes it an illegal strike if the ball passes the backline without hitting the ground first).
@@Lonewolfmike hitting Home Runs is a totally different thing in pesäpallo, since the ball cannot be batted as far as possible. If the ball lands outside of the playing area it is an illegal strike. The pitch is obviously easier to hit in pesäpallo, but the pitchers don't make it easy to strike accurately with full force.
@@Lonewolfmike hardest pesäpallo hitters can create velocities over 180kmh. When you also consider that pesäpallo is 12% heavier than a baseball, I really can't see a reason why a baseball player would somehow hit the ball way harder.
As a Finn I have to disagree a bit. I like the game, played it in school like everyone else. I even watch a random match from TV once in a while. But what the guy said that the players are "superstars in Finland"... I'm a sports fan and I follow all kinds of sports. I know two pesäpallo players by name. One famous player and one who is a friend of mine. 😂 But still this was a great piece and I love that you made this!
That's what you disagree with?!?! How about the fact that it was said they could play in MLB? That's ludicrous at best. This sport completely sidesteps the element that makes baseball the hardest sport of all.
@@attesalomaa3768 Only one football player? Wow! You clearly are a bigger fan of pesäpallo than football and good for you. In no matter my comment was a diss for pesäpallo or fans of the game. I still think most of the Finns know more footballers, ice hockey players etc than pesäpallo players. :)
I've seen some videos of Finns training and playing baseball, and they do amazingly well, excellent to say the least. It's good that this beautiful sport is seen beyond the Atlantic (Netherlands, Italy and Israel also play very good baseball).
One reason is that we play pesäpallo in school P.E. classes from grade 1 up to sr highschool so most people have at least some experience of playing pesäpallo. Just like US and Canadian ppl play baseball in school P.E. class In adaptation from pesäpallo to baseball the biggest challenge is to learn to hit ball that comes towards you VS is thrown upwards next to you.
Btw, it was not mentioned in the video, but Itä-Länsi means East-West. Finland has culturally been somewhat divided into western and eastern Finland, so naturally the all star game represents that difference, but at the same time celebrates the unity of Finland as nation.
Thanks to that Finland has two cultures - Eastern and Western ! We eat Different Food - talk differently - think differently - so ITÄ MEETS LÄNSI - is a battle of Cultures !
How is it divided east and west when it's such a long country? It seems it should be divided north and south, since there is probably more differences between north and south.
@@nofurtherwest3474 It's because there were few people living in the Northern Finland for most of our history (still there are far less than in the south) and therefore when the cultural differences were established, Finland was not really that long northwise. Also, even more importantly, the differences come from Finland being sort of between Western Europe and Eastern Europe, which meant that Western Finland got more influence from the west and Eastern Finland from the east. Even christian faith was brought both from west and the east, which meant that most people living in easternmost parts of Finland were orthodox christians before Sweden conquered those lands. East Karelians, who are the closest relatives to Finns, are of course still orthodox for that reason.
Try the sausage and coffee between periods! Also watch some full games before hand. Assuming that you understand regular baseball..these few games will teach you about fundamental differences between games. You might not know everything, but you'll know enough to enjoy.
Dear MLB, at some point can you for charity or something mic up a couple of baseball teams worth of MLB players and have them play Pesapallo for an afternoon?
@@monni362 Let's be honest, MLB players would probably absolutely wash the best Finns after a day of getting used to pesäpallo... But it'd definitely still be cool to see.
@Ziwuri13 I don’t think it would be exactly like that. Growing up playing both pesäpallo and baseball, pesäpallo is a placement game and baseball really is a power game. I’m sure that they would catch on quite quickly, however it’s the little things and quick pace that would take the mlb player’s a bit longer to grasp
The pitching seems to be a deal-breaker here. Obviously hitting the ball is easier in pesäpallo, so there is a major restriction to hitting the ball: If the ball lands outside of the playing field, it is an illegal strike. In pesäpallo the batter must find space for the ball within the playing area and aim accurately and consistently. Batting in short: Will the batter hit the ball in baseball? Where will the batter hit the ball in pesäpallo?
And on the pitcher's side: in baseball the pitcher is taking his time, more often than not intentionally slowing the game down, while in pesäpallo the pitcher tries to keep a high tempo. Both still have the same goal: force the batting team take bad decisions and easy hits.
Thanks, the brief summary of the difference between what the picture and the batter try to do really help. Although I don't know if Runners can steal bases like in baseball - you have to love what spell checker tries to do with foreign words :-) - without men on base and especially before so much television, pitchers tended to work a lot faster in baseball too.. it's one reason I don't enjoy baseball as much now as I did in the '80s and 90s.
@@pyrylehtonen-caponigro3198 There are no international standards for "city" - except within the EU. By the EU standards Lahti (and e.g. Espoo) is a city, by the British flexible and approximate standards probably not - and Espoo definitely not. In the USA a "city" is roughly the same as the so-called "old towns" used to be in Finland, but that concept doesn't exist anymore. However Lahti was the newest "old town". In both the UK and the USA there are some extremely small cities, so size alone does not define a city. Summa summarum - I would call Lahti as a city.
Pesäpollo! I came across this game only very recently, and there's so much to love about it, haha. Thanks again for making these awesome videos. I'm really digging these MLB Europe stories 🔥🔥🔥
I was never good at sports in school, but I was a mean batter in pesäpallo. One of my core memories of those times was watching the opposing outfielders take several steps back when it was my turn at bat.
They do know pesäpallo outside of Finland, there is actually world cup in pesäpallo, and even though it has been held almost everytime in Finland in 2019 it was in India. Finland has won 27 gold medals on pesäpallo and Australia is the second best pesäpallo country with 11 silvers and 8 bronze medals. Also Sweden has won many silvers and bronzes on pesäpallo. Other notable countries: Germany, Switzerland, India, Bangladesh, Estonia, USA, Japan and so on. So yeah actually pesäpallo even though it ain't as big of sports as baseball is also bigger than you think.
Actually there has been 10 world cups but women's series has been involved only 8 times and mixed teams 9 times. Finland has won all those tournaments so there is total 27 gold medals for Finland.
This is only the 2nd video I've watched after learning about Pesapallo about 15 minutes ago. While I was thinking about what it would be like to git, after watching a video about the rules, I realized that playing defense would be insane. The hitter doesn't have to run to 1st Base or even run at all! The hitter can "strike" the ball and NOT run to a base and try again! Or the hitter can run directly to "3rd base" and score a run and stay there and come home and score another run! Much more strategic than American baseball!
@@pyrylehtonen-caponigro3198 Not entirely true. In pesäpallo, there are highly specialized batters, because for instance number 1 in the order needs to be consistent with getting into first base, but he/she/they doesn't need to be good in hitting trough all fielders. On the other hand, jokers (DH in baseball terms) don't always need to be good running between the bases nor fielding, but they are often great in batting runners home to score runs. In baseball, you of course have batters that focus more on getting contact and others that are just trying to hit as hard as they can, but because there is completely fixed batting order in baseball, you can't really strategize with putting good contact hitters first in every innings and to follow it up with power hitters. It's pretty much just random in terms of that.
@@glendaal67 however you're still looking at a very limited selection, you're not looking for short, medium and long distance hitters. As everything is either short or medium and only the first couple of hitters are good if they hit the ball a short distance
@@pyrylehtonen-caponigro3198 Yeah, maybe, but there is not very much difference in the baseball either. Hitters contribution is basicly combination of OPS (on-base percentage) and slugging (how many bases you advance on average), but every hitter tries to do the same thing. The only difference is that some are more specialized on getting hits and walks and some are aiming at home runs more. In pesäpallo, you have so many different types of hitting techniques for hitting different parts of the field and it's more beneficial for teams to have wide variety of different strengths in batting order to make fielding more difficult for opponent. You can of course make same argument in baseball when it comes to countering pitchers, because pitcher needs to have more variety if there is more variety in the batting lineup. Nevertheless I don't see that as so big part of baseball than I see it as part of pesäpallo.
@@theonionpirate1076 That's true. You have to watch baseball quite much so you can understand it so you can enjoy it fully. I think the most entertaining thing in baseball is speculating what could happen on the field as in pesäpallo entertaining part is what is happening currently on the field.
MLB, please develop content with BSUK that attempts to discover the origins of our sport. Baseball became a noted word in 1755 and played in Walton-on Thames and Guilford in the UK.
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I just found out about this sport and I find it very interesting!
So it’s like basically a version of baseball where stuff is pretty much guaranteed to happen every time someone goes to take a swing…that’s cool. Can’t get over the zigzag base path though…
Like biathlon, pesäpallo is a military sport. Bat is hitting with rifle stock. Bunt is stabbing with bayonet. Throw is throwing grenade. Running and diving is charging in assault.
Pesis is a game far removed from baseball, albeit derived therefrom. The pitching/hitting dynamic in pesis is so different I consider the batter in Pesis not to be trying to "get a hit" but to be "playing shots"; ie he is trying to direct the ball to a location on the field, with a suitable method (high bouncing chopper, laser-line drive, all kinds of crazy spinning bunts), The only things comparable in baseball are bunting(ish) slapping a ball the other way to beat a shift, or trying to hit behind a hit and run. A pesis hitter may have the opportunity to attempt all 3 in one at-bat. Oh and the fact that a passing river is a playable feature at Saarikenttä in Vimpeli, and in general whatever surrounds the field of play is "in play"
It's actually a pretty direct Finnish translation of the word baseball. A super strict translation back to English would make it "nestball". I don't know if the inventor of pesäpallo, Tahko Pihkala, ever exlained the word, but one factor is that Finnish doesn't have a short word for "base" in the same sense English does, so "pesäpallo" was quite a genius word for it.
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If anyone who knows well about this sport, please answer to my question. What kind of skills and technique are required for a pitcher? I heard about this sport recently and it is interesting for me. Being from a country(India) that has a huge popularity for a bat-and-ball sport(Cricket) myself, I have huge respect for other bat-and-ball sports. I know about baseball by watching several sports anime about baseball and sometimes I also watch mlb. In baseball good power in throws and exceptional control are necessary for pitching and also good techniques for throwing breaking balls. So what kind of skills are required for pitching in pesapallo? I am curious about this and that's why I am asking. Thank you.
You obviously need great control for pitches to make the difference between good and bad pitches difficult to see, apart from smaller details the main things are you need to hit the round plate with the pitch and it must arc 1 meter (~3 feet) above the head of the pitcher. There's very different pithing rules with no balk rule in finnish baseball and usually runners go either immidiately after the pitch or a tad after to see if it is a good pitch or not, you essentially are baiting runners to go much more than in baseball and trying to throw them out constantly. Also due to needing to hit the inside of the pitch only initially for the hit not to be foul and hitter not needing to run for first after a hit, bunting is much more developed in finnish baseball and pitchers need to be fast to field short bunts for hopes of getting outs. With fast runner on 1st or 2nd it is fairly common to lob a really bad ball several meters towards the base the runner will go towards to so the pither even gets a running start to throw them out after the pitch if the runner took of as soon as the pitch started. With all this in mind, while still a really key position the pitcher alone isn't even close as important as in baseball, so they need to pull their weight in running and hitting departments too, and due to not being as harsh on the body, there's only 1 pitcher per team instead of a ton of substitutes
@@Samsunaattori Thank you very much for your reply. This gives me a good understanding about the pitcher role in pesapallo. The sport is really awesome. Hope it gets even more attention.
The pitcher is from the opposing team. In Finnish baseball the pitcher has a very crucial role. They see everything that is happening in the field and they are constantly trying to read from the movement of the players in the bases, what their next move will be, who's gonna run etc. One example is from the act of "catching a fly". In many occasions, when the pitcher throws the ball in the air, the runners in the bases start to run towards the next base. Their act is based on a mark that their team lead has shown and by this act they aim to improve their probability of reaching the next base or home base in time before the ball. In Finnish Baseball as there is no home run in the sense of hitting the ball outside of the field (that would be a foul), the ball lands somewhere in the field or in the glove of player in the field. A very typical situation is that a player in the field throws the ball to a base and that results in an "out". When catching a fly, especially when catching the runner that is trying to reach home base, the pitcher lures the runners to run without actually throwing the ball/throwing a low ball etc and thus resulting in an "out" immediately, when the pitcher picks up the ball and the home base runner is between bases or throwing the ball to bases 1, 2 or 3 to make an out.
@@artopuikkonen It sounds a lot more complicated than it looks on the video, and somewhat resemble to what MLB pitchers/players do. Thank you for your reply 👍
Lol Imagine baseball players just getting a chance to hit those lob tosses they would blow the cover off that ball,I may be meat riding since I'm American but I see them at least from a hitting stance doing extremely well once adjusted to the delivery
You hit the ball and try to score runs before some one gets burnt at the bases. Three outs and you shifth turns. But you got to keep your hits inside the field.
Rules are sooo complicated with evry detail but shortly: You hit ball and run to base. Opponent who plaus outside tries to "burn" you so you need to get out. Then next people xomes and tries get to field... Look some videos for better experience than my bad english
I've been watching our local games for 12 years and I have no idea still what all the rules are. But the basics are "it's baseball but" and then the but is "you pretty much 100% hit the ball, so WHERE to hit the ball is the tactics." Otherwise some things I've seen, sometimes fielders intentionally let the ball bounce then field it instead of catching it. A catch isn't an out. Foul line also includes all the field (no out-of-the-field homeruns).
@@Perezonator Differences for baseball. Out of bounds is illegal hit. You have 3 hits and out of bounds takes also one away even if it is the last hit. Catching a ball on air with out touching ground is not out, but all runners who were running and were out of base, get's off the field. Out is only when ball is on base before the runner or you are hitting and 3rd hit is out of bounds. You do not need to run after successful hit.
@@pyrylehtonen-caponigro3198 they would do good as fielders though. Hitting is completely different, no wonder it doesn't go well. They would probably pitch good fastballs as well.
@@lbh704 they do pitch good fastballs, however they haven't trained the same kind of accuracy. Also they require training in stuff like stopping on second
@@tyttiMK no. Baseball players slide to avoid tags and to use the base to stop their momentum. Neither of those things apply to this sport. But sliding slows you down. You don't see sprinters sliding across the finish line, do you? It would be faster, 100% of the time, to run through, rather than sliding
@@rhythmjones No, they slide because that's the way they reach the base the fastest. It's a skill that the baseball players don't have. Have you ever played the game? No, you haven't, so you simply don't know how it's done. And the sprinters do pust their head/torso ahead at the finish line, so that kind of proves my point.
A former Pesapallo player has actually been signed by a team in the Australian League. His name is Konsta Kurikka, 21 years old, and a pitcher who has been clocked at 95 mph with room for more as he is still new to pitching. So I think it's at least worth looking into
just have to say that they aren't exactly superstars, a lot of professional players need a job on the side and in most of Finland if you ask a random person on the street if they know any pro players, they wouldn't know.
Yeah Im sure if all the top level pesäpallo players would get offer to play at MLB pretty much all of them would take the deal (if there is not some limiting factors about moving to US) playing one season would make them more money than their whole career in pesäpallo.
Pesäpallo is variation of baseball, developed to become more efficient means to teach combat skills than baseball. Finnish take defence of homeland very, very seriously. In pesäpallo you always dive head first to base.
It's a simplified and drastically sped up version of baseball. Best part of it is the elimination of so many of the pauses that occur in baseball that make the game take 2+ hours but that's about all I can say for it.
Does the pitcher position need any particular skill in Pesäpallo? Seems much less important and challenging compared to Baseball pitching to me. Or am I completely wrong?
Pitcher is the conductor of defence. Pitcher's job is to change tempo, get to know plans of the attacking team, force hitter to fail it's shot and force runner's to take bad starts from base and make them slower that way. You have to know when make a bad pitch, more curvy pitch, really high pitch, really low pitch. Also you have to know/guess where the batter is trying to hit the ball and you do everything that batter doesn't success. Also there are 14 opponents around you shouting and trying to make you fail with words.
I have seen both sports live, and honestly pesäpallo is much more fun to watch. its more fast paced. honestly, baseball was a bit boring since i was used to the pace of pesäpallo.
@@holoholopainen1627 it is played on school yards and in parks, usually with friends or classmates. You don't attend games with professional players since there is no league for it. It's a goofy game you can play while drinking beer.. :)
It would be awesome if MLB Network or ESPN The Ocho could show a Pesapallo match. And, for that Elias Elonheimo fellow who needs to choose whether to pursue baseball or Pesapallo as his primary sport, maybe he could come to America and spread the word about Pesapallo while pursuing baseball or see about incorporating elements of his native game back into baseball. Those changes would at least be better than the changes that idiot Rob Manfred and the current MLB powers-that-be are wanting to make or are making to America's national pastime!!
A former Pesapallo player has actually been signed by a team in the Australian League. His name is Konsta Kurikka, 21 years old, and a pitcher who has been clocked at 95 mph with room for more as he is still new to pitching
Very true, and there'll surely be some promising Finns following his footsteps in the future. Of course it take very much skill, work and determination, but top pesapallo players are legit athletes. MLB scout has followed some pesapallo players and he said there's much potential there in terms of becoming pro baseball player.
In baseball, the batter needs to worry about the pitcher hitting them in the face with the ball. In Pesapallo, the pitcher needs to worry about the batter hitting them in the face with the bat
And that never happens
@@Kerppu68 Yeah, people that don't watch the sport are being experts here. 😂
That could only happen if the batter decided to immediately hit before the pitcher has even done anything. The ball is thrown high in the air and there is good time to step aside before the ball drops back and needs to be hit.
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It was great to be part of this project and help this piece get made. If you want to know more, I write the only blog and podcast in English about pesäpallo! Including exclusive interviews with star players and legends of the game
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When does the season take place? Visiting Finland next year and would love to attend
It would have been great to hear a little about the rules. Obviously I noticed the runners going left after hitting, but also seeming to come "home" from the same direction. If you have a video explaining the rules, I'd love to check it out! (I had never heard of this, despite being an ESPN 8 fan)
At school, I was one of the guys nobody wanted to pick. Especially during secondary school, I was a bit heavier guy and I didn't like sports, I preferred playing runescape at home. But when it came to pesäpallo, it was a bit different - I was one of the better players and it made my day when I was picked among the first ones. :D To this day, this is still my favourite team sport!
Same. I was one of the first ones picked for pesäpallo since I could hit the ball so far away (since we didn't use the backfield rule which makes it an illegal strike if the ball passes the backline without hitting the ground first).
Is there anywhere to play this in the USA?
As a finnish man I would like to congratulate you on a very well done spot on the game and hopefully your audience finds it amusing at least.
Well, I would like to see what would happen if some of the American players who are known for home runs would do to that ball. What is your opinion??
@@Lonewolfmike hitting Home Runs is a totally different thing in pesäpallo, since the ball cannot be batted as far as possible. If the ball lands outside of the playing area it is an illegal strike.
The pitch is obviously easier to hit in pesäpallo, but the pitchers don't make it easy to strike accurately with full force.
@@Mistermies Well I don't think they would like a screaming liner at them as well. You should see some of the exit velocities they can generate.
@@Lonewolfmike hardest pesäpallo hitters can create velocities over 180kmh. When you also consider that pesäpallo is 12% heavier than a baseball, I really can't see a reason why a baseball player would somehow hit the ball way harder.
@@Mistermies They can hit them harder. And these are absolute rockets. th-cam.com/video/4i6gxmu7TUY/w-d-xo.html
As a Finn I have to disagree a bit. I like the game, played it in school like everyone else. I even watch a random match from TV once in a while. But what the guy said that the players are "superstars in Finland"... I'm a sports fan and I follow all kinds of sports. I know two pesäpallo players by name. One famous player and one who is a friend of mine. 😂 But still this was a great piece and I love that you made this!
Aye mane, no shame in hyping your bros mane.
That's what you disagree with?!?! How about the fact that it was said they could play in MLB? That's ludicrous at best. This sport completely sidesteps the element that makes baseball the hardest sport of all.
Well im sports fan and I can name only one football player from Finland but I can name 100 pesäpallo players
@@attesalomaa3768 Only one football player? Wow! You clearly are a bigger fan of pesäpallo than football and good for you. In no matter my comment was a diss for pesäpallo or fans of the game. I still think most of the Finns know more footballers, ice hockey players etc than pesäpallo players. :)
@@Alex-qf9js They didn't say MBL. Just that they could be baseball players.
I've seen some videos of Finns training and playing baseball, and they do amazingly well, excellent to say the least. It's good that this beautiful sport is seen beyond the Atlantic (Netherlands, Italy and Israel also play very good baseball).
One reason is that we play pesäpallo in school P.E. classes from grade 1 up to sr highschool so most people have at least some experience of playing pesäpallo.
Just like US and Canadian ppl play baseball in school P.E. class
In adaptation from pesäpallo to baseball the biggest challenge is to learn to hit ball that comes towards you VS is thrown upwards next to you.
Btw, it was not mentioned in the video, but Itä-Länsi means East-West. Finland has culturally been somewhat divided into western and eastern Finland, so naturally the all star game represents that difference, but at the same time celebrates the unity of Finland as nation.
Thanks to that Finland has two cultures - Eastern and Western ! We eat Different Food - talk differently - think differently - so ITÄ MEETS LÄNSI - is a battle of Cultures !
How is it divided east and west when it's such a long country?
It seems it should be divided north and south, since there is probably more differences between north and south.
@@nofurtherwest3474 It's because there were few people living in the Northern Finland for most of our history (still there are far less than in the south) and therefore when the cultural differences were established, Finland was not really that long northwise. Also, even more importantly, the differences come from Finland being sort of between Western Europe and Eastern Europe, which meant that Western Finland got more influence from the west and Eastern Finland from the east. Even christian faith was brought both from west and the east, which meant that most people living in easternmost parts of Finland were orthodox christians before Sweden conquered those lands. East Karelians, who are the closest relatives to Finns, are of course still orthodox for that reason.
@@glendaal67 Thanks for explaining. Sounds like a nice place, I hope to visit someday
Some of their Pessapallo fielders are legit. Hope Finnish baseball grows!!
they play it in Japan. Or at least used to
@@torpmorp1324 Baseball? It's still the biggest sport in Japan I think, although soccer is growing in popularity there annoyingly.
@@DudeTotally1000 why annoyingly?
@@dualiedan5205 Because baseball is better than soccer.
@@DudeTotally1000 um ok? It's annoying another sport is growing in popularity?
It's my dream to one day watch a pesäpallo game live in Finland, it's so interesting and innovative!
Come on down here. You can stay at my quest house and I take you to the game :)
Welcome..!!!
Try the sausage and coffee between periods! Also watch some full games before hand. Assuming that you understand regular baseball..these few games will teach you about fundamental differences between games. You might not know everything, but you'll know enough to enjoy.
Dear MLB, at some point can you for charity or something mic up a couple of baseball teams worth of MLB players and have them play Pesapallo for an afternoon?
They can't do that cause they'd all move to Finland after finding out how much more fun pesäpallo is😌
Finnish all stars vs Baseball all stars playing Pesäpallo :D
@@monni362 Let's be honest, MLB players would probably absolutely wash the best Finns after a day of getting used to pesäpallo... But it'd definitely still be cool to see.
@Ziwuri13 I don’t think it would be exactly like that. Growing up playing both pesäpallo and baseball, pesäpallo is a placement game and baseball really is a power game. I’m sure that they would catch on quite quickly, however it’s the little things and quick pace that would take the mlb player’s a bit longer to grasp
There wouldn't be enough time to run ad's
The pitching seems to be a deal-breaker here. Obviously hitting the ball is easier in pesäpallo, so there is a major restriction to hitting the ball: If the ball lands outside of the playing field, it is an illegal strike.
In pesäpallo the batter must find space for the ball within the playing area and aim accurately and consistently.
Batting in short:
Will the batter hit the ball in baseball?
Where will the batter hit the ball in pesäpallo?
And on the pitcher's side: in baseball the pitcher is taking his time, more often than not intentionally slowing the game down, while in pesäpallo the pitcher tries to keep a high tempo. Both still have the same goal: force the batting team take bad decisions and easy hits.
Thanks both of you. Good analysis.
Its a lot harder to time your swing in pesäpallo that on your version of it
@Henkka you mean it’s harder in baseball?
Thanks, the brief summary of the difference between what the picture and the batter try to do really help. Although I don't know if Runners can steal bases like in baseball - you have to love what spell checker tries to do with foreign words :-) - without men on base and especially before so much television, pitchers tended to work a lot faster in baseball too.. it's one reason I don't enjoy baseball as much now as I did in the '80s and 90s.
I mean the hype is real in the stands, we love that!
but only in some cities and small towns, it's more of a countryside sport
@@pyrylehtonen-caponigro3198 Finland only has small towns in International standards :D
@@peliintiikerintuot241 well Helsinki, Espoo and Tampere are small cities by international standards. But Lahti for example is just a town
@@pyrylehtonen-caponigro3198 There are no international standards for "city" - except within the EU.
By the EU standards Lahti (and e.g. Espoo) is a city, by the British flexible and approximate standards probably not - and Espoo definitely not.
In the USA a "city" is roughly the same as the so-called "old towns" used to be in Finland, but that concept doesn't exist anymore. However Lahti was the newest "old town".
In both the UK and the USA there are some extremely small cities, so size alone does not define a city.
Summa summarum - I would call Lahti as a city.
@@timoterava7108 I mean more like international colloquial standards, not anything official.
As an American and huge baseball fan Pesapallo seems fun.
Pesäpollo! I came across this game only very recently, and there's so much to love about it, haha. Thanks again for making these awesome videos. I'm really digging these MLB Europe stories 🔥🔥🔥
*pallo.
Pesäpallo is a compound word, pesä means nest (but sounds a bit like base) and pallo means ball, as one might expect :D
@@myfaceismyshield5963 Base can actually mean pesä also :D
One thing I like about Pesäpallo, and a non-Finn person, is the uniforms. Look at all those sponsors! Its like they are wearing a racecar! I love it.
I was never good at sports in school, but I was a mean batter in pesäpallo. One of my core memories of those times was watching the opposing outfielders take several steps back when it was my turn at bat.
Same. I saw a notable change In the distribution of the players In the back field when i grabbed the bat.
I love finding these sports and that they're fully established in these countries.
They do know pesäpallo outside of Finland, there is actually world cup in pesäpallo, and even though it has been held almost everytime in Finland in 2019 it was in India. Finland has won 27 gold medals on pesäpallo and Australia is the second best pesäpallo country with 11 silvers and 8 bronze medals. Also Sweden has won many silvers and bronzes on pesäpallo. Other notable countries: Germany, Switzerland, India, Bangladesh, Estonia, USA, Japan and so on. So yeah actually pesäpallo even though it ain't as big of sports as baseball is also bigger than you think.
Actually there has been 10 world cups but women's series has been involved only 8 times and mixed teams 9 times. Finland has won all those tournaments so there is total 27 gold medals for Finland.
That's an unfair tournament.
@@EM-ic1ypHow so?
Pesäpallo, just improved version of Baseball.
Exactly, much better and interesting sport.
I think it fixes the slow pace of baseball, its a lot more hitting and running and fielding, all the things that are fun about baseball.
@@EverettGuenther for me the biggest part is that batting is much more skill based, instead of just power.
Baseball is much slower as a game,and the homerun rule is different in Pesäpallo..
Still boring, though.
I grew up playing/watching pesäpallo. I realized the speed difference only when I saw my first baseball game. It was so boring lol
Konsta Kurikka from Finland is going to be the first finnish MLB pitcher! He is currently playing for the Abu Dhabi Falcons
This is only the 2nd video I've watched after learning about Pesapallo about 15 minutes ago. While I was thinking about what it would be like to git, after watching a video about the rules, I realized that playing defense would be insane. The hitter doesn't have to run to 1st Base or even run at all! The hitter can "strike" the ball and NOT run to a base and try again! Or the hitter can run directly to "3rd base" and score a run and stay there and come home and score another run! Much more strategic than American baseball!
Every player needs to be a fast runner, an accurate batter, a good thrower and catcher. 😄
thing is that in pesäpallo you want the same exact thing from every player and in baseball you want a variety of types of players
Unless the player is Juha Niemi.
@@pyrylehtonen-caponigro3198 Not entirely true. In pesäpallo, there are highly specialized batters, because for instance number 1 in the order needs to be consistent with getting into first base, but he/she/they doesn't need to be good in hitting trough all fielders. On the other hand, jokers (DH in baseball terms) don't always need to be good running between the bases nor fielding, but they are often great in batting runners home to score runs. In baseball, you of course have batters that focus more on getting contact and others that are just trying to hit as hard as they can, but because there is completely fixed batting order in baseball, you can't really strategize with putting good contact hitters first in every innings and to follow it up with power hitters. It's pretty much just random in terms of that.
@@glendaal67 however you're still looking at a very limited selection, you're not looking for short, medium and long distance hitters. As everything is either short or medium and only the first couple of hitters are good if they hit the ball a short distance
@@pyrylehtonen-caponigro3198 Yeah, maybe, but there is not very much difference in the baseball either. Hitters contribution is basicly combination of OPS (on-base percentage) and slugging (how many bases you advance on average), but every hitter tries to do the same thing. The only difference is that some are more specialized on getting hits and walks and some are aiming at home runs more. In pesäpallo, you have so many different types of hitting techniques for hitting different parts of the field and it's more beneficial for teams to have wide variety of different strengths in batting order to make fielding more difficult for opponent. You can of course make same argument in baseball when it comes to countering pitchers, because pitcher needs to have more variety if there is more variety in the batting lineup. Nevertheless I don't see that as so big part of baseball than I see it as part of pesäpallo.
It is by far the funniest game to play with friends
Pesäpallo is just so much more entertaining than Baseball... It is full of action.
Baseball's slowness is what makes it suspenseful. But, if you don't get it, that's fine
@@theonionpirate1076 That's true. You have to watch baseball quite much so you can understand it so you can enjoy it fully. I think the most entertaining thing in baseball is speculating what could happen on the field as in pesäpallo entertaining part is what is happening currently on the field.
@@theonionpirate1076 Baseball is like watching soccer and Pesäpallo is like watching basketball.
@@nihilist1680 awsome referral!
MLB, please develop content with BSUK that attempts to discover the origins of our sport. Baseball became a noted word in 1755 and played in Walton-on Thames and Guilford in the UK.
I just found out about this sport and I find it very interesting!
We need to get real baseball in Finland and real Pessäpallo in America!
we have american baseball in finland you squid lol
@@skatefire55 But It needs to be as popular as Pessäpallo or else it doesn’t matter!
@@mike-0451 No. Pesäpallo is our part of our culture. Keep yours off.
@@no8592 What? So we can’t play Pesäpallo because you play it even though it’s based off of baseball, which is our sport?
@@mike-0451 Don't listen to this. Baseball is a great game and I would love to see it gain more popularity here in Finland!
Pitching being easier, it makes it more tactical and faster paced.
Therefore allround more interesting
Easier = lightwork
Easier = bad sport
I ❤️ 🇫🇮🥎 Pesäpallo! Peter from Switzerland 🇨🇭
People in Finland are good at motorsports, obviously
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Keke Rosberg, Mika Hakkinen, Heikki Kovalainen, Kimi Raikkonen, and now Valtteri Bottas!
Thx for this MLB!
So it’s like basically a version of baseball where stuff is pretty much guaranteed to happen every time someone goes to take a swing…that’s cool. Can’t get over the zigzag base path though…
Excellent finspelinig all aroud. Nice!
Like biathlon, pesäpallo is a military sport. Bat is hitting with rifle stock. Bunt is stabbing with bayonet. Throw is throwing grenade. Running and diving is charging in assault.
Pesis is a game far removed from baseball, albeit derived therefrom. The pitching/hitting dynamic in pesis is so different I consider the batter in Pesis not to be trying to "get a hit" but to be "playing shots"; ie he is trying to direct the ball to a location on the field, with a suitable method (high bouncing chopper, laser-line drive, all kinds of crazy spinning bunts), The only things comparable in baseball are bunting(ish) slapping a ball the other way to beat a shift, or trying to hit behind a hit and run. A pesis hitter may have the opportunity to attempt all 3 in one at-bat.
Oh and the fact that a passing river is a playable feature at Saarikenttä in Vimpeli, and in general whatever surrounds the field of play is "in play"
i dont really care much about pesäpallo but we always go to see a game or two during the summer with my family, since ice hockey is on break :D
The sport sounds like how an Italian would say baseball
It's actually a pretty direct Finnish translation of the word baseball. A super strict translation back to English would make it "nestball". I don't know if the inventor of pesäpallo, Tahko Pihkala, ever exlained the word, but one factor is that Finnish doesn't have a short word for "base" in the same sense English does, so "pesäpallo" was quite a genius word for it.
Everybody in Italy knows IL Solo Italiano - Olen suomalainen !
as wild as this looks, seems like an exciting sport
at a buffet, i personally sneak corndogs into the buffet so others can enjoy them. I hide 6 corndogs in my jacket pockets. it then, is a joy for me to see other patrons of the establishment eat my corndogs thinking they were part of the buff
Looks pretty cool. I'd like to try it.
I remember it was called Boboll watching it on finnish tv channel in Sweden.
If anyone who knows well about this sport, please answer to my question. What kind of skills and technique are required for a pitcher? I heard about this sport recently and it is interesting for me. Being from a country(India) that has a huge popularity for a bat-and-ball sport(Cricket) myself, I have huge respect for other bat-and-ball sports. I know about baseball by watching several sports anime about baseball and sometimes I also watch mlb. In baseball good power in throws and exceptional control are necessary for pitching and also good techniques for throwing breaking balls. So what kind of skills are required for pitching in pesapallo? I am curious about this and that's why I am asking. Thank you.
You obviously need great control for pitches to make the difference between good and bad pitches difficult to see, apart from smaller details the main things are you need to hit the round plate with the pitch and it must arc 1 meter (~3 feet) above the head of the pitcher. There's very different pithing rules with no balk rule in finnish baseball and usually runners go either immidiately after the pitch or a tad after to see if it is a good pitch or not, you essentially are baiting runners to go much more than in baseball and trying to throw them out constantly. Also due to needing to hit the inside of the pitch only initially for the hit not to be foul and hitter not needing to run for first after a hit, bunting is much more developed in finnish baseball and pitchers need to be fast to field short bunts for hopes of getting outs. With fast runner on 1st or 2nd it is fairly common to lob a really bad ball several meters towards the base the runner will go towards to so the pither even gets a running start to throw them out after the pitch if the runner took of as soon as the pitch started. With all this in mind, while still a really key position the pitcher alone isn't even close as important as in baseball, so they need to pull their weight in running and hitting departments too, and due to not being as harsh on the body, there's only 1 pitcher per team instead of a ton of substitutes
@@Samsunaattori Thank you very much for your reply. This gives me a good understanding about the pitcher role in pesapallo. The sport is really awesome. Hope it gets even more attention.
Have You heard that PESAPALLO IS Played at INDIA too ! There Are several Teams - aswell as at Nepal and Bangladesh !
@@holoholopainen1627 Yeah. I know. There is channel in youtube named Pesapallo federation of India.
Im in New Zealand. I actually learned about this from an American magazine in 1988
this IS LIKE BASEBALL ON ACID
Not gonna lie, that looks like it's a hella bunch of fun.
Certainly looks like a lot more fun than baseball
Interesting 🤔 When you are batting, who play the pitcher, your team or opponent?
The opponent.
The opponent's pitcher is against you when you are batting. You both stand on opposite sides of the pitching plate.
The pitcher is from the opposing team.
In Finnish baseball the pitcher has a very crucial role. They see everything that is happening in the field and they are constantly trying to read from the movement of the players in the bases, what their next move will be, who's gonna run etc.
One example is from the act of "catching a fly". In many occasions, when the pitcher throws the ball in the air, the runners in the bases start to run towards the next base. Their act is based on a mark that their team lead has shown and by this act they aim to improve their probability of reaching the next base or home base in time before the ball. In Finnish Baseball as there is no home run in the sense of hitting the ball outside of the field (that would be a foul), the ball lands somewhere in the field or in the glove of player in the field. A very typical situation is that a player in the field throws the ball to a base and that results in an "out". When catching a fly, especially when catching the runner that is trying to reach home base, the pitcher lures the runners to run without actually throwing the ball/throwing a low ball etc and thus resulting in an "out" immediately, when the pitcher picks up the ball and the home base runner is between bases or throwing the ball to bases 1, 2 or 3 to make an out.
@@artopuikkonen
It sounds a lot more complicated than it looks on the video, and somewhat resemble to what MLB pitchers/players do.
Thank you for your reply 👍
@@bluesmechalo89
Thank you!
I think it's worth mentioning that "Itä-Länsi" Game is "East-West" Game in English.
Please have a match between the best pesäpallo team, and some baseball team
Lol Imagine baseball players just getting a chance to hit those lob tosses they would blow the cover off that ball,I may be meat riding since I'm American but I see them at least from a hitting stance doing extremely well once adjusted to the delivery
@@whitemamba0089 and they would be out of bounds each time with their ”homeruns”
I'm so confused yet very interested in this sport and want to know the basics of the game.
You hit the ball and try to score runs before some one gets burnt at the bases.
Three outs and you shifth turns.
But you got to keep your hits inside the field.
Really interesting!
Why didn’t they explain the rules?
Rules are sooo complicated with evry detail but shortly: You hit ball and run to base. Opponent who plaus outside tries to "burn" you so you need to get out. Then next people xomes and tries get to field... Look some videos for better experience than my bad english
Check Ninh explains pesäpallo.
I actually did that after I wrote the comment…I still don’t get it hahahahaha
I've been watching our local games for 12 years and I have no idea still what all the rules are. But the basics are "it's baseball but" and then the but is "you pretty much 100% hit the ball, so WHERE to hit the ball is the tactics." Otherwise some things I've seen, sometimes fielders intentionally let the ball bounce then field it instead of catching it. A catch isn't an out. Foul line also includes all the field (no out-of-the-field homeruns).
@@Perezonator Differences for baseball. Out of bounds is illegal hit. You have 3 hits and out of bounds takes also one away even if it is the last hit. Catching a ball on air with out touching ground is not out, but all runners who were running and were out of base, get's off the field. Out is only when ball is on base before the runner or you are hitting and 3rd hit is out of bounds. You do not need to run after successful hit.
send a baseball team to the pesis worldcup. see how they do :)
well the function of batting is completely different. I've watched pesäpallo players play baseball and it didn't go too well
@@pyrylehtonen-caponigro3198 they would do good as fielders though. Hitting is completely different, no wonder it doesn't go well. They would probably pitch good fastballs as well.
@@lbh704 they do pitch good fastballs, however they haven't trained the same kind of accuracy. Also they require training in stuff like stopping on second
@pyrylehtonen-caponigro3198 Really? Do you have one on video?
Is there some strategy as to why they are sliding into what seem like "force outs?" The base is big enough to run through. Sliding slows you down.
There is no tagging. If the ball is thrown to the next base and you're between the bases, it's an instant out.
@@kahjotimppa3190 so they shouldn't be sliding. That's what I meant
They reach the base quicker by sliding.
@@tyttiMK no. Baseball players slide to avoid tags and to use the base to stop their momentum. Neither of those things apply to this sport. But sliding slows you down. You don't see sprinters sliding across the finish line, do you?
It would be faster, 100% of the time, to run through, rather than sliding
@@rhythmjones No, they slide because that's the way they reach the base the fastest. It's a skill that the baseball players don't have. Have you ever played the game? No, you haven't, so you simply don't know how it's done. And the sprinters do pust their head/torso ahead at the finish line, so that kind of proves my point.
What’s the difference between Pesäpallo and Henkinfluerkendinken?
Really bold of MLB to show a sport superior to theirs.
I don't quite know if Pesäpallo players could be baseball players. Maybe. I think baseball is on a different level. Pesäpallo is still pretty amazing.
A former Pesapallo player has actually been signed by a team in the Australian League. His name is Konsta Kurikka, 21 years old, and a pitcher who has been clocked at 95 mph with room for more as he is still new to pitching. So I think it's at least worth looking into
@@mattabshier2494 that’s impressive to be sure
Pesäpallo players are used to slow vertical throws. They would not be familiar to the 90mph throws you see in baseball.
This looks fun! I wonder if there are any leagues in the United States?
There is a national team
Ai saatana en ois uskonu näkeväni Pesäpalloa MLB:n mainitsemana
Pesäpallo is a more exciting and fast paced version of baseball
they are really just 2 different sports, they just look kinda similar if you haven't looked into them
Baseball is more popular than pesäpallo
Can we introduce a celebrity Pesapallo game at the MLB All-Star Game please? would be hilarious
just have to say that they aren't exactly superstars, a lot of professional players need a job on the side and in most of Finland if you ask a random person on the street if they know any pro players, they wouldn't know.
yeah well that is pretty much because most of our people are addicted to ice hockey
Yeah Im sure if all the top level pesäpallo players would get offer to play at MLB pretty much all of them would take the deal (if there is not some limiting factors about moving to US) playing one season would make them more money than their whole career in pesäpallo.
Yes Right ! Atleast You know WHO Mr Tahko Pihkala was - as The Founder of The Game ?
i’ll lowkey play this
over a 100 years old!
Would have been nice if this video actually explained how the game is actually played.
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Didn’t realize in Finland they play Squid Game
Pesäpallo is variation of baseball, developed to become more efficient means to teach combat skills than baseball. Finnish take defence of homeland very, very seriously. In pesäpallo you always dive head first to base.
For me Baseball is mainly pitching. Either pitcher succeeds or fails. I enjoy the pitching movement though.
Can they get another sponsor on those jerseys?
The truth is that, like a good Finn, he was wasted the entire time he was in the US and couldn't remember exactly how baseball was played.
There's a small typo in your description. It's Lauri, not Laury. Close enough, I guess.
I had literally never heard of this game before. Interesting. Seems fun.
This is the Finnish version of Aussie Rules just a little more skilful and with more clothing but just as weirdly contrived.
It's a simplified and drastically sped up version of baseball. Best part of it is the elimination of so many of the pauses that occur in baseball that make the game take 2+ hours but that's about all I can say for it.
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Still not exactly sure what the game is if not baseball with a tipoff
Does the pitcher position need any particular skill in Pesäpallo? Seems much less important and challenging compared to Baseball pitching to me. Or am I completely wrong?
Pitcher is the conductor of defence. Pitcher's job is to change tempo, get to know plans of the attacking team, force hitter to fail it's shot and force runner's to take bad starts from base and make them slower that way. You have to know when make a bad pitch, more curvy pitch, really high pitch, really low pitch. Also you have to know/guess where the batter is trying to hit the ball and you do everything that batter doesn't success. Also there are 14 opponents around you shouting and trying to make you fail with words.
Also in baseball you don’t have to go diving to a river
I need the Savanah Banans to take a road trip to Finland.
I have seen both sports live, and honestly pesäpallo is much more fun to watch. its more fast paced. honestly, baseball was a bit boring since i was used to the pace of pesäpallo.
I remember we called this boboll here in Sweden.
I can confirm pesäpallo is boboll på svenska
Dont You Swedes Have a Game of Your own - that IS similar ?
@@holoholopainen1627 Yes, we have brännboll which is quite similar to baseball :)
@@slide-se How BIG IS IT ? IS IT at certain areas - IS IT known - everywhere at Sweden ! Do You Have any YT Videos ?
@@holoholopainen1627 it is played on school yards and in parks, usually with friends or classmates. You don't attend games with professional players since there is no league for it. It's a goofy game you can play while drinking beer.. :)
is there a reason the pitcher doesnt step further back? it seems like theyre asking for a bat to the melon
After watching this video i still have no idea what this game is. How about some rules?
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I have played pesäpallo for almost 10 years in school and i have almost no idea about The rules
I want to be Finnish and live in Finland
It would be awesome if MLB Network or ESPN The Ocho could show a Pesapallo match. And, for that Elias Elonheimo fellow who needs to choose whether to pursue baseball or Pesapallo as his primary sport, maybe he could come to America and spread the word about Pesapallo while pursuing baseball or see about incorporating elements of his native game back into baseball. Those changes would at least be better than the changes that idiot Rob Manfred and the current MLB powers-that-be are wanting to make or are making to America's national pastime!!
MLB, what took you so long? Over 100 years old and this is the first I’m hearing of it. Was this intended to be kept a secret?
A former Pesapallo player has actually been signed by a team in the Australian League. His name is Konsta Kurikka, 21 years old, and a pitcher who has been clocked at 95 mph with room for more as he is still new to pitching
Very true, and there'll surely be some promising Finns following his footsteps in the future. Of course it take very much skill, work and determination, but top pesapallo players are legit athletes. MLB scout has followed some pesapallo players and he said there's much potential there in terms of becoming pro baseball player.
@@erppa20 In other words they are going to start thinking about stealing some players...
what is the surface its palyed on?
Astroturf mixed with sand.
Can you say how fast Finish can trow the ball. :) I think that what they whant on Us
I discover Finnish Baseball. Thank Google!
Pesapallo is Baseballs answer to Trobriand Cricket
no no, whatever you do - don't tell us how the game works, mlb. that would make too much sense.
Perkelen!
Watched this whole video and still don't understand how the game works..
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in Sweden we have something called "brännboll" (burnball) and it's almost the same.
Yeah, we play that in Finland too. Its like a easier versio of Pesäpallo
@@zionist1631Meanwhile, pesäpallo is an easy version of baseball
Where Jomboy at
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Jomboy broke this down ages ago. You are far too late mlb.
Waiting for Jomboy to find this
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Look. No single beer belly player around like in MLB.
however in baseball you are looking for different types of players, in pesäpallo you're looking for the same thing in everyone
There is some bigger and older players too in pesäpallo. Their ball hitting must be very good because they are not good runners.