Olympian Monica Abbott Tries to Strike out Mark DeRosa
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มิ.ย. 2016
- USA Olympic Softball Pitcher Monica Abbott stopped by Studio 21, and was challenged to Strike out former Major Leaguer Mark DeRosa. Can DeRo make any contact? Or can Monica, with the help of a Hall of Famer behind the plate, get DeRo to swing and miss?
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She is so long and has such a big stride, when she releases the pitch the batter must feel like she is just 20 feet away
"I'm Johnny Knoxville and this is the Pineapple Helmet!"
Reverend Benzo Haha! Perfect comment although the result is very unlike Jackass.
Exactly what I was thinking.
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Monica is so awesome I remember watching her in the softball playoffs, she is a beast and I saw some of her perfect games that she threw!!!!!!
Shes the female version of Nolan Ryan.
At what point did she try to strike out Der Rosa?
I ❤️ Lauren Shehadi
simp
extremely misleading title and description
even MLB uses click bait
he looks like john cruk in the all star game vs the big unit
Mark DeRosa is a real life Sopranos character
Love Clemente's poster!
I love MLB network. Lauren should've got in the box.
This is amazing that she can pitch in jeans and on that slick floor
It's amazing with the whip around motion of fast pitch softball that they can do any kind of pitches other than fastballs.
bunch of cunt b.s.
My opinion is that it would be harder to pickup spin
Dude, forget Captain Marvel not flinching when Storm breaker flies past. That dude with the pineapple on his head was a statue.
He had his eyes closed.
Plus one's a movie.
Dero didn't even try! Cmon man. They should've tried at least.
He is not going to take a swing in the studio. He was just standing in the box to see her stuff.
@@stevenygabbyperez695 wouldn't be the first time he hit a baseball in the studio
None of them try bc they're trying prop up softball. If these baseball players start destroying these softball pitchers, then softball won't seem as the legitimate sport that they want people to perceive it as.
Abbott and Osterman were about equal. Both badass softball pitchers.
My favorite player ever
Mark DeRosa makes the show, absolutely love his breakdowns & deep dives (love Lauren too).
Then compare a softball hitter and an Olympian baseball pitcher. It’s too completely different throwing motions. It’s not a mix and match sport. Baseball you look for the ball up high coming down. Softball look for the ball low coming up. You give baseball players a couple months to get used to it they will do better. You give the softball players a couple months to get use to the changes they will do much better. This isn’t basketball where it is the same sport
jack jon see you the first sensible person I’ve seen
True
LEGENDARY MATE@
Hahah, who does not jokes anymore
OMG THAT DUDE GAS BALLS OF STEEL TO STAND THERE LIKE THAT!!!!! Lol
He's stood in the batters box against faster than her
True, but they weren’t deliberately aiming for that head lolol
@@TheJustjim3333 no he didn't
@@Wes-pq4pl so she's throwing 98?
@@TheJustjim3333 she is throwing 77 from about 38 feet away
She is a legend and she is gorgeous
Screw all that. Who's the hottie in the dress?
Brian Clark Lauren Shehadi
She's an athlete and a cute one at that.
Oh god Ik u didnt just say that
Confusing title. Is three balls a strikeout in softball? Cause in baseball, it's one away from a walk.
She was deliberately pitching away
Jeff Yeah, in the next zip code...
It was responsible for her to not risk hitting him on a pitch that got away from her (even Maddux had some slip away), but I agree it was a terrible title
Dero….. Get in the box! Jeez 😂. It’s not Odalis Perez pitching 😂
So much clickbait in this title. After Dero stepped in only one of those was an actual strike. And her talking trash about Smoltzie not catching it when he has the wrong glove makes her sound like an 8 year old.
I've played both hardball and fast pitch. Hardball, the pitchers' mound is 60' 6", Fastpitch is 40'6". The trick is to not swing for the fences and the ball is bigger, white for the men's yellow for the women.
Fast pitch is 43’ away
i love me some monica abbot shes awesome
Maybe even better than Cat
She comes Hollister ca.
I thought her change up was gonna hit him in the head 😂
She puts it in the same spot every time. Has a completely different delivery. She is so tall, I could see it easily from the stands when I saw her pitch for the Bandits.
That wouldn't fly in baseball. People would hit it. Ive been watching for pitchers tipping since I was 9. Im kinda not normal. I can also see the laces in the pitcher's hand and really few other players and coaches think that's possible.
The thing is the heat is SO fast and nasty that everyone is afraid. Hitters need confidence. That's tough when her gas is equivalent to about 105 mph with a baseball
she looks like she's 30 feet away.
tomitstube 43ft
If it hasn't already happened, MLB Network needs to start airing NPF games in the future!!!
"NPF"?
@@johnnyspeed8852 National Pro Fastpitch.
The guy didn't take a single swing, he didn't even try, WTH? The hosts are incredibly rude for wasting her time like that. At least try to hit it, jeez.
Very funny 😁
She's dangerously freaken good. WOW !
Monica is beautiful.
DeRo would crush that
She’s going like 50% and she’s hitting like 60. Lmao
The swing is the same in baseball or softball, doesn’t matter
Fucking hell the speed difference with the changeup
cant find ONE decent comment here.
I wouldn’t dare try to catch that
he obviously wasn't trying it's indoors
Right? And what would be the point? Either he gets embarrassed, or he runs the risk of embarrassing her.
@@brianlsexton or run the risk of breaking hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of production equipment???
I want a legit baseball batter vs softball pitcher
The record for the fastest softball pitch was 77mph...
Was he supposed to try and hit al of those balls?
Ev he's inside he cant. Unless he wants to pay for damages
wow throwing from 30 feet
2A Forever 43 feet
Hope Taylor look at the floor and figure it out for yourself
43
Honestly though where could he hit the ball inside
Nowhere same as outside
I watch Jennie Finch strike out a few MLB All stars
@@michelemcdaniel6032 Lol that's a retired MLB pro. If he could get the timing for a...SMALLER baseball at a higher speed enough to be a pro...I'm pretty sure he'd eat her stuff up.
not one of them were were in the strike zone
Lol the first one was at smoltzes face crouching that's letters watch it again before spewing shit.
+Congo Parrot the fuck, why is she trying to paint corners, just throw it down the middle. why would he be trying to hit in the studio anyway
+Supreme_Suppresser 3407 with no warmups?
+Congo Parrot she's throwing underhand
she would get shelled y AA hitters
Monica 🐐😊
take all of those ya ya
HE'S NOT CATCHING HIS FIRST RISER ...........OR THE SECOND
ESPECIALLY IF IT'S NOT HIS GLOVE - CERTAINLY BECAUSE IT WASN'THIS TRADE.
Click Bait
Such a dominant pitcher. I think anyone who’s seen her would agree with me. All ball players (baseball or softball) have a tough time hitting certain pitches sometimes. It doesn’t mean one sport is harder than the other.
Not saying that fastpitch softball is easy, but baseball is still much harder
Courtney H different throwing motions. Softball closer mound, Ball low to high. Baseball farther away, ball high to low. You have to give people time to adjust to the different throwing motion. A highschool baseball player would have a better chance hitting a cy younger winner than hitting her or one of the most famous Jenny finch. Just like a highshool softball player would do much better hitting her or Jenny than hitting a cy young winner.
@@jackjon7763 Hitting that big softball is a lot easier.
@@jackjon7763 Barry Bonds got challenged by Jenny. He saw and took her drop ball and said
"that moved a lot. Doesn't matter. Was a ball." She said she has a rise ball. He said if she throws it, he will tomahawk it. She did.
The difference between other baseball hitters facing her and him is... He's the #1 hitter that pitchers fear.
She should have lied to him about what she was throwing. I don't really think the result would have changed.
Ted Williams never swung at a particular pitch the first time he saw it from a pitcher. He said that you should see how it moves so you can get a good swing on it.
Barry put the first one that got EVERYONE out 400 ft
@@samuelrivera5611 You have it backwards. The pitcher is much closer. The ball is heavier. The bats are lighter. The yellow ball makes it way tougher to pick up the laces and spin than on an off-white baseball. It is bigger and heavier. The size and extra mass doesn't help you hit the ball in the center and Square; that's not how physics works.
Sure, it's not moving as fast but the rest adds up to make it as hard, if not harder to hit. Someone that is crafty like Cat Osterman is really tough to get hits on
i love how he said okay let me step in there...... and then proceeds to stance up 10 feet from the plate.
this demonstration really isnt realistic. at mlb distance shed get demolished. at this shorter distance yeah.... difficult.
whats the point of your comment? they don't pitch softball from 60 feet you moron.
it's a demonstration ...geez and iits softball now baseball geez
T C the point? to trigger paper skinned twats like yourself that troll the comment sections of various videos in a pathetic drive to improve their self esteem and defend softball as if it requires the same physicality and skill as baseball which is ludicrous. have a nice day :)
MLB needs to clickbait? Smh
question.................. monica abott is a superhuman athlete. but 6 perfect games??? that seems like something is wrong. Should the mound be moved back???
mikezissou she also pitches illegally and idk why she’s not called on it. But if they moved it back for her and theyd have to move it back for everyone else and it would be a mess cause you’d have to change the rules.
It really is a little too close , I never understood that about the sport
Hope Taylor how does she pitch illegally?
highwaymaintainer I’ve never understood why they play in little league fields. I swear 60 ft bases way too close. These college girls are halfway down the line before the ball passes the pitcher. They hit the ball so hard the infielders are starting to where those masks everywhere.
Click bait
Almost none of those were strikes and the dude had a baseball mitt on. Making fun of him and praising yourself for pitching fast just because he couldn’t catch it was dumb
She was throwing nowhere near as hard as she normally does and she wasn't trying to strike him out.
@@marydaniel5 I know she wasn’t because she wasn’t warm and was wearing nice clothes. Still wasn’t disproving me that the wrong mitt has an effect
Smoltz indicated more than once that the glove sucked and she was still banging on him. Lame.
She's about 25 / 30 feet away? That's insane, softball is like what 42 / 45 feet away and baseball is 60+ feet away. I have hit 92 mph, if I threw 92 mph from 25 / 30 feet away, no one could hit it....
Softballs have a lot more air resistence and not as much mass. They would slow down too much in air if thrown from farther away. A 92mph softball thrown from 60 feet away would be too slow by the time it reached the plate. That's why it's a silly sport. They're top college and olympic athletes. Give them a real damn baseball and let them play. I like softball, but that's because I'm in terrible shape. My sister was a great baseball player and she hated softball.
@@Sam_on_TH-cam softballs actually weigh more than baseballs. And if you translate 60mph from 43ft it's basically like a 92mph fastball from 60ft. That and ball moves the opposite direction from a baseball since it's thrown underhanded.
@@scottyhaines4226 I didn't know they were heavier, thanks. But they do have significantly more air resistance, which is proportional to the radius squared. I would be very surprised if the travel time to the plate were actually equivalent to a 92mph fastball. Maybe it is, I don't know that much about it, but I'd be surprise.
I know my sister was a great baseball player in little league (where she was the only girl) and wanted to play in high school. They reluctantly agreed to let her try out, but said she wasn't good enough. She insists she was better than a lot of the guys on the team and I 100% believe it. They told her to play softball instead. She told them to go to hell.
Nothing wrong with softball if that's what you want to play, but it would surprise me if, given the choice, a large majority of top softball athletes wouldn't have preferred baseball.
@@Sam_on_TH-cam an elite fast pitch softball pitcher can around 65. From 43ft that's crazy fast
@@scottyhaines4226 I know in baseball, that speed is measured a few feet after the ball leaves the hand. It isn't the average velocity or the velocity at the time it reaches the place. Don't know of the same is true in softball or what the speed works out to be at the end when you do the math.
I know I couldn't hit it though.
Legs
Richard Dobson thighs
Richard Dobson The truth is many women's softball players have great bodies. The truth is also that many also prefer the company of other women over a stiff pecker. It may not be politically correct to say, but it is the truth. To each their own.
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Hey Monica used to be my neighbor
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If sea biscuit was a softball pitcher.
Her looks aren't important she rocks a softball
They never really released the ball from the pitcher's bound rubber they're usually at least 5' in front of it when they would ease it. The all time greatest fast pitch softball pitcher would have been Eddie Feigner. He would actually release the ball from the pitcher's mound but not from the women's pictures mountain from a MLB pictures mount and pitch it from 2nd base at times he can ofset times he could also pitch it behind his back and strike you out. The king and his court were the most amazing softball demonstration ever.
THE MILLION-DOLLAR ARM!!!! 🥎🥎🥎
If the NPF has a team in St. Louis, Monica might have one of the fastest arms in the Midwest!!!
All balls
She looks like Mr. Ed
This is silly
"You can put it on the boooaaarrrrd yeah"
Where is the video of a girl hitting a 95 mile an hour fastball??
Doesn't matter how fast the ball is going when it crosses the plate, as much as how long you have to get the bat around on it. A 68mph softball pitched 43 feet from the plate gets there in exactly the same amount of time as a 95 mph baseball pitched from 60 feet-6 inches. You'll see the ladies hitting 70+ mph softball pitches in any NCAA Division 1 game.
There's a tee-shirt out there that says: "Yeah, I throw like a girl. Try to hit it this time." Don't think it's the same? Well, step into the batting cage, slugger, and try it some time. Let us know how you do.
Eric Coleson so with your mindset, little league World Series players play at a higher degree of difficulty because they may face a pitcher throwing 75 mph on 45 feet. I don’t care what the equivalent is, it would be harder to hit 96 mph in the mlb than 75 from 45 feet.
@@williamhandjis86 Nah: If I meant "harder to hit", I'd have said that. The Little Leaguer's 75mph fastball isn't going to have the motion of a 95mph MLB pitch, nor is the breaking ball going to displace as far or quickly. Otoh, the softball's diameter and density and the point of release on a 70mph underhand pitch lead to some dynamic differences that might come as a surpris to the MLB hitter, and he'll have no more time to figure it out before it crosses the plate.
The claim was that there weren't any girls standing in on 95mph fastballs. All I said was, like as makes no difference.
Eric Coleson fast pitch is hard no doubt. It would take a while for a mlb player to adjust.
Great video with a BS title. Just saying.
That’s ok , but our Canadian men’s A team had 3 pitchers that could all bury that ball into the glove over 100 mph ! And that would be all day long, not just a random pitch ! Her pitch would barely hit 75, still good but…
When two over-weight middle-aged guys sit at home saying how they could hit off of a Collegiate All-American Olympic softball Silver Medalist and then they actually get the chance, this is about what everyone expects. They can't even catch her fast pitch let along hit it lol.
I love it how, even though he has seen much faster pitchers, that both guys talk about how good she is and how it's a blurr and how she needs to throw the change up for mark derosa to hit it and how even if she throws the changeup he still cant hit it....only in 2019 do men have to literally walk on egg shells around women. Hes a pro baseball for what like 13 years? If I was a women honestly I'd be offended
try folkards down hard
Lol she's like 45 feet from home
That's what softball is dude.
Monica was a beast in college, but, come on.
Even a retired Pro like DeRo wouldn't take much to get that timing down. They were just being nice...
Why does MLB Network feel the need to clickbait? Good grief
Her teeth look like Mr. Ed
🐴💬"Waaaaaatt ??"
youre that guy arent you?
Unfortunately, like many female athletes, she probably let it go to her head actually thinks she could strike him out. That is adorable he pretended like he couldnt even see it, when he just didn't want to blast a hole in the roof.
Haha, facts...
Straight up, without the training he wouldn’t be able to hit it consistently. Baseball and softball actually have different batting techniques bc of the difference of pitch and ball. But it would be the same for softball players hitting baseballs. But leave it to an omega guy to try and diminish a woman’s accomplishment. Reply when you make it pro in a sport
@@arygasca9444 Except he is a pro baseball player and has more training than her. That excuse is what any high schooler uses when comparing the two sports.
There was no strikeout attempt and obviously he would have destroyeddddddddddddddd her pitch if given a chance to swing
Je s uh no... have you seen the mlb vs softball pitchers before? Advantage softball pitchers
wakawaka1976 advantage whoever has more experience in their sport. Baseball does horrible different spot to pick up the ball. Different ball movement. Low to high. And visa versa. High school softball player would have a better chance hitting her than a cy young winner. Just like a high school baseball player would have a better chance hitting a cy young winner than her. It’s all about training for your sport.
anybody can throw a softball into pineapple 🤣🤣🤣
Good lord. Those gums. I've seen horses with less gums showing.
And what does your wife look like?
@@chkohl1919 Trim fit woman who has some game.... Yeah, someone's jealous.....
She's throwing like 12 mph
Her fastest timed pitch is the equivalent of a 107 MPH fastball
Matt S from 40 fuckin feet.
you try and hit a 70 mile per hour from 43 feet, that's equivalent to a 118 mile per hour fastball, stop trying to act smart
Levi Collins she's also in jeans and in a building that has breakable items
Sophia Rodriguez no it's not dumbass. 70 mph from 43 ft is equivalent to somewhere around 95
people forget that while our balls are bigger, our bats are smaller. while we pitch “slower” the pitcher’s release point is 37 feet from home plate. and, to end the debate right now, we have riseballs.
Sorry. As a middle aged man in need of rotator cuff surgery, i could strike any man out in the MLB if i was standing 30 feet from home plate. How does this nonsense impress anyone.
D Bach as a teenager with severe tendonitis in her entire right arm and foot i don't see how your argument is relevant
Sydnee W yeah just watch sports science videos on it.
D Bach we have more pitches to throw and less time to react to swing and make plays off hits yet we still do it. We hit not everyone strikes out.
@dnnyshdy Then what would you call it when it gets higher the closer it gets to the plate?
I do not understand why they make great athletes like her play a game like softball. That's for middle school and office leagues. My sister hated softball and refused to play it. She was one of the best on her little league baseball team and only kept off her high school baseball team due to sexism.
Now if you WANT to play softball, no problem with that. But I have a hard time believing that most of these world class women who play in the olympics wouldn't prefer hardball if given the choice. And if they were playing hardball in highschool and college, you might see a few reaching the MLB as well.
Sam The fact is that women are not physically constructed to play baseball or throw a baseball nor hit a ball the way a man can. Men have stronger upper bodies. If women could throw 99 miles from 60.6 feet then they would be playing in pro baseball. No woman can do this from 60.6 feet but 45 feet it’s a different story.
@@rc2teach I can't throw a ball 99 mph either. I still liked to play baseball as a kid more than softball. Let them play the game if they want to and if one or two are good enough to reach MLB, fine. If not, also fine.
In hindsight, and during youthful years, girls and boys may play on a Level Field. However, as they mature into men and women, their physicality's come into play. The majority of men are stronger than women, there is no arguing that fact. As for any women who might be able to play in the majors, if it happens, it will more than likely be someone who pitches and throws knuckle balls which do not require high velocity... There have been great women softball players, but if their talents transcended into a MLB professional player skills then they would have been playing in the Pros. I am not one to say Never Say Never, but because of the differences in physicality, chances of women playing professional baseball are limited. But while they are young, I agree 110% - "Let Them Play!"
@@rc2teach I don't know why that would change when they're older. I'm not saying to let college and high school boys onto the girls teams. I understand the average physical differences and while there are exceptions, those exceptions are too rare to make it fair to allow boys on the girls' teams. Though you can allow girls on the boys' teams without issue.
But why would you suggest that girls or yound women should be required to play softball instead of baseball just because they can't throw as hard or run as fast? If you admit kids can play baseball and certainly women are not getting worse at it when they get to be college athletes than they were as kids, why would you make college athletes play softball if they prefer baseball?
Again, if they want to play softball, no problem. But why make them?
I never said or suggested that girls or women should be required or regulated to playing only softball. On the contrary, there are many instances where young girls are more physically mature than certain boys and can out play them in baseball. The only point I was trying to make is that as great and as hard as Monica Abbott is by throwing from 45 feet, she could not replicate her velocity from 60.6 feet. Lastly, not every boy/man is physical and talent enough to play in MLB...
Please replace corny baseball matinee movies with the women's national teams.
She literally steps before she pitches how is that legal?
SOFTBALL BRO
Not anymore but a lot of pitchers used to get away with it
No it's not legal in softball, but if there is no rubber, sometimes it's hard not to step. In a real game with a rubber to push off of you won't see such a pronounced step before the pitches.
Whats wrong with all these sissy guys
Here's an idea...Have her pitch from a REAL MLB pitcher's mound. Sixty feet, 6 inches from home plate and about 2 feet above the diamond rather than 46 feet from the plate from a pitcher's rubber that is virtually level to the playing field. My guess is that she wouldn't be anywhere NEAR as successful.
Chris Bowman hm she would still be successful
Why would she do that? She's a fastpitch softball pitcher and she's dominant. Yes, most professional baseball players could, with time, adjust and probably hit her just fine. But Jenny Finch and others have shown that in small sample sizes that a good fastpitch pitcher can absolutely make a MLB batter look foolish.
Ray Harder Why would she do that? To make herself more credible. OBVIOUSLY she would have the advantage playing on her own field. Now try playing on someone else's field and see how well you do. The MLB hitters went to her house. Now she should go to theirs.
She isn't trying to be circus act. She's an professional fastpitch softball player, and possibly one of the greatest of all time. Did Michael Jordan need golf or baseball to become credible? Is Tiger Woods not credible if he can't dunk a basketball? Her sport is Softball and she dominates.
hey chris, why don't YOU try it tough guy? jesus christ the men commenting on this video are fucking idiotic it's hilarious
Baseball is so freaking boring. It’s best years are certainly behind it..
Who knew a horse could pitch.get her a carrot