MLB Tonight Explains Why Pitchers Hit Batters
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 เม.ย. 2015
- Al Leiter demonstrates how pitchers target certain areas of the body when throwing inside at a batter.
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When I was little I asked my uncle Jerry, "uncle, why do they rush the mound after getting hit?" He asked me, "you ever been hit by a 93 mile an hour fast ball?" I said, "no." To which he just let out final, "alright then."
The people that ruch the mount are the same people that go on the DL list for a broken nail. If you don't wanna get hit I'm sure some underhand pitch team would let you play
Yeah, just sucker punch the pitcher in the back of head after the game. That's what we always did.
We put 36 pitchers in the ICU. 14 of them are still there, (they never got better).
That's the best thing pitchers can achieve in life. Dying for throwing balls at someone
These retired pitchers, no matter how old, can always still throw spot on if they feel like it. That recent Red-Bull prank video with Greg Maddux is more proof. I don't know why university-level coaches aren't hiring these guys as consultants to show up for a few days and strike out their kids, teach their pitchers a few things. There are so many retired pitchers just sitting around watching Judge Judy.
AgentFoxMulder Maddux was never known for his fastball.
most of them retire because of injury and they don't want to throw to mess that up. It's easier to do lessons if and when they want.
They don't hire them because they want to charge thousands of dollars an hour
University? Lmaooo Maddux consulted the Dodgers and Cubs in 2016 and 2017.
just because you're a great player does not make you a great coach. Phil jackson was a bench player, John McGraw was a weak player but one of the greatest managers of all time
The thing that amazes me most is how Al can go from a regular baseball, to a super light weight wiffleball, and still throw it in the exact spot, despite the large weight difference. That's not easy to do!
The signs of a good pitcher :)
You weren't a ball player
@@daviddawson1718 i don't remember watching anyone named David Dawson either! Your point?
@@demetriusmiddleton1246 his point is it's not that difficult especially being so close in a calm stress free environment. Anybody who knows how to throw should be able to do that.
@@randomuser942464 ok
Can we just talk about how smooth that trade was from the real ball to the wiffle ball
Dude had some serious sleight of hand going
i watched it like 5 times in a row. It was beautiful
Magician! Had no clue he was switching to a whiffle ball. Scared the shit out of him.
The actual swap was nicely done but it took him approximately a fortnight to get the wiffle ball out of his pants pocket.
you wait for your chance to pull your weapon. Can't rush it or else you'll be spotted
They explained how, not why.
why is usually to send a message to the player or a team that the pitcher and/or his team isn't going to be fucked with.
For those of us who don't follow baseball, we're left wondering why you don't show you aren't going to be fucked with by scoring more runs.
Or you have a pitcher like how Ventura would pitch, and you'd just bean players that played well against you.
no
clickbait stfu
Baseball has a history of unwritten rules. For example, if a guy hits a home-run and showboats it too much, (even by running the bases too slowly!) he might get taken down a peg by a fastball to the ribs, to remind him not to show up the opposing team or pitcher.
Should have had Pedro Martinez on this episode.
he'd say go for the head!!
lmao!!!!
"Please catch these" 3:13 I'm fuckin' dying here man ahahahaha
Met fan right here. Al was a terrific pitcher and he had numbers you'd see from the best pitchers today in an era when guys were juiced up and hitting 50-60 homers a season.
I'm just watching this years later. Amazing that Leiter can still consistently throw wherever he wants. It's a testament to just how good you have to be. Also, throwing a wiffleball with the same accuracy may be even more impressive.
leiter was average too
I didn’t know this was years ago until I heard that Ellsburry got hit
@@thepope9648 career 40 war player, he was definitely not average.
@@dio696 I didn’t know that stat was the end all be all.
@@thepope9648 it isn't, but it's accurate enough to tell you that he wasn't average.
Gets hit by pitch
Runs to the mound holding bat screaming "You picked the wrong house, fool!"
And that, is how you get a hella large fine, and suspended for quite a while
Or an all-expenses-paid vacation at Riker's Island.
Cameron Kohlmann I’ll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda.
Never seen this years ago....these guys are great. And yes, can still put the ball exactly where he wants it. Very nice!
Getting one straight to the thigh is a damn bad feeling. Especially when it's cold out, try to walk it off to first and by the time you get there your leg is dead and you need a backup runner lol.
“Please catch it” lmao
They didn't really explain the "why" but more of the "how" instead. Still, I enjoyed seeing the enthusiasm & chemistry of these analysts, making me interested regardless (and baseball's probably my least favorite sport). :)
Al is one of the most fun guys to watch on that channel.
Not only is that guy throwing pitches years after leaving the game, but he's doing it in dress clothes and a tie. What a man!
That is an awesome set. How would you like to have that as your office?
3:26 so heres Al pulling the wiffle ball out his back pocket
2:08 kids don't do it... it explains a lot
@ 2:10 guy looks genuinely scared and says “kids don’t do this” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣/🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Pitchers who throw at batters would be the first ones to complain if the batter charges the mound with a bat in his hand. Throwing at someone is really lame.
Ricky Stewart Most pitchers don't usually complain when it's retaliation for something
You throw at my team mate, I'm trying to hit line drives at your head the rest of the game.
Comebackers can be a bitch mate.
Ricky, it is quite obvious that you don't know the history of the game. I don't seem to remember Nolan Ryan complaining, however he did have an interesting way to stop someone charging.
Nobody has a problem with you charging the mound. But the bat is a huge escalation of force.
A bunch of gay ass excuses. At the end of the day, you hit me with the ball and you won’t have to worry about the game anymore. Rules of the game may save your ass but the rules of the streets are in effect once we hit the parking lot.
i love how Leiter starts ripping bean balls and Harrold told him to chill
just shows how tough mccutchen was when he got beamed by Chapman out of all people. and he just walked it off. can't stand pitchers hitting battera
@Dakoda Fisher a fastball coming up and in is why I switched to lacrosse in high school. That shit is terrifying. I got injured all the time in Lacrosse, but you never saw it coming. 103 coming at your face is like a car accident. You have just enough time to look fate dead in the eye for a split second and acknowledge that you know you're fucked. I'd rather just wake up on a stretcher and ask the D-line what happened lmao
I know a lot about baseball. This honestly is my favorite thing I have ever learned about baseball.
Just my opinion, as a fan, I don't really want to see someone get hit with the ball, for any reason. I also don't think fighting should be a part of hockey. I watch to admire the superior physical and mental abilities to play the game, not to see school yard bully tactics.
The thing about fighting in hockey is that it regulates the emotions of the game. Guy A does something dirty to Guy B, a one-on-one fight ensues, and the incident is behind them, everybody goes back to playing hockey. If fighting is taken out of hockey like the NHL tried to do back in the '90s, you're going to see a lot more stick infractions which is going to cause further injury.
Fighting is starting to be phased out in the professional level. The major junior leagues are going with suspensions if you go over a certain number of fights per season and it's really starting to show improvement, but it's going to take time because these guys are still under 23. Until that generation of players can prove they can play in the show, this is only an experiment, but at least something is happening to curb fighting instead of just talking theoreticals about it.
haha the laugh when a prank goes to plan
"Please catch it" 😂
Simple rule: Hit a batter, pitcher gets tossed UNLESS the batter charges the mound WITH the bat. Like in hockey where a player is responsible for their stick at all times, the pitcher is responsible for where the ball goes.
Leiter's got some serious sleight of hand.
Wow he switched the ball in plain sight and I totally did not notice at all on first viewing...side conversation got me sidetracked while Leiter transfers the whiffle ball from back pocket to glove. Then the "real" hard ball pitch just before by the whiffle pitch to make it look like it was the same hard ball. SNEAKY haha
so was the question ever answered? as to why they hit batters?
Jon Marsh it takes less time then an intentional walk
Usually bad blood. Walking a batter is a signal that the team fears them at the plate. Hitting a batter gets the job done without showing that
My dad was a pitcher (though he never became pro, he never had the speed, more so just threw what other coaches called "garbage") but he always said that he would usually try to pitch a fastball right inside of the batter to try and throw him off his rhythm and get in his head, and sometimes he'd hit them to sort of scare the next guys up to bat. He wanted them to be thinking "this guy might actually hit me." and have the threat of getting hit sitting in the back of their mind to throw them off their game.
Sometimes I regret giving up baseball in grade 5.
Watching this makes me regret it a little bit less, lol.
Video didn't explain why pitchers do it at all. I don't get it, the players are getting paid huge money they got big careers in the top level, and their intentionally throwing into a batter because of some playground mentality that they are opposite teams so they want to be aggressive and hurt each other? I'm an Australian that doesn't really understand baseball, but for some reason I love watching videos of people getting kicked out of the game so I see a lot of pitchers throwing into batters, but still don't know why they do it.
Nikola Wiche it is retaliation 90% of the time
Nikola Wiche its a way to police the game like if a runner slides to the side of the base hard in order to break up a double play by thus trying to take out the fielder covering the base or if a guy celebrates too much he'll get plunked or to make a hot hitter uncomfortable at the plate.
It's a grown up game!
"Imagine getting hit by this with a real ball."
"I don't want to imagine that!"
Hahhahahaahah!!
You and me both, brother!
I know it's a controversial topic but I can't honestly see how people can complain about bat flipping but think it's acceptable to hit batters with pitches.
Double standard. If hitting batters is okay, hitting pitchers is fuckin HEROIC!
pitchers deserve to loose their careers for hitting batters.
Il go out of my way to hit a pitcher, tell me your a pitcher while waiting in line at the bank, you'll wake up in the ICU!
they explained how pitchers hit batters, but not why
Because sometimes batters need to be hit.
Simple change. Hit one batter on the shirt or higher on the body, or anywhere above the elbow and you sit down for the game. Hit two batters in a series and you sit down for the series.
I think hitting someone with a pitch might just be the dirtiest thing in sports. It’s a cheap shot in a game, that no one supposed to take a shot of any kind.
Next they need to do a segment where they have Pedro show the jiu jitsu he used on Zimmer.
Sucks... towards the end of my baseball days in like 3rd grade, I was afraid of getting hit by the baseball... Fear cause me to stop playing the game... I regret it.
Same. Loved it when I was 6, hated it when I was 8. Little kids don’t have the control down. I never knew if I could trust the pitcher throwing at me.
Baseball is the best game of this earth.
"If a guy knows he's supposed to get hit." So the batter knows?
many times they have an inkling it is coming!
brad h sometimes retaliation
dude is like, stop touching me mr. leiter
That was pretty smooth switch of the ball.
Rip, yordano Ventura
Ricky Grimaldi he deserved to die sorry that bitch played dirty
Some pitches are more likely to get away from a pitcher. A curve can sail into the batter just like it can hang like a basketball and get hit into the upper deck. You're playing with aerodynamics.
Waiting for the day a batter crushes a bat over a pitchers skull.
Best hidden ball trick
MLB network is awesome.
If this wasn't MLB, that would be assault
In my league, there's this really tiny kid he got hit, and he just crumpled, fortunately he stayed in the game and wasn't to badly hurt
Wish I could throw to my coach pitch baseball players as well as Leiter.
The last video I watched was about curve balls, and it's fantastic... this one really bothered me because I coach kids, and I can safely say that none of my kids ever hit a batter on purpose. But just a couple of weeks ago, one of my pitchers hit an opposing player, and they guy accused him of doing it on purpose. If you want to watch players hurting each other on purpose, watch hockey or football. Some of us still watch sports and expect professionals to act like professionals, not boys on the playground.
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There's a time and place for it. If you can't accept that than you shouldn't be coaching pitchers.
Want to speed up baseball? Instead of giving multiple warnings regarding ejections, give a warning that states next Hit By Pitch by individual team (or both teams) = automatic forfeiture of game. You can bet both pitchers will start being more careful.
If you think there won't be another Ray Chapman, you are wrong...
Andrew Hall If you do that it makes the game easier to fix
Al has a sweet looking Wilson A2000 glove.
love the fake out
They're saying the Ubaldo one is really bad, c'mon guys if he was trying to hit someone he'd probably end up throwing a strike!
"Kids dont do this" lmao
Al Leiter got a little defensive there for a moment about 1:25.
Seems like a penn and teller magic trick
Only 2 reasons why pitchers hit batters:
1) The missed by accident.
2) They got their feelings hurt by something and are too afraid to pick an actual fight without their first baseman to back them up.
Remove the DH and make all pitchers bat. Doubt you'll see as many intentional hits.
BovineJustice hardly, bad blood is bad blood, beanball wars happen.
BovineJustice Nah- there were tons of HBPs in baseball before the DH.
a certain aggressiveness...hockey players constantly punch each other in the face.
ryan phillips they are not saying it is a contact sport
The one at 0:47 was not intentional by Ubaldo, no way he would put a runner on in a 1 run game for any reason.
+Wesley DePorter Even Ubaldo Admits It Himself That Was Not Intentional
Wesley DePorter Plus the guy is known to have poor control and walks a ton of batters
If a batter is hit in the head even by accident the pitcher should thrown out of the game
ump can remove a pitcher if he feels the pitcher is a safety hazard.
I think if you try to hit a guy u get ejected. It’s so unsportsmanlike and just so dumb. Ruins the game
How about at all? It's basically assault. Sure you cant prove if it was on purpose but if you cant control your shit get off the field. Hit someone and you're out for the game. It won't happen much more.
Why? Because you're a pussy?
@@WCGwkf says the guy that pissed his pants his first at bat in little league and was running for the dugout on every pitch
They didn't address WHY they throw at batters.
They just talked about HOW they throw at batters
When I played, IF you hit one of my guys at LEAST the first one one getting hit. He better roll with it to lol you CAN NOT allow someone to hit your teammate!! It is NOT permissible at ANY level. Of course You NEVER head hunt!! THAT TI IS UNACCEPTABLE!! But but yeah as a pitcher you simply can not allow a hitter to take away part of YOUR plate. If he puts himself over the plate he is IN PLAY. What do you do when someone squares off to bunt? There is only one pitch. I’m not saying to ever head hunt or try to throw a 90 MPH bullet through someone. But at times it’s part of the game. It’s really not much different in terms of thinking than actually rolling into a pitch when you need a runner or diving for a ball. The game can be about sacrifice. You must be dedicated to the game and your teammates.
It's a grown up game.... but most grown ups don't play lmaoo
Mike Hawk most grown ups can’t play
Baseball is a CONTACT sport. Hockey is a COLLISION sport. HUGE DIFFERENCE.
I think if you his a batter he should be allowed to fight you (kinda like a hockey fight)...
You see a balk is when
I loved this clip but would love to see things from a batters point of view. I have been hit in the head by a pitch and I have to say that it was scary..
yeah it;s a little frightening but so what .
@@2AForever-wi8yj I never truly recovered. Not joking nor complaining. But being 15 when in happen didn't help either. Any other place on the body fine. But getting knocked out is two different things as well.
@ it will increase your chances of more concussions and end careers on high tight pitches that hit the head. But he covered that. My life wasn't ruin but it was changed. I can live with that
Pedro M. can land the ball on a dime with both eyes closed and he hit a lot of batters...
This is actually the reason why my mother didn't allow me to play baseball. The first time, she watched the game live, the very first pitch, the batter got hit in the head and was immediately brought to the hospital.
Your mother had the right idea. Games like football and baseball should be left to professionals who are born with physical size and strength and have a lot of time to practice so they can handle the game without risking serious injury on every routine play. Fun sports for normal peole are tennis, pickup basketball and floor hockey.
Here's a basic question- if you played baseball, got hit in the head, and had to go to the emergency room, who's going to pay the hospital bill?
@@TwoPyramid I get what you say except your question. Every physical sport, even basketball have the risk of injury
@@nogamenolife1901 That is true, you could go to the hospital even from playing pick up basketball. That was a stupid comment on my part. I guess what I was trying to say is that there is a much higher risk of very serious injury or death with sports like baseball, football and ice hockey. And for the recreational athelete and even most 'student atheletes', the risk isn't worth the reward.
Early Wynn...
Softest said words in this segment - kids don’t do this😂😂
They always seem like they’ve been fresh off some hooch
Honestly in my opinion there's no excuse for pitchers hitting batters, especially if you in the AL and you don't have to come up to bat yourself later. It's completely unfair that the helpless batter is put at the mercy of a 95-100 mph fastball and literally can't do shit about it to the pitcher
Except an innocent batter has to the take the punishment, which to someone that enjoys Baseball but grew up watching other Sports (Live in Australia), it makes absolutely no sense. I like a good revenge hit as much as the next guy, but only when it's on the deserving player.
King Chen you obviously never was a picture or played baseball. I’ve had my college coach tell me to hit the first guy because the other teams pitcher hit are #3 batter. I had no problem doing it. It is apart of the game.
Jason Estep tv well screw you
Every sport has it's own version of "the code"-an unwritten set of rules that govern how players conduct themselves, and breaking the code can lead to payback. It's just more obvious in baseball because the pitcher/batter interaction is totally exposed, and literally everybody in the park is looking at it.
In the American League, you can't retaliate directly against a pitcher who hits a batter, because the pitcher never comes up to bat. So, you do the equivalent of what he did-he plunks your number 5 hitter, so you nail their #5 hitter.
And sometimes, you go after an innocent guy because it's the fastest way to stop whatever's going on. Suppose two consecutive batters hit home runs, and they stand there admiring the flight of the ball like they've just spotted a rare bird, and then take a leisurely stroll around the bases. It's going to be a couple of innings until they come up again (and if it's late in the game, they may not come up at all), so the next guy gets hit to let the other team know that they need to knock that stuff off.
The dark skin guy is one of the announcers in MLB the Show
The "dark skinned guy" is a former allstar 2nd basemen
Did I miss the part where they explain the why? Yes they say not every time is on purpose, but some are.... then they talk about where but not why
Hmmm.... I wonder on those times Al Leiter hit a batter intentionally did he flat out lie in the post game presser about how he didn't hit the guy intentionally?
So why do they do it?
it's part of the game
If it is an adult game...act like adults.
Because they need it.
I wanted to know why, I got how.
Zach Ross Misleading Clickbait Title.
"Kids, don't do this."
Im still in the dark about WHY the pitcher hits the batter
And you hit a great hitter on purpose he just comes back and takes you yard and a lot of pitchers don't get that
4:00 "It's a grownup game..." where grown men act like little kids. Lol.
If a pitcher can pitch at a player, in fairness a batter can bat, at another player....built in doubt is a responsibility not an edge. Trade respect for each intentional wrong.
dsrtdawg1 are you talking about hitting them with a bat
I would literally fucking love a game about just throwing shit where you want it to land. Accuracy is so fucking weird to me
I'm a baseball lifer and IMO you should never hit a batter on purpose. If you have beef with a player or team then just beat them. Intentionally hitting a batter is BS and non-competitive. Strike the guy out, throw however many scoreless innings. Hitting a guy is just immature to me and in the long run does no good for anybody. If you hit a guy the other team is just going to retaliate. It's and endless cycle of stupidity. The dumbest part is whichever team wins is then a target to get hit the next time the 2 teams play. If you don't like a certain team or the way a certain player behaves then beat them. Intentionally hitting players is for losers IMO.
Ventura hit batters so fate made his car hit a tree.
He hit everything- even a tree
Because the ball gets away from them
Misleading title: They never explained Why a pitcher would hit a batter, other then on accident.
These guys would shatter their collarbones.
Baseball is really underrated when it comes to physicality and difficulty.
Why?