Basically what the title says. I am from Denmark, know very little about baseball except the basic rules and that the Rockies are awesome.
In Denmark nobody cares about baseball, so I am looking for someone to talk too. Will you talk with me?
Basically what the title says. I am from Denmark, know very little about baseball except the basic rules and that the Rockies are awesome.
In Denmark nobody cares about baseball, so I am looking for someone to talk too. Will you talk with me?
Oh I have no idea what plays are called. But it’s hard not to get excited about that play wow, that Duran guy is cheeky af :p like what are some plays ? I am going to be super naive and ask if it isn’t just to get people on bases and then run them home :p ?
But I agree! Like a super late game clutch hit is super cool. I wish I get to experience it one day :p other than that just a nice clean smack down center field I also enjoy. There is something very clean and enjoyable about it.
Aaaand the YT short is not available outside of the US it seems :p and my vpn on my phone doesn’t do region confuscation properly :/
Haha totally fair and there are many plays, many of which are very similar. I am happy to make you a big list if you’d like, just say the word. But you’ll also definitely pick it up as you watch more. Yes it is get people on base and then get them home, it’s just nuance therein. Like the batter can just hit the ball for however many bases. But there is also a sac fly which is still an out but also advances a baserunner (it’s a fly out super super deep allowing a man on base to tag up which means they wait until the ball has been caught and then run to the next base and it’s a race between the outfielder’s arm and the runner). And you can of course steal a base (any base, including first under very specific circumstances lol).
🤞 for one day!
A clean smack is always great! I love when you can hear off the bat that it is going out. A home run hit has such a distinct sound!
Oh my goodness rude pt 2! lol I’ll just describe it to you. So it’s extras in the last game of the World Series with the home team Dodgers batting, 2 outs with a man on third. The dodgers only need one man to cross home to finished the game but the Phillies only need 1 out to stay in it. The batter hits the ball back to the pitcher on a bounce and instead of throwing to first where there is a force out and will end the inning before the guy on third can get home, he throws it away over the catchers head thus allowing the batter to get to first AND the runner to get home. Of course the man on first doesn’t matter bc the game is over and the Dodgers win the World Series the second their man crosses home. One of the greatest chokes of all time! I honestly feel pretty bad for the pitcher, it’s gotta suck knowing you messed up that bad.
I couldn’t find any World Series games matching your description, but I found this post season one, that shows what you described. And wow what a blunder. Glad I’m not that guy :p
https://youtube.com/shorts/C70C4beANyk
And that is very cool of you! But I don’t think a long list of plays would do me any good. I would on the other hand like to just look at clips or different plays and talk about them. If you were up for that ?
And now it makes sense why they sometimes run when it was an out.! I always wondered why sometimes they weren’t out themselves, but that makes total sense now.
Ah damn you’re right! I misremembered the stakes my b. Ikr it’s probably gonna haunt him forever
Sure!! Do you have one in mind?
Well I only know one play. So how about the sac fly.
https://youtu.be/drl5U6suAvs
Like do you plan to make the play in advance ? Or is it a call the player on base makes on the spot ?
This was very likely planned imo. The state of the game is 0-0, 1 out, man on third, full count. A full count is a ‘pitchers count’ (as opposed to a hitters count) which means it’s slightly harder for the batter to be productive as they have less wiggle room in the count. Therefore, the jays have to be cautious here not to try for too much.
Which is why the sac fly is perfect. The batter just needs to elevate the ball and make strong contact, much easier than getting on base. If you look closely at the batters swing you can see it has a slight upward trajectory to try and get that lift. In contrast, compare the swing to this ground ball with a flatter swing : https://youtu.be/sMKFLZxg1B0
Of course if they are able to get a hit that’s better, but trading one out for a run is almost always worth it.
Is the elevation of the bat and trajectory something you notice on the live swing or on the replay ? Because it took me a couple of times just to see the bat in the swing.
Also I understood absolutely nothing of this haha:
A full count is a ‘pitchers count’ (as opposed to a hitters count) which means it’s slightly harder for the batter to be productive as they have less wiggle room in the count.
Here is what I think it means:
It is a full count because all the pitchers has cycled through and they are on the last pitcher/first pitcher again?
Why this results in the batter having less wiggle room I cannot figure out.
In the live swing you can get a broad impression of the swing but mostly it’s from replays, especially in slow-mo, cause yeah these guys can swing it crazy fast!
Haha so the count matters A LOT in an at bat. 0 balls, 2 strikes (0-2) is a pitchers count because the pitcher only needs to throw one more strike to get the batter out. Thus the batter can’t really swing for the fences bc that has a high chance of missing AND they have to be both aggressive, bc they don’t want to get struck out looking, but also selective bc they don’t want to get struck out swinging. The pitcher has many mind games available in a pitchers count. A 2 ball, 0 strikes count (2-0) on the other hand is a hitters count bc they can, for example, swing for the fences and even if they miss the count is still in their favor (2-1).
Thus, a full count (3-2) is a pitchers count bc they have all the mind games available, tho it’s slightly better for the batter than a 0-2 bc if the pitcher misses they get a walk.
However, in this situation the batter doesn’t really want to walk because that would not advance the runner and it would open up the possibility of a double play ending the inning as it creates a force out at second and at first for the next batter.
Does that make more sense?
That makes total sense ! And now your previous comment also makes sense ! I really appreciate you taking the time to explain all of this to me :)
But wouldn’t it be just as difficult to hit a high ball as just a clean ball ? I mean if you are so good as to being able to choose your hit, you might as well choose to hit it clean into the and get a run out of it as well ?
Also I heard the Red Sox haven’t signed anyone yet in this round as the only team. What’s up with that ?