https://www.youtube.com/live/CdpLTsJFjtU?feature=share&t=8092
This is a championship Class B1 varsity sectional game. 2 outs, first and second. The Pal-Mac Red Raiders need a hit, or a bone-headed dumb play by the catcher who convinces himself and the rest of the team that they won.
The catcher clearly drops strike three, which allows the batter to try for first. The catcher makes a lame attempt to tag the batter. He doesn’t.
He looks back at the ump and the ump clearly gives the safe sign, indicating that he did not tag the batter. The catcher pockets the ball in his back pocket and runs out to celebrate. He convinces the rest of the team that they’ve won the game. Well, not everyone. Some poor kid is trying to get the attention of all the dipshits rolling on the ground and he’s desperately asking for the ball as he stands at home plate watching the championship slip away.
I have a problem with poor situational awareness. It makes me feel as if people like that can somehow cause my death. lolol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS3i-irQ0L0
It’s like a football player stopping before the whistle blows. It sure looked like the Cather dropped the ball to me.
https://youtu.be/WE1V-h0qPzQ
Both teams are Red Raiders, how does that stand? Racist! My HS teams were the Red Raiders, now only the Raiders.
Why are both teams wearing red?
Angels/White Sox, ALCS, 2005. Pitch hits the dirt, AJ Pierzynski runs to first, and Josh Paul just rolls the ball back to the mound. Pierzynski is safe, Sox go on to win the game and later the series.
People still argue about that, but all Paul had to do was either tag Pierzynski or throw to first. Instead, the Angels put the game in the hands of the umpire, and in that case they have to live with the umpire’s decision.
Speaking as a former catcher, that was inexcusable. Pull your heat out of your ass, kid.
If I had pulled that bonehead play, at the least coach would have me running laps in full gear until he said stop or I passed out.
*head
couple of things stick out:
1. strike 3 was a little low & inside … really doesn’t matter … ump called it
2. the catcher clearly dropped the ball
3. the catcher gestures to the ump about the call on tagging the batter/runner
4. the catcher didn’t wait to see the ump’s call (although it does look like he disregarded whatever the ump said because he thought it was the 3rd out … & this is only my opinion & we all know what opinions are like)
coached Little League & Boys Club Baseball for about 12 years & I always emphasized that every pitch, every catch, every hit, every throw, every baserunner, every play has a different reaction by every fielder. ask WHAT am I going to do if the ball is hit to me. & if it isn’t hit to you, what do you do to put yourself in the best position to back-up where the play is going? be involved, be aware … every pitch!
… & coaches still coach all the way into the Majors & it’s amazing how most players still don’t have situational awareness … they get excited & their brains revert to their Little League days
Baseball is very much a total skill game … you have to use your brain … probably why it’s fazing out w/ the younger generations
I’d cut the kid a bit of slack; it’s not like he’s Bill Buckner in the ’86 World Series, or the ump that ruined Armando Galarraga’s perfect game
kid’s gonna have a bumpy ride home … hopefully, he learns a lesson … the rest of the team too
Dumbass catcher pulls the ball from his back pocket – trying to convince everybody running back- yelling,” No, no….See? here’s the ball!
I tagged him!”
No.
No, you didn’t.
You SHOULD have, but you clearly didn’t.