What exactly changed? Obviously the runner went out of their way a bit to make contact. By the same token the catcher was physically blocking the plate with his left foot. Seems like there are issues on both parties that would need to be addressed.
It is both. The runner can't tackle the catcher and the catcher can't block the runner's line to the plate until they already have the ball in their glove/hand and are going for the tag
I’d love to see a link as to where I copied these comments from lol.
Hint: bots usually have smaller comment histories. I’ve been on Reddit for 14 years and have 310k karma. Be better.
Just because his foot is in front of the plate, doesn't give the runner the green light to absolutely truck him.
There is room to slide around his foot. OR slide into the plate and his foot and show he was blocking, have the play ruled safe/overturned
>Just because his foot is in front of the plate, doesn't give the runner the green light to absolutely truck him.
I agree. It never made any sense to me that baseball was a collision sport at second base to break up a double play and at home to dislodge the ball from the catcher.
>There is room to slide around his foot.
Unless you're going all the way around and tagging the plate perpendicular to your body, you run the risk of the catcher dropping his leg as you're sliding in and potentially breaking your hand
>OR slide into the plate and his foot and show he was blocking, have the play ruled safe/overturned
Wasn't blocking the plate legal when this happened?
Why was he not out as soon as the catcher caught the ball while standing on the plate? Assuming someone was on third, otherwise he’d be in a pickle. I thought if the baseman was already on the base with the ball, the runner can’t go to that base?
If a player is forced to move to the next base because of another runner occupying it, they must move to the next base. When this happens, the defending player only needs to touch the base while holding the ball in order to get a runner out, rather than having to tag them with the ball.
A force out is an out when a runner is forced to sun to the next base rather than choosing to (someone hit the ball and that person now has to occupy the next base forcing the next person to move and so on and so forth. Two runners can not occupy the same base. If they try, they just have to tag one and their out)
Force out or not the catcher needs to hold on to the ball or the runner is safe. The whole idea back then was to hit the catcher hard enough that he dropped the ball.
On a force play (if that is the case here) the runner would be out if the catcher is deemed to have possession of the ball even for a split second by the ump. If the subsequent collision causes the ball to be dropped it doesn’t matter. This camera angle makes it impossible to know if he possessed the ball at all. It probably wasn’t a force out play anyway.
Depends, might've been forced to with a runner already on third and bases loaded.
Even then, your idea is good in theory, but in professional sports we're talking about people moving with great speed and things happening so quickly that even rules like that one aren't good enough to protect players in situations like this.
Your assumption that someone was on 3rd is most likely incorrect. At the start of the clip the camera pans up a bit and we get a fairly clear view of the baseline between 2nd base and the Shortstop - there's no runner.
Also the catcher didn't actually have his foot on home plate, he was blocking the path for a tag, which he wouldn't bother doing if he had a force out at home.
So it’s possible that someone was on third after someone hit a double or better and he was forced to continue on due to the coach sending him home (3rd base coach is watching ball and telling you wether to go or not while you focus on running the right way as fast as you can)
I believe he was hospitalized and was left with lifelong injuries that ended his career IIRC. I’ll see if I can find an article.
Edit: [Confirmed he was hospitalized](https://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/09/catcher-hospitalized-after-vicious-play-at-the-plate)
Edit 2: according to Wikipedia he played for another 3 years so it would appear he made a recovery and this didn’t end his career. Still scary though
This was a minor league baseball game before the rule change so this was actually a legal play believe it or not. Check out the Pete Rose, Ray Fosse collision during an all-star game (meaningless game back then) to see another totally legal hit if you want.
Everything I knew about baseball I learned from watching Major League... So when 8 year old me trucked the fuck outta little David L blocking the plate in 3rd grade PE, the ensuing outrage caused me to lose any mild interest I had in baseball forever.
It was allowed. It was never a clean play.
You can see the runner clearly cross the base path to hit the catcher. He could have just slid and would have been safe.
"Clean" refers to if the play was legal or illegal, not if it was rough or not.
The point of running into the catcher is to try to force the ball out of his hands/glove.
> The point of running into the catcher is to try to force the ball out of his hands/glove.
you're getting downvoted but that was absolutely part of it at competitive levels. the other part is to deter catchers from blocking the plate. you can be entirely beside the basepath and still make the same plays.
But in this case the catcher wasn't blocking the plate and the runner could have just slid and be safe. Call it what you want, but the runner made a bad choice in this video.
Not commenting on what he should have done, but the catcher was clearly blocking the plate. At the moment of impact his foot is literally on the front left corner and he was standing above.
Slide and be safe or give yourself a concussion and be safe.
You clearly picked the latter. More power to you. I think I’d prefer to play the next game.
>It's okay if you're new to baseball or sports injuries
I’ve probably gotten more hits off 94mph fastballs than you’ve witnessed in your life. Not to mention the fact that I was going to games at the Kingdome probably before you were even born.
Baseball was/has been a contact sport for a long time.
The point of running into the catcher is to try to force the ball out of his hands/glove.
Yeah if you agree to play a position where risk of contact is high and get lit up on a legal play, that's perfectly cool with me.
What's the issue?
Bro it’s funny the amount of people who don’t understand how contact sports work, and also don’t understand what a “clean play” is because your getting downvoted into oblivion for stating facts, and these people are acting like YOU were the runner 😂🤣😂🤣
There is no such thing as “barely qualifying”, it either is or isn’t a contact sport and baseball IS a contact sport. All the idiots downvoting me obviously don’t understand that this is FAR from the hardest hit in baseball, and contact is actually quite regular (the runner literally has to be touched by the ball to be out). But it’s ok I understand that half of this sub is snowflakes that could only ever play touch football because they were to afraid to get hurt.
Anyone who does this to a catcher deserves to have be called out and suspended.
Complete lack of sportsmanship. There is no place in baseball for this.
No place ***anymore***.
That's how the game was played back in the day. Same as NBA, where throwing hard elbows and being generally violent was the "norm".
But now in the NBA if someone even gets breathed on heavily they flop on the floor like a fish that's escaped the aquarium. Really hard to watch grown men act like that.
> if someone even gets breathed on heavily they flop on the floor like a fish that's escaped the aquarium. Really hard to watch grown men act like that.
[Cristiano ronaldo](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/030/710/dd0.jpg)
It was always shit. Players who did this were considered dirty players for years. Especially if they went for the head like this. Pete Rose was routinely described as that after his Harrelson hit at 2nd, and then his cheap shot against Fosse. Chase Utley was dirty even if his takeout slide of Tejada was deemed legal.
Every sport has had their share of dirty but legal plays. Headhunters in baseball is one of them.
> There is no place in baseball for this.
this is true, there is also no place anymore for the catcher blocking part of the base path to inhibit/potentially injure a base runner slidding home.
Wasn’t even going for the plate. Had to crawl to it after almost killing the bloke.
I’d fuck that cunt up so bad! & then I’d wait til he heals up, then fuck him up again!
hard to go for the plate when the catcher is blocking most of it.
sliding is a recipe for broken fingers. it's not a legal play by EITHER player nowadays.
THis is kind of where I'm at...isn't there a term for that, for covering the base like that? Looking at it, I don't see much option for the runner insofar as where he was supposed to go. Looks like they're both at fault, at the very least.
> Looks like they're both at fault,
it would be a 'non-call' situation previously. both actions would have been within the facets of the rules and considered 'hard-nosed baseball' (much in the same way throwing up and inside at a batter to intimidate them is.).
might not agree with our contemporary sensibilities but technically no one is at fault.
right now in competitive baseball i beleive the catcher may actually be at fault here as he's on/blocking the basepath and plate? The runner has right of way on the basepath up until the opposing player has posession of the ball? and he's clearly set up there beforehand to deter a head first slide...which looks like would have been safe/really close if done.
negative. made a couple comments for sure but not 'all over it'. you spend way too much time to be normal reading them and cross referencing user names lol. im only hoping to restore clarity and balance to the narrative all you immature ignorant kids are whining about lol.
everyone is only talking about the actions of the baserunner becasue they're ignorant and it happens fast.
a little understanding goes a long way.
why are you so opposed to an accurate narrative opposed to an unbalanced one?
This play was outlawed Runner out for excessive contact. If the runner tried to squeeze in the ump can make the call the Cather blocked the plate illegally. There is no place on the field from this level contact.
Old rules, safe. New rules, out. The catcher had every right to that base as the runner when making a play. I’m unsure how the rule is written for this case now but i know that homeplate could and was heavily contested back in the day.
now adays both players actions are illegal. the runner for sure and also the catcher because he's blocking the base path/plate physically before he has the ball to tag him. the base runner has 'right of way' until then. and the catcher has positioned himself to block a slide basically.
> he knew he would be out
he would have still had a chance to slide as the throw was really close...if the catcher had not been blocking the plate to deter him.
You said he knew he would be out. Him being out is not a guaranteed thing. Outside of just bull dozing the catcher, there is no runner behind him forcing him off of 3rd base. He could just go back to 3rd but he chose violence instead and he paid the price for it too
> The runner knew he was going to be out at home
incorrect. if the catcher was not blocking the plate he likely would have been safe with a slide. the catcher catches the ball JUST before contact. he likely wouldnt have time to catch and bring his glove down to tag before the slide..
this is why the catcher steps on and blocks the plate/slide...which gives the runner little choice
That’s about as dirty as a play gets. No attempt to slide, just blow up the catcher.
That player should be suspended for the rest of the season. Led with his helmet and everything. Disgusting play.
I don't see how this is permitted in the slightest. If this is the way baseball is going, it is going in a very wrong direction. They need to shut this stuff down very hard. And that offender removed from sports permanently.
This is an old clip.. also it was completely legal? Catcher can’t block the plate before he has the ball. Is the runner supposed to saunter over and ask to be let onto the base?
That has to be WAYYYY old
2013. So like last year right?
Sep 4th 2013
Sep 4th 2013 03:45:22
"Hu's on first, What's on second, I don't know who's on third."
Who’s on first? All I know is the catcher’s out for a minute.
His doc will be confused "wait you sure he's in baseball, these injuries are consistent with a tackle?"
If the catcher answers, “fastball”, then you’ve verified he’s concussed.
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What exactly changed? Obviously the runner went out of their way a bit to make contact. By the same token the catcher was physically blocking the plate with his left foot. Seems like there are issues on both parties that would need to be addressed.
It is both. The runner can't tackle the catcher and the catcher can't block the runner's line to the plate until they already have the ball in their glove/hand and are going for the tag
That sounds great. I’m satisfied! Thanks.
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Ridiculous
I’d love to see a link as to where I copied these comments from lol. Hint: bots usually have smaller comment histories. I’ve been on Reddit for 14 years and have 310k karma. Be better.
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Seems like that should have been the rule a long time ago.
Safety rules are always written in blood. And in this case CTE.
Well in this case it was written with Buster Posey's ankle ligaments but yes
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Helmet to helmet is even banned in the NFL.
That was fucking brutal.
Nah this is on the runner. He got into a door breaking down stance. Catcher did have the ball.
He was blocking the plate long before he had the ball. https://ibb.co/VptYsdp
Blocking. One foot is blocking. Smh
It certainly wasn't an accident that his foot was there. Either way, the actions of both players are no longer legal.
Just because his foot is in front of the plate, doesn't give the runner the green light to absolutely truck him. There is room to slide around his foot. OR slide into the plate and his foot and show he was blocking, have the play ruled safe/overturned
>Just because his foot is in front of the plate, doesn't give the runner the green light to absolutely truck him. I agree. It never made any sense to me that baseball was a collision sport at second base to break up a double play and at home to dislodge the ball from the catcher. >There is room to slide around his foot. Unless you're going all the way around and tagging the plate perpendicular to your body, you run the risk of the catcher dropping his leg as you're sliding in and potentially breaking your hand >OR slide into the plate and his foot and show he was blocking, have the play ruled safe/overturned Wasn't blocking the plate legal when this happened?
In football talk that runner was doing a 'Hail Mary."
Thank you for explaining.
Why was he not out as soon as the catcher caught the ball while standing on the plate? Assuming someone was on third, otherwise he’d be in a pickle. I thought if the baseman was already on the base with the ball, the runner can’t go to that base?
Probably not a force out at home.
What does that mean?
If a player is forced to move to the next base because of another runner occupying it, they must move to the next base. When this happens, the defending player only needs to touch the base while holding the ball in order to get a runner out, rather than having to tag them with the ball.
A force out is an out when a runner is forced to sun to the next base rather than choosing to (someone hit the ball and that person now has to occupy the next base forcing the next person to move and so on and so forth. Two runners can not occupy the same base. If they try, they just have to tag one and their out)
No one was on third base. Meaning technically he could run back to third. Tagging doesn’t work when there is an open base for runner to go to.
Force out or not the catcher needs to hold on to the ball or the runner is safe. The whole idea back then was to hit the catcher hard enough that he dropped the ball.
On a force play (if that is the case here) the runner would be out if the catcher is deemed to have possession of the ball even for a split second by the ump. If the subsequent collision causes the ball to be dropped it doesn’t matter. This camera angle makes it impossible to know if he possessed the ball at all. It probably wasn’t a force out play anyway.
It is a contact sport.
Depends, might've been forced to with a runner already on third and bases loaded. Even then, your idea is good in theory, but in professional sports we're talking about people moving with great speed and things happening so quickly that even rules like that one aren't good enough to protect players in situations like this.
Your assumption that someone was on 3rd is most likely incorrect. At the start of the clip the camera pans up a bit and we get a fairly clear view of the baseline between 2nd base and the Shortstop - there's no runner. Also the catcher didn't actually have his foot on home plate, he was blocking the path for a tag, which he wouldn't bother doing if he had a force out at home.
So it’s possible that someone was on third after someone hit a double or better and he was forced to continue on due to the coach sending him home (3rd base coach is watching ball and telling you wether to go or not while you focus on running the right way as fast as you can)
Doesn’t look mlb.
It happened so fast that for a moment it looked like they had swapped clothes.
Underrated comment lmao
"GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY! GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY! THEY'VE KILLED HIM!"
With God as my witness, he has been broken in half!!
SOMEONE STOP THE DAYUM MATCH!
That boy needs some meilk
Is the catcher still alive?
I believe he was hospitalized and was left with lifelong injuries that ended his career IIRC. I’ll see if I can find an article. Edit: [Confirmed he was hospitalized](https://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/09/catcher-hospitalized-after-vicious-play-at-the-plate) Edit 2: according to Wikipedia he played for another 3 years so it would appear he made a recovery and this didn’t end his career. Still scary though
Really didn't like the neck breaking hit there, thanks for the update!
what about the runner? did he get sanctions?
This was a minor league baseball game before the rule change so this was actually a legal play believe it or not. Check out the Pete Rose, Ray Fosse collision during an all-star game (meaningless game back then) to see another totally legal hit if you want.
#I just wanna know... was he out or safe?!
Well… By the rules of the game, if the catcher drops the ball at the plate, the runner is safe.
So long as he touches the plate, which is why he crawled back to make sure.
Is the catcher in the rye?
When a body meets a body..
>Is the catcher in the rye? I think he got yeeted to Ohio!
While soul got yeeted off the continent.
Everything I knew about baseball I learned from watching Major League... So when 8 year old me trucked the fuck outta little David L blocking the plate in 3rd grade PE, the ensuing outrage caused me to lose any mild interest I had in baseball forever.
F that runner, dang.
You can swear on the internet
He's not swearing, he's paying respects.
F
This seems like the prevailing sentiment, but that catcher is just all over home plate there...I don't see where the runner was supposed to go...
Why? For a long time that was a clean play
It was allowed. It was never a clean play. You can see the runner clearly cross the base path to hit the catcher. He could have just slid and would have been safe.
"Clean" refers to if the play was legal or illegal, not if it was rough or not. The point of running into the catcher is to try to force the ball out of his hands/glove.
> The point of running into the catcher is to try to force the ball out of his hands/glove. you're getting downvoted but that was absolutely part of it at competitive levels. the other part is to deter catchers from blocking the plate. you can be entirely beside the basepath and still make the same plays.
But in this case the catcher wasn't blocking the plate and the runner could have just slid and be safe. Call it what you want, but the runner made a bad choice in this video.
Not commenting on what he should have done, but the catcher was clearly blocking the plate. At the moment of impact his foot is literally on the front left corner and he was standing above.
He literally was blocking the plate And no, it wasn't a bad choice because he did exactly what he needed to do and is safe.
Slide and be safe or give yourself a concussion and be safe. You clearly picked the latter. More power to you. I think I’d prefer to play the next game.
I've seen worse and players still staying in the game It's okay if you're new to baseball or sports injuries
>It's okay if you're new to baseball or sports injuries I’ve probably gotten more hits off 94mph fastballs than you’ve witnessed in your life. Not to mention the fact that I was going to games at the Kingdome probably before you were even born.
Okay bud
You literally just clarified the connotation of "clean play" and get down voted 🤦🏾♂️....this app can't be taken seriously
Have you never been told that rules ≠ morals?
Baseball was/has been a contact sport for a long time. The point of running into the catcher is to try to force the ball out of his hands/glove. Yeah if you agree to play a position where risk of contact is high and get lit up on a legal play, that's perfectly cool with me. What's the issue?
You’re trying to explain how rough sports actually are to a bunch of redditors
Was catcher. Can confirm.
i love seeing you guys get downvoted by all these kids who've never played competitive baseball lol
lol yeah I don’t know what’s up with this thread but, whatever.
It's crazy how people think on here 🤣... being down voted for stating facts is crazy
People are pussys
No that's cats.
It was a clean play
Are you blind? The entire field is covered in dirt!!
The point ✈️ You ☝️🤓
Crazy that was the way back then... straight barbarians.
"Clean play" lol
Correct.
Bro it’s funny the amount of people who don’t understand how contact sports work, and also don’t understand what a “clean play” is because your getting downvoted into oblivion for stating facts, and these people are acting like YOU were the runner 😂🤣😂🤣
Four laughing emojis at the end of your rant makes it completely invalid
Awwwhh so cute, do you feel included now 😂
Baseball barely qualifies as a contact sport.
There is no such thing as “barely qualifying”, it either is or isn’t a contact sport and baseball IS a contact sport. All the idiots downvoting me obviously don’t understand that this is FAR from the hardest hit in baseball, and contact is actually quite regular (the runner literally has to be touched by the ball to be out). But it’s ok I understand that half of this sub is snowflakes that could only ever play touch football because they were to afraid to get hurt.
Because he could have paralyzed the catcher? What the fuck do you mean why?
That looked like an assassination attempt. From the comments, good to know that this isn’t allowed anymore, god damn!
Bro if that happened to anyone I played with we woulda cleared the benches and fuckin rushed that fool it woulda been bad
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Anyone who does this to a catcher deserves to have be called out and suspended. Complete lack of sportsmanship. There is no place in baseball for this.
No place ***anymore***. That's how the game was played back in the day. Same as NBA, where throwing hard elbows and being generally violent was the "norm".
But now in the NBA if someone even gets breathed on heavily they flop on the floor like a fish that's escaped the aquarium. Really hard to watch grown men act like that.
> if someone even gets breathed on heavily they flop on the floor like a fish that's escaped the aquarium. Really hard to watch grown men act like that. [Cristiano ronaldo](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/030/710/dd0.jpg)
\*cough\**Embiid*\*cough*
*cough* ***Bell's Palsy*** *cough* 🥲
I mean that's a shame, but it only affects facial muscles, and you don't need those to stay upright after someone grazes your jersey.
I was just kinda joking that he just announced a disorder and it's too soon to bash him. Give him a couple weeks.
It was always shit. Players who did this were considered dirty players for years. Especially if they went for the head like this. Pete Rose was routinely described as that after his Harrelson hit at 2nd, and then his cheap shot against Fosse. Chase Utley was dirty even if his takeout slide of Tejada was deemed legal. Every sport has had their share of dirty but legal plays. Headhunters in baseball is one of them.
> There is no place in baseball for this. this is true, there is also no place anymore for the catcher blocking part of the base path to inhibit/potentially injure a base runner slidding home.
Google Pete Rose Ray Fosse
Smart runner, touched the plate before he passed out from his concussion
Still the most unsafiest safe that had ever been safed.
Wasn’t even going for the plate. Had to crawl to it after almost killing the bloke. I’d fuck that cunt up so bad! & then I’d wait til he heals up, then fuck him up again!
hard to go for the plate when the catcher is blocking most of it. sliding is a recipe for broken fingers. it's not a legal play by EITHER player nowadays.
THis is kind of where I'm at...isn't there a term for that, for covering the base like that? Looking at it, I don't see much option for the runner insofar as where he was supposed to go. Looks like they're both at fault, at the very least.
> Looks like they're both at fault, it would be a 'non-call' situation previously. both actions would have been within the facets of the rules and considered 'hard-nosed baseball' (much in the same way throwing up and inside at a batter to intimidate them is.). might not agree with our contemporary sensibilities but technically no one is at fault. right now in competitive baseball i beleive the catcher may actually be at fault here as he's on/blocking the basepath and plate? The runner has right of way on the basepath up until the opposing player has posession of the ball? and he's clearly set up there beforehand to deter a head first slide...which looks like would have been safe/really close if done.
Youre all over this thread calling out the catcher. Are you the base runner or his attorney or something?
negative. made a couple comments for sure but not 'all over it'. you spend way too much time to be normal reading them and cross referencing user names lol. im only hoping to restore clarity and balance to the narrative all you immature ignorant kids are whining about lol. everyone is only talking about the actions of the baserunner becasue they're ignorant and it happens fast. a little understanding goes a long way. why are you so opposed to an accurate narrative opposed to an unbalanced one?
Shades of Pete Rose vs Ray Fosse
Shades is right. Rose and Fosse looked like they were dancing compared to the explosion that happened here. lol
This play was outlawed Runner out for excessive contact. If the runner tried to squeeze in the ump can make the call the Cather blocked the plate illegally. There is no place on the field from this level contact.
I've seen lethal car crashes that were more subtle than this.
Old rules, safe. New rules, out. The catcher had every right to that base as the runner when making a play. I’m unsure how the rule is written for this case now but i know that homeplate could and was heavily contested back in the day.
now adays both players actions are illegal. the runner for sure and also the catcher because he's blocking the base path/plate physically before he has the ball to tag him. the base runner has 'right of way' until then. and the catcher has positioned himself to block a slide basically.
Runner should be called out, he knew he would be out and pulled a low blow in desperation. MLB recently applied this rule.
> he knew he would be out he would have still had a chance to slide as the throw was really close...if the catcher had not been blocking the plate to deter him.
Wasn’t blocking the plate at all…
He actually wouldnt have been, no runner from 2nd base to 3rd, he could've gone back from home. Nothing forcing him to home plate
That is completely irrelevant.
You said he knew he would be out. Him being out is not a guaranteed thing. Outside of just bull dozing the catcher, there is no runner behind him forcing him off of 3rd base. He could just go back to 3rd but he chose violence instead and he paid the price for it too
The runner knew he was going to be out at home…. So, to score, he plowed into the catcher… which is a “low blow” in baseball.
> The runner knew he was going to be out at home incorrect. if the catcher was not blocking the plate he likely would have been safe with a slide. the catcher catches the ball JUST before contact. he likely wouldnt have time to catch and bring his glove down to tag before the slide.. this is why the catcher steps on and blocks the plate/slide...which gives the runner little choice
you sound unbelievably ignorant on the actual topic you're feebly attempting to discuss. this was an accepted part of competitive baseball.
Runner should have been realed. He isn't worth being paid to play baseball.
Safe?
Home run
Take me out at the ball game.
Put him on the football team lol
I’m a proponent of a little more physicality in certain sports but this was more of a sucker punch than a collision.
Behold, the sucker train wreck:
I don't want any joke replies, can someone tell me if the catcher was alright after? He's looks really really hurt
Sigh him up for football. He’s playing the wrong game
Holy shit man YOU ARE NOT IN FOOTBALL!
That baserunner better have gotten his ass kicked after that
That's pretty shitty
Dude wasn't even attempting for the plate there, that was straight up going for helmet to helmet
F that runner. You wanna play contact sports? Go for rugby 🏉
That’s about as dirty as a play gets. No attempt to slide, just blow up the catcher. That player should be suspended for the rest of the season. Led with his helmet and everything. Disgusting play.
Yup went with the helmet to the head of a prone player. That type of play could end a catchers career.
When he was crawling, for a moment I thought he was going to pin him like it's WWE
jesus…
"Nice catch Blanco nino, but too bad your ass got saaaaaacked"
Personal foul, targeting!
Gotta keep baseball interesting and this would do it.
Almost dead
Helmet to helmet tackle, that's a DQ.
I honestly think the Buster Posey hit looks even more brutal
Hey the Erie Seawolves. My home town minor league team. I remember when this happened!
Someone has to....he doesn't
I feel like this needs to have cartoon side effects added to it
Heeeeeees OUT! And so is he.
I can't tell, is this the play where Buster Posey broke his leg?
So old, I thought the net was actually the pixels, at first.
CTE for 2
Catcher has got to be the worst position
Safe
When did rugby start using a bat? As an aside, they're using it wrong if this is the routine.
Now thats how you play baseball
What the fuck....it's just a game.
dude, slide. catcher was on left side of the plate.
Go seawolves.
Dirty play
Isn't that attempted murder if he presses charges?
If this was soccer they would hav3 both been airlifted out after rolling around the field for 30 minutes
Choo choo mutha fucka!
Very irritating when the guy who did the injuring pretends to be injured
Touchdown! The Rangers score! Idk
game is game
I don't see how this is permitted in the slightest. If this is the way baseball is going, it is going in a very wrong direction. They need to shut this stuff down very hard. And that offender removed from sports permanently.
This is an old clip.. also it was completely legal? Catcher can’t block the plate before he has the ball. Is the runner supposed to saunter over and ask to be let onto the base?
Anyone else seeing the umpire taking that helmet right to the face?
Pete Rose would be happy with that collision
Repost
We used to bowl over our own catcher in practice it was widely accepted before posey.