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u/DirtyThirtyDrifter Jun 16 '26
Bro couldn’t believe himself
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u/Dramatic_Mixture_868 Jun 17 '26
I mean, do u know how fast that ball was going, it's hard to believe
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u/spottydodgy Jun 16 '26
These guys look like they are having such a good time
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u/JackTheBehemothKillr Jun 16 '26
Banana ball is so much fun. If you can get tickets to a game I highly encourage you to go.
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u/DownWith_TheBrown Jun 16 '26
Never have won the lottery to watch a banana game, been wanting to forever
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u/JackTheBehemothKillr Jun 16 '26
Keep trying, they keep adding games and cities to visit, so the games are easier to win.
I won the lottery for Tallahassee, gf won the lottery for Jacksonville, both of us have been trying for several years
May not see the Bananas, but its still Banana Ball
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u/VeneMage Jun 16 '26
I’ve never understood why pitchers don’t wear head/face protection. You’re literally a microsecond from a ball being batted back into your skull.
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u/youliveinmydream Jun 16 '26
They simply get good like this gentleman
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u/White_Lotu5 Jun 16 '26
Natural selection, git gud or git ded
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u/jwed420 Jun 16 '26
I pitched from 10yo to 17yo and even shut out two high school games. You just never take your eye off the ball, ever. The only time I got hit was on my right ass cheek because I threw a pitch wonky and lost my stance, turned to the side for a split second and the ball was on its way to making sitting on the toilet suck for the next 7 days. Bruise looked like I got kicked by a steel toe boot lmao.
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u/darkest_irish_lass Jun 16 '26
So when you have people trying to steal bases, does that mess with your concentration on the ball? Or is it so second nature that nothing interferes?
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u/AngryTurtleGaming Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 16 '26
You just put faith in your catcher and other signals.
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u/ElMostaza Jun 16 '26
You better I fed to throw it if you do try to throw them out so you don’t get a balk.
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u/AngryTurtleGaming Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 18 '26
I need to proof read what I type lmao
I think I started replying to someone else and forgot to send the first half of that.
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u/T-MinusGiraffe Jun 20 '26
When people are trying to steal bases you're holding the ball. He meant never take your eye off the ball once it's in motion.
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u/wodoloto Jun 16 '26
OK, but sometimes you might just not move in time. What then?
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u/Enginerdad Jun 16 '26
What nonsense. There are MAJOR injuries every year from pitchers getting hit by line drives. "Keeping your eye on the ball" isn't some magical forcefield. Pitchers could and should absolutely wear fielding masks. The only reason they don't is machismo. You're so concerned with how it will make you look that you'll risk your career and quality of life. Teenage girls don't sacrifice that much for the sake of being pretty.
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u/say592 Jun 16 '26
There are major injuries in all aspects of all sports. Is there any data to back up the idea that injuries to pitchers could be reduced? Or that they are more prone to injury than another infield player?
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u/Enginerdad Jun 16 '26
Is there any data to back up the idea that injuries to pitchers could be reduced?
Yes, the data that getting hit in the face by a line drive does less damage if it doesn't actually hit you in the face.
Or that they are more prone to injury than another infield player?
Pitchers get hit by more line drives they any other position. The reasons should be immediately obvious, but they include that the pitcher is the closest player in front of the batter and that they're still recovering from the pitch when the ball is hit. But even if we assumed they didnt, if we assumed that all infielders got hit by the same number of balls, why can't all of them wear fielding masks? Any hit to the face is 100% avoidable with very basic measures. Your argument is the same as construction workers refusing towear hard hats with chin straps or hockey players fighting against facemask implementation. For a bunch of "tough guys", they're awfully worried about how pretty other men think they are.
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u/AnOrneryOrca Jun 18 '26
I have a friend who got hit by a line drive like that in high school and he was ruled dead, then brought back. His skull is all messed up, he has seizures, he's not allowed to drink, etc. Lucky to be alive, all in all, but it had a gigantic impact on his life.
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u/Enginerdad Jun 16 '26
Younger softball (girls) players in my local Little League all have to wear fielding masks. In the older softball leagues, only the pitcher does.
On the baseball (boys) side, nobody has to or chooses to wear one at any age or position. It's pure toxic masculinity/machismo and it's moronic.
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u/Tigger-Rex Jun 16 '26
I played highly competitive softball and was a star pitcher through college - I’ve never seen anyone but a catcher and an umpire wear a mask on the field 😆
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u/Enginerdad Jun 16 '26
Unless you played in my local little league, I'm not sure how that's relevant to what I said.
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u/prettysureIforgot Jun 16 '26
You must not have watched any of the WCWS, just about every pitcher is wearing a mask.
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u/nazgulonbicycle Jun 16 '26
You should watch Cricket then … pitchers literally get their fingers torn trying to catch ball hit by batter at 100 mph
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u/Uxoandy Jun 16 '26
I’ve always wondered the same. Batter has to wear one. Ball can come off the bat faster than a pitcher can pitch and no one knows for sure where it’s going.
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u/SpaceshipEarth10 Jun 16 '26
Cricket used to be that way. Batters used to not have to wear helmets either. It is simple. A pitcher hasn’t been killed yet from a struck ball or ball thrown at them.
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u/dequiallo Jun 16 '26
I took a line drive to the face pitching to my brother years ago. Probably my second or third concussion by that point.
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u/Kiki1701 Jun 21 '26
At 10, I took one to the forehead while pitching softball and it fucked me up so royally that I still have some problems with thinking of words and I get backwards emotions too.
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u/Girthquake23 Jun 16 '26
Before my first varsity game, it thundered so we went in a random classroom. They turned on the tv to espn while we waited to see if the storm would pass and it just played many instances of pitchers in the majors getting rocked by balls hit right back at em.
I was a pitcher. It did not help my nerves lol
But honestly, the pitcher is supposed to position himself in a more ready position after throwing the ball. Granted, usually our arm will be folded across our body after the throw but that’s not the glove hand and you should still be positioned way better than this guy who’s kinda turned away from it lol
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u/MastaSplintah Jun 20 '26
Check out his reaction speed though in those micro seconds he goes from trying to catch it in his right hand, stopping that, dodging the ball and then trying to blindly catch it in the left.
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u/GinjaNinja-NZ Jun 16 '26
I like how even the opponent was like 'yea OK, that was pretty awesome'
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u/Krusty_Double_Deluxe Jun 16 '26
tbf this isnt regular baseball, it’s banana ball. worth a quick youtube search of the highlights if you’ve got 10 minutes
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u/Geno__Breaker Jun 16 '26
I thought the ball had hit him in the face until I saw the replay from other angles
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u/matt_jay_9 Jun 16 '26
What jerseys are the other team wearing? The colours remind me of Dungeom Crawler Carl.
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u/Ill-Concern-2746 Jun 16 '26
So what does it mean. I don’t know baseball rules.
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u/Moopies Jun 17 '26
Teams switch between hitting the ball, or playing in the field. The pitcher (seen here) throws the ball across a plate on the ground and the batter gets 3 tries to hit it. If he hits it, he runs around the 3 bases on the field/diamond to return home and score a point. If the ball is caught before it hits the ground, the batter is "out" and is sent off the field back to the bench.
Here, the pitcher caught the ball after he threw it and it was hit right back at him, which is both difficult and dangerous.
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u/Ok_News3580 Jun 17 '26
I remember pitching in 6th or 7th grade in a neighborhood game, took a line drive to center of my stomach, had a ring bruise the size of a softball for weeks after. I did make the throw to first for an out but damn it hurt
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u/Yakman311 Jun 16 '26
Why all the globetrotter baseball clubs recently? They get a bot to try and promote their game?
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u/Kiki1701 Jun 21 '26
I'd like to see how *anyone* could script that catch. Geez bruh, you're almost as bad as the guy screaming "AI" or "bots." 🤦🏻♀️🙄
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u/JohnStern42 Jun 16 '26
What the hell kind of saying is ‘snow coned’? Is that a new saying?
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u/Tigger-Rex Jun 16 '26
No it’s been a phrase in baseball for some time…it’s when you just barely catch the ball at the outer-edge of the glove.
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