I’m still just mind boggled that none of these guys were completely knocked out. Jennings was running on autopilot sure but the fact these balls are hitting them in the head at almost 105mph and these guys don’t get immediately knocked out or worse is mind boggling
If you watch the last one with McCarthy, he was probably the closest, in my opinion from what i could see, to being knocked out. If you watch the slow motion replay and keep a close eye on his throwing hand, as soon as he's hit and starts going down you can see it curl up! Very similar to some of the knockouts you might see in MMA or something of that nature.....or if you watch NFL and saw the second concussion that Tua got in the 2022 season and the way his hands took a very distinct posture that you could tell was completely uncontrollable! And then after his head bounced off the ground and he started to sit up, his hand is just kind of "there" against the side of his face, which wasnt where the ball hit him. You can tell he isn't with it at all in that moment!
Yeah, the full video is even scarier. He stood there for a couple seconds with his hands on his knees, semi-supported by the catcher, then he staggered one step sideways and went down to his knees. He was completely on instinct there for about 20 seconds, lights were on but nobody was home.
I can't imagine what'd I'd be like to be the batter who hit one of these. You immediately feel bad but then still have to run to first. It's really horrible that there isn't an immediate stoppage of play for injury. I know it'd be impractical, but the people are the important part of the sport at the end of the day.
Won’t be surprised if we start seeing head and face protective gear on pitchers in the near future. Batters and catchers are expecting the ball to come at them and are much more readily able to dodge out of the way than a pitcher who’s just thrown the ball, and they wear helmets. The ball can also come at a pitcher significantly faster than a pitch headed towards the batter.
@@gurk_the_magnificent9008 that will probably at some point be a possibility, the other thing pitchers have to defend themselves from a line drive minus their glove is. Most have kinda like plates on the sides of their hats that are built into it but it doesn't help much, in little league and high school I was beaned back at the mound twice. Once hit my throwing shoulder and the other the side of my head, the second one I was never the same and couldn't really get on the mound anymore after...
You could not enforce an immediate stoppage rule even if you put it in place because it violates both human pyschology and common sense. It's literally three or four seconds that they continue playing and most of the time it's because they haven't registered what happened. Even when you see a thing like that you're naturally on autopilot a few seconds. The players also aren't the ones who give attention to the injured person beyond verbal "Are you ok". It's the trainers. If anything, a lot of players around distracts and hinders the trainers from getting to the injured player. The trainers start moving from the dugout as soon as it's clear they're needed. There's no reason to penalize the players for acting on instinct for four seconds when there's nothing useful they could do anyway to help the injured man.
@@gurk_the_magnificent9008 it's actually why you're taught from a young age to be ready to field the ball. I know in girls soft all at the HS level the pitchers wear masks/helmets but the ball is bigger there's an issue with vision if they out a mask on and a helmet will fall in the windup.
Well there's the addition of pitches have a certain range of control. Like one getting away from you vs intentional hitting....there's a bit of a faded line. You'd need to be so unbelievably talented to be able to hit a 98mph fast ball with a bat with enough control to snipe the pitcher's head. That's 10000% a freak accident. Like the entire 178 degrees of where you could hit on the surface of both the ball and the bat and then the some -12 degrees to 89 degrees range vertically and about 130 degrees horizontally from the plate, they hit the perfect spot to send that fastball right back at the pitcher's face. It's beyond terrifying, it's something that statistically shouldn't be happening in like centuries between incidents.
At those speeds they're like a massive bullet. It's a miracle that none of these hits resulted in fatalities. I have always believed that Pitchers should have to wear protective gear just like the Catchers do. When that ball comes off of that bat, the Pitcher is both the closest to that projectile, and the one in the most immediate line of fire. I don't care if some people think it's "inconvenient" or "unnecessary". It'd rather have Pitchers wear protective gear and never end up needing it, than to have them go without and get nailed by a comebacker like these....or in a worst-case scenario, ending up six feet under. The lives and well-being of these players should be more important than anything else.
I knew Matt Shoemaker, we went to church together growing up. He wound up having to get surgery to relieve some swelling on his brain after this, but he’s fine now
I got a line drive right back at me to the face when I was 15. Caught it turned and threw it to second for a double. I still remember it like it was yesterday chills run down my back. There’s no thinking in these just reaction time. Glad I caught if not I wouldn’t have my real teeth. Felt like the best player to touch that mound lol
I drilled my teammate with a softball once. I felt so bad.. he lost some teeth and had like 10 stitches inside his mouth. We were playing catch and on one throw I let it rip and he was not expecting such a fast ball. Ouch!
4:38 This was one scary shot. You can't see in this edit, but the camera looked Jennings straight in the face. I have never seen a more literal example of "the lights are on but nobody's home". His eyes looked bestial, no active intelligence behind them at all.
That's hard to watch. I have a serious concussion from a car accident. I hit the windshield and had on a seat belt but I was never the same. I have some double vision. I forgot people's names that I knew for 15 years. I may stutter and i may be slower to think of a joke. I used to be very fast with jokes and come backs but now those jokes just hit a wall at times. I've come a long way though and I've seriously improved over the years. I'm almost totally healed but that was 27 years ago. Concussions can be very serious.
The fact that some of these players are able to walk off the field after getting hit in the face by a hard ball at over 100 mph. Shows just how F'N Tough these players are. My respects to them.
You gotta love the sportsmanship. When trainers from BOTH benches rush the mound to make sure they’re ok. 105 mph to the dome is highly not recommended.
I’ve seen others where pitchers, catchers and umpires get drilled. The other person felt horrible, especially the one where a 2 year old was hit. Personally I would never bring a kid that young there.
I hit one back to the mound in pony league that had ambulences show up. thank god one of the coaches was an emt. hit him square on the the breast bone. stopped his heart. I skipped a year of playing because of it. My heart goes out to these pitchers.
So why can't pitchers wear helmets? Even some new age flexible foam that form fits around the head? That last guy was posturing in a way that means brain trauma. It's just a matter of time before someone dies.
He had to have emergency surgery. They had to temporarily remove part of his skull to relieve the swelling pressure on his brain. took him like almost a year to recover.
Question: Is there any rule that forbids the player to check or assist the injured pitcher? I maaaay understand that arriving 1st base until the umpires pause the game for medical check, but after...is the player (who swing the bat) unable to leave the bse and check fot the other? I would inmediatly run to the pitcher after waching that my hit hurt them like that.
I always have a hard time watching this stuff. As someone who pitched softball and lob ball, and who has been hit in the head honestly a handful of times, it's tough to watch. I wear a mask now because equipment is so advanced now and the softballs come back even faster now.
Amazing that this doesn't happen more often but I guess until it becomes more commonplace or a pitcher is killed there wont be much done to prevent this. That said, I would not want to see pitchers wearing helmets or face masks but I know years of attempts to create hats with some form of protection never banned out. And of course to be effective in this hyper competitive environment focusing on finishing in a defensive posture is discouraged.
My son's all played Little League baseball and the pictures all had to wear helmets because of a junior high kid that got hit in the head and had brain damage. Why do MLB pitchers not wear helmets? If they get hit this often it seems like a very serious health hazard!
Players Union CBA makes it optional for them I am pretty sure...they probably have to do that cuz no one wants to play this very skillful, yet fuckin boring ass game....
This right here is the reason pitchers need protective head gear. They are closer to the batter than any other player other than the catcher. They don't have but milliseconds to react.
The teams both teams seem more interested in the game than the downed man. In UK in football and cricket very often its the opposing team who are there to help first
I have said this in other comback videos. The play needs to immediately stop and attention is needed. The guy can take first. Theres more important crap than continuing the play. I wish they would wear helmets but this play doesn't happen enough to justify the "keep on playing" mentality.
You could not enforce that rule even if you put it in place because it violates both human pyschology and common sense. It's literally three or four seconds that they continue playing and most of the time it's because they haven't seen or registered what happened. Even when you see a thing like that you're naturally on autopilot a few seconds. The players also aren't the ones who give attention to the injured person beyond verbal "Are you ok". It's the trainers. If anything, a lot of players around distracts and hinders the trainers from getting to the injured player. The trainers start moving from the dugout as soon as it's clear they're needed. There's no reason to penalize the players for acting on instinct for four seconds when there's nothing useful they could do anyway to help the injured man.
Do you think the trainers are standing at the dugout steps waiting for this to happen? The trainers would take the same amount of time to get out there even if the play was stopped immediately. They aren't just waiting for the play to end to start helping the guy, in some of these plays like the Cobb play they're already crossing the foul line to get him attention before the ball is even dead
I was playing catcher at my baseball game and we have a pitcher machine and I got in the private spot. No armor no ground just straight there and you know what my coach said when I was crying bc of it. Walk it off but luckily I was able to stay in the game
St Louis was in a surprising amount of these, and always the ones on assault. I didn't realize how much that organization truly hates pitching. I knew they hated acquiring pitching for their roster, but apparently they hate all pitching and are actively and aggressively trying to remove it from the league.
If it whacks the pitcher on the noggin, bounces up into the air, and somebody catches it before it hits the ground, does the pitcher get credited with an assist?
0:19 Oh man.. I didn't know I'd be able to see the bruise of it 😫 That's pretty mad, and I really wanna know the outcome of what happened to them later. And this might be a dumb question, but.. can a hit from a baseball that fast and solid cause a cranial fracture?
I would say on average the ball travels at an exit velocity of 100mph once hit off of the bat, so it is just a matter of the angle and trajectory of the ball at that point determining if it hits the Pitcher or not. Think of a car accident at the speed but rather than the impact spread across your entire body it is focused and all confined down to a small area increasing the kinetic energy into a fine point making it much easier to penetrate through, or to shatter the bones very violently in a small area....so do you want the impact of a 100mph car crash focused all its power as its smashing into your eye socket would you think that is: 1) No big deal, walk it off! or 2) Very very bad!!!!!!!!!!
I’ll bet Robbie Ray has a laugh about his. About how far it bounced, and the fact that they third baseman made sure it was an out, for him getting hit in the head
Has anyone ever lied down and thrown a baseball up so you can catch it? I did that once and missed and it smacked me right in the mouth. My lip was bleeding and that was only from like 8 feet in the air at a free fall. I could not imagine being hit by a comeback ball.
This video popped up in my feed today and goddamn did it trigger. I was a fastpitch pitcher for 10 years growing up and i took a line drive to the jaw after ricocheting off my forearm. Even after the ricochet (which docs xrayed twice because they werent convinced it wasnt fractured the first time), i atill had stitch marks going up my jawline and would have had to have my jaw reconstructed if it had been an 1/8th of a inch lower. Each and every one of these made me cringe, I was actually at the game where Shoemaker was hit, but yeah...Jennings was by far the most terrifying.
Being up and on your feet means nothing when it comes to concussion. There can still be damage. There have been intances where people have had head injuries, seemed absolutely fine and shown no symptoms, and the next thing you know they're dead from a bleed on the brain.
How does this only have 44 views and 5 likes
Cut to 1 month later
cause baseball is boring
@@paupukkewis yeah that’s alright for you to say because I assume you don’t don’t like baseball but there’s tons of people that do. Mixed opinions
Well then...
because baseball is boring?
I’m still just mind boggled that none of these guys were completely knocked out. Jennings was running on autopilot sure but the fact these balls are hitting them in the head at almost 105mph and these guys don’t get immediately knocked out or worse is mind boggling
If you watch the last one with McCarthy, he was probably the closest, in my opinion from what i could see, to being knocked out. If you watch the slow motion replay and keep a close eye on his throwing hand, as soon as he's hit and starts going down you can see it curl up! Very similar to some of the knockouts you might see in MMA or something of that nature.....or if you watch NFL and saw the second concussion that Tua got in the 2022 season and the way his hands took a very distinct posture that you could tell was completely uncontrollable! And then after his head bounced off the ground and he started to sit up, his hand is just kind of "there" against the side of his face, which wasnt where the ball hit him. You can tell he isn't with it at all in that moment!
I think McCarthy was out and his head snapping back brought him back. @@seanmalicoat6782
@@seanmalicoat6782I think on the last one the fall woke him back up. His legs gave out instantly and folded
Not as boggled as their minds were
Why not using head protection on that base you know the ball comes mostly back in your direction
The one at 1:38 with Alex Cobb was brutal. You can hear his skull crack as the ball hits him.
4:30: The Jennings one is probably one of the scariest ones out there.
Yeah, the full video is even scarier. He stood there for a couple seconds with his hands on his knees, semi-supported by the catcher, then he staggered one step sideways and went down to his knees. He was completely on instinct there for about 20 seconds, lights were on but nobody was home.
@@Moose6340It was a clear definition of lights on but no body home. I do agree with Jeremy that I believe that Jennings was the scariest one of all.
scary scary look in his eyes
Nothing behind the eyes
@@Moose6340Only 60ft 6inches from home plate and the ball coming at you 100+plus MPH reaction time is a blink of an eye if that.
0:18
Good lord. That is one hell of a knot on his head
I got hit on my forehead so hard it literally looked like I had a golf ball under my skin
Lmmfao isn't it hilarious?!?
It’s hilarious 😂😂 he got publicly EMBARRASSED 😂😂 BONK!
Thats 20 seconds after it happened imagine the next morning, yikes 😅.
I can't imagine what'd I'd be like to be the batter who hit one of these. You immediately feel bad but then still have to run to first. It's really horrible that there isn't an immediate stoppage of play for injury. I know it'd be impractical, but the people are the important part of the sport at the end of the day.
Won’t be surprised if we start seeing head and face protective gear on pitchers in the near future. Batters and catchers are expecting the ball to come at them and are much more readily able to dodge out of the way than a pitcher who’s just thrown the ball, and they wear helmets. The ball can also come at a pitcher significantly faster than a pitch headed towards the batter.
yea fr if it was me i’d prolly just run to the dugout cuz i wouldn’t be able to say i got a base when i hit the pitcher in the face but that’s just me
@@gurk_the_magnificent9008 that will probably at some point be a possibility, the other thing pitchers have to defend themselves from a line drive minus their glove is. Most have kinda like plates on the sides of their hats that are built into it but it doesn't help much, in little league and high school I was beaned back at the mound twice. Once hit my throwing shoulder and the other the side of my head, the second one I was never the same and couldn't really get on the mound anymore after...
You could not enforce an immediate stoppage rule even if you put it in place because it violates both human pyschology and common sense. It's literally three or four seconds that they continue playing and most of the time it's because they haven't registered what happened. Even when you see a thing like that you're naturally on autopilot a few seconds. The players also aren't the ones who give attention to the injured person beyond verbal "Are you ok". It's the trainers. If anything, a lot of players around distracts and hinders the trainers from getting to the injured player. The trainers start moving from the dugout as soon as it's clear they're needed. There's no reason to penalize the players for acting on instinct for four seconds when there's nothing useful they could do anyway to help the injured man.
@@gurk_the_magnificent9008 it's actually why you're taught from a young age to be ready to field the ball.
I know in girls soft all at the HS level the pitchers wear masks/helmets but the ball is bigger there's an issue with vision if they out a mask on and a helmet will fall in the windup.
People think a 90mph fastball hurts, which it does but a liner screaming back at you at 105 is terrifying.
Well there's the addition of pitches have a certain range of control. Like one getting away from you vs intentional hitting....there's a bit of a faded line. You'd need to be so unbelievably talented to be able to hit a 98mph fast ball with a bat with enough control to snipe the pitcher's head. That's 10000% a freak accident. Like the entire 178 degrees of where you could hit on the surface of both the ball and the bat and then the some -12 degrees to 89 degrees range vertically and about 130 degrees horizontally from the plate, they hit the perfect spot to send that fastball right back at the pitcher's face. It's beyond terrifying, it's something that statistically shouldn't be happening in like centuries between incidents.
At those speeds they're like a massive bullet. It's a miracle that none of these hits resulted in fatalities. I have always believed that Pitchers should have to wear protective gear just like the Catchers do. When that ball comes off of that bat, the Pitcher is both the closest to that projectile, and the one in the most immediate line of fire. I don't care if some people think it's "inconvenient" or "unnecessary". It'd rather have Pitchers wear protective gear and never end up needing it, than to have them go without and get nailed by a comebacker like these....or in a worst-case scenario, ending up six feet under. The lives and well-being of these players should be more important than anything else.
All were scary as heck but every time i see the Jennings clip, i cringe. He was out on his feet. 😮
I knew Matt Shoemaker, we went to church together growing up. He wound up having to get surgery to relieve some swelling on his brain after this, but he’s fine now
Praise the lord
Lmao
@@AnthonyDunker-b8owhat’s funny?
Me too!!! You grew up in Virginia? Or when he lived in pa?
3:11 I know the pitcher got hit, but 3rd baseman made a great catch.
Bros spotlight got stolen
Not trying to kill the mood but what a fucking catch by the third baseman on the Robbie ray one
I came to the comments to see if anyone caught that. That play was amazing minus ray getting hit
I actually had to replay it and be like "wait did he catch that?!" What an unreal catch.
So scary. I don’t know how this doesn’t happen more often.
The way pitchers follow through with their pitch, they are in no position to protect themselves.
yea its very common nowadays that youre taught to bring the back leg down into a fielding position like an infielder so that this is much less common
I was surprised at how many lefties were in this comp. And I have never seen a comebacker to the head live but I imagine it is far more terrifying.
I took one in amateur ball (got me in the ear)…and you really don’t remember it. At least I didn’t. It might not be major league, but still.
Hell hath no fury like a 110 mile-an-hour leather sphere coming right back at you.
When Aroldis Chapman was a Red, he took a come-backer to the head in a Spring Training game that required surgery. Could have killed him.
I got a line drive right back at me to the face when I was 15. Caught it turned and threw it to second for a double. I still remember it like it was yesterday chills run down my back. There’s no thinking in these just reaction time. Glad I caught if not I wouldn’t have my real teeth. Felt like the best player to touch that mound lol
3:34. Excellent show of sportsmanship
I hate how basic human compassion is “good sportsmanship”
Yea I mean it’s a highly competitive game but at the end of the day it’s just a game
Not really though. Not for the players. It's literally thier job and livelihood. It's a game for the fans.
@@adventuregames424 doesn’t mean they can’t show a little compassion when stuff like this happens
@OzielGuerraJr I feel like they all showed that. In every clip, they all look worried, and they are on their knees and showing respect.
I got a softball in my face on my left eye, 6 stitches out cold for mins , unconscious, concussion.
I got a baseball strike in my nose. I was the pitcher and another person was at bat hit the ball and when straight into my nose. It was bad.
I drilled my teammate with a softball once. I felt so bad.. he lost some teeth and had like 10 stitches inside his mouth. We were playing catch and on one throw I let it rip and he was not expecting such a fast ball. Ouch!
@@webdev217 that's all bad. Hope he was ok.
4:38 This was one scary shot. You can't see in this edit, but the camera looked Jennings straight in the face. I have never seen a more literal example of "the lights are on but nobody's home". His eyes looked bestial, no active intelligence behind them at all.
Every time I see the clip of Jennings' soul trying to leave his body I cringe. That's so hard to watch.
Cmon now you didn't see his soul leaving his body pretty dramatic aren't you
That first KC pitcher is damn lucky it didn’t hit his temple😮
They showed that Jennings hit twice, the one that I remember most is from the late 80's, involving the Giants, when Will Clark played first base
I appreciate injury compilations that stay long enough for us to see the aftermath & the player leaving the field.
That's hard to watch.
I have a serious concussion from a car accident. I hit the windshield and had on a seat belt but I was never the same. I have some double vision. I forgot people's names that I knew for 15 years. I may stutter and i may be slower to think of a joke. I used to be very fast with jokes and come backs but now those jokes just hit a wall at times.
I've come a long way though and I've seriously improved over the years. I'm almost totally healed but that was 27 years ago.
Concussions can be very serious.
Does anyone else have a headache after watching this? I hope all the players are okay ❤
The fact that some of these players are able to walk off the field after getting hit in the face by a hard ball at over 100 mph. Shows just how F'N Tough these players are. My respects to them.
Tough now. Wait and see what neurodegenerative disorder pops up later in life.
You gotta love the sportsmanship. When trainers from BOTH benches rush the mound to make sure they’re ok. 105 mph to the dome is highly not recommended.
Of all these hits Jennings is by far the scariest because of his reaction.
I’m telling you…
I’ve seen others where pitchers, catchers and umpires get drilled. The other person felt horrible, especially the one where a 2 year old was hit. Personally I would never bring a kid that young there.
The fact that some of these pitchers just walk it off is wild!
Gut wrenching stuff. I remember Daryl Kile getting hit in the mouth and staying in the game. One of the most unbelievable things I ever saw.
The sound some of these head shots make is truly horrifying!
I hit one back to the mound in pony league that had ambulences show up. thank god one of the coaches was an emt. hit him square on the the breast bone. stopped his heart. I skipped a year of playing because of it. My heart goes out to these pitchers.
You can see the humanity of the batters/runners who pause mid running to the base. More concerned with the accident than the game.
Ive never understood why pitchers arent mandated to wear a batters helmet.
Wild that the A’s have let go of so much talent, in the Chris basset clip it’s just josh Harrison and starling marte sitting in the outfield
Their owner just loves to cry poor. Like the Cleveland Guardians.
So why can't pitchers wear helmets? Even some new age flexible foam that form fits around the head?
That last guy was posturing in a way that means brain trauma. It's just a matter of time before someone dies.
Maybe the field vision. Maybe.
He had to have emergency surgery. They had to temporarily remove part of his skull to relieve the swelling pressure on his brain. took him like almost a year to recover.
Question: Is there any rule that forbids the player to check or assist the injured pitcher? I maaaay understand that arriving 1st base until the umpires pause the game for medical check, but after...is the player (who swing the bat) unable to leave the bse and check fot the other? I would inmediatly run to the pitcher after waching that my hit hurt them like that.
I always have a hard time watching this stuff. As someone who pitched softball and lob ball, and who has been hit in the head honestly a handful of times, it's tough to watch.
I wear a mask now because equipment is so advanced now and the softballs come back even faster now.
Amazing that this doesn't happen more often but I guess until it becomes more commonplace or a pitcher is killed there wont be much done to prevent this. That said, I would not want to see pitchers wearing helmets or face masks but I know years of attempts to create hats with some form of protection never banned out. And of course to be effective in this hyper competitive environment focusing on finishing in a defensive posture is discouraged.
I like how both team show emotions when someone gets injured. They have the same job that they love and it sucks when it’s a career ending injury
When i was playing college ball had a hitback break our pitchers eye socket and he was blind in that eye for a couple of months.
On the other hand this is one of the best offense moves a batter can make
How does this not open a huge cut? Boxers get cut with pillow fists.
Speed of the baseball vs. Speed of a boxing glove
My son's all played Little League baseball and the pictures all had to wear helmets because of a junior high kid that got hit in the head and had brain damage. Why do MLB pitchers not wear helmets? If they get hit this often it seems like a very serious health hazard!
Players Union CBA makes it optional for them I am pretty sure...they probably have to do that cuz no one wants to play this very skillful, yet fuckin boring ass game....
It’s not that often.
It’s honestly amazing some of these guys don’t get brain damage or even die from these. God is great !
I was at the Dbacks game where Bradley got smoked. I won’t ever forget the sound it made when he got hit.
This right here is the reason pitchers need protective head gear. They are closer to the batter than any other player other than the catcher. They don't have but milliseconds to react.
The teams both teams seem more interested in the game than the downed man. In UK in football and cricket very often its the opposing team who are there to help first
Pretty decent succes rate of getting the runner out after the pitchers gets smashed in the face.
I have said this in other comback videos. The play needs to immediately stop and attention is needed. The guy can take first. Theres more important crap than continuing the play. I wish they would wear helmets but this play doesn't happen enough to justify the "keep on playing" mentality.
You could not enforce that rule even if you put it in place because it violates both human pyschology and common sense. It's literally three or four seconds that they continue playing and most of the time it's because they haven't seen or registered what happened. Even when you see a thing like that you're naturally on autopilot a few seconds. The players also aren't the ones who give attention to the injured person beyond verbal "Are you ok". It's the trainers. If anything, a lot of players around distracts and hinders the trainers from getting to the injured player. The trainers start moving from the dugout as soon as it's clear they're needed. There's no reason to penalize the players for acting on instinct for four seconds when there's nothing useful they could do anyway to help the injured man.
what do you think the players are gonna do to help a guy with a broken head??
Do you think the trainers are standing at the dugout steps waiting for this to happen? The trainers would take the same amount of time to get out there even if the play was stopped immediately. They aren't just waiting for the play to end to start helping the guy, in some of these plays like the Cobb play they're already crossing the foul line to get him attention before the ball is even dead
I was playing catcher at my baseball game and we have a pitcher machine and I got in the private spot. No armor no ground just straight there and you know what my coach said when I was crying bc of it. Walk it off but luckily I was able to stay in the game
The sound at 3:52 was terrible!
Pitchers should wear masks and helmets like catchers do.
I love this channel
We need to have pitchers wear helmets
St Louis was in a surprising amount of these, and always the ones on assault.
I didn't realize how much that organization truly hates pitching.
I knew they hated acquiring pitching for their roster, but apparently they hate all pitching and are actively and aggressively trying to remove it from the league.
Great vid man,need more of these😁
If it whacks the pitcher on the noggin, bounces up into the air, and somebody catches it before it hits the ground, does the pitcher get credited with an assist?
By rule, yes.
Props to all these pitchers for fighting through it
The Jennings clip always gives me chills. The way he kind of runs around is similar to an animal after hitting a window or crashing into something
Nervous energy
Pitchers need some kind of head protection
I'm all for pitchers wearing helmets
Some really savage bell ringers
0:19 Oh man.. I didn't know I'd be able to see the bruise of it 😫 That's pretty mad, and I really wanna know the outcome of what happened to them later. And this might be a dumb question, but.. can a hit from a baseball that fast and solid cause a cranial fracture?
I would say on average the ball travels at an exit velocity of 100mph once hit off of the bat, so it is just a matter of the angle and trajectory of the ball at that point determining if it hits the Pitcher or not. Think of a car accident at the speed but rather than the impact spread across your entire body it is focused and all confined down to a small area increasing the kinetic energy into a fine point making it much easier to penetrate through, or to shatter the bones very violently in a small area....so do you want the impact of a 100mph car crash focused all its power as its smashing into your eye socket would you think that is:
1) No big deal, walk it off!
or
2) Very very bad!!!!!!!!!!
yes....the answer is YES! it almost certainly will break something in your face....
Yarborough and Cobb took full energy direct hits…
They should give pitchers special helmets or something so they won't get hurt in the head and face
never thought id see a compilation of why i dont play baseball but here we are
This is exactly why I decided baseball wasn't for me.
I’ll bet Robbie Ray has a laugh about his. About how far it bounced, and the fact that they third baseman made sure it was an out, for him getting hit in the head
Imo this is the primary reason Bonds didn't want to hit against Jenny Finch. He could've killed her fairly easily with a comebacker.
Has anyone ever lied down and thrown a baseball up so you can catch it?
I did that once and missed and it smacked me right in the mouth. My lip was bleeding and that was only from like 8 feet in the air at a free fall.
I could not imagine being hit by a comeback ball.
This happens way more often than I realized.
Happ also was in a collision compilation as well..
No baseballs were harmed during the creation of this video.
This video popped up in my feed today and goddamn did it trigger. I was a fastpitch pitcher for 10 years growing up and i took a line drive to the jaw after ricocheting off my forearm. Even after the ricochet (which docs xrayed twice because they werent convinced it wasnt fractured the first time), i atill had stitch marks going up my jawline and would have had to have my jaw reconstructed if it had been an 1/8th of a inch lower. Each and every one of these made me cringe, I was actually at the game where Shoemaker was hit, but yeah...Jennings was by far the most terrifying.
Being up and on your feet means nothing when it comes to concussion. There can still be damage. There have been intances where people have had head injuries, seemed absolutely fine and shown no symptoms, and the next thing you know they're dead from a bleed on the brain.
greg maddux comes to mind when I see this, when he ended his pitching motion he was in a fielding position whereas these guys are sitting ducks
no wonder they consider they consider the pitcher the most dangerous position in baseball
So i think the throwers also need protection
McCarthy didn't know where he was for a few minutes I believe
An small reminder that baseball is dangerous.
Baseballs hit by a bat and a hockey puck after a slapshot 2 things I never wanna take to the head/face
Honestly, a 10min video of this shit and still no pitchers headwear yet 😂
Glad to hear thank God
100+ mph to the head with no helmet. These could be career enders.
You can literally see the knot growing on his head in the first one
About 120 mph back at them , that's equals to about a half a second to get out of the way .good luck. Scary😮
I took a falcon from a missed catch from mid field. That mf hurt, I can’t imagine the pain from a 105 line drive to the face
Every single baseball player is tougher than any current basketball player. Especially LeBron "the flop" James. Lol
This just happend to me today but in the front shoulder
Coming from a pitcher whos had this happen before, i can tell you it most definitely sucks.
Unfortunately, its part of the game.
Can a hit like that rupture your eardrum?
Ole “Granite Head” Stephens they used to call him.
"baseball isnt boring" *continues to show pitchers getting nailed for 10 minutes*
Luckily they're alive to tell... So strong to be beaten in the head by a 100 mph ball.
9:21 Seriously guy? Shame on that white Sox fan. Not the time.
I remember when Castellanos hit Feltner. I felt so bad for him
I understand that it’s baseball but when a pitcher gets hit everyone should stop at their bases and just wait to see if their ok