This is what fear and negative thinking can do to you. He obviously has the physical ability to be a somewhat high level pitcher, otherwise he wouldn't be there. He just never learned the mental side of baseball. He thought "don't fuck up....don't throw it away...I hope I don't screw this up.." and that's what made him screw up.
This pitcher had the yips very common with people with anxiety issues. Its hard to explain but I had to give up pitching because of it. I dont know what triggered my yips but basically i couldnt find my release point and the more I thought about it the worse it became. Got so bad I couldnt put a golf ball on a tee bc I knew people where focused on my hand and what I was doing. Its brutal feel sorry for this guy not his fault.
I had anxiety pitching in a champ little league game. I could throw much harder than the coach's kid but didn't have much experience pitching in high pressure situations, because I was normally outfield. Coach yelled me in to relief. In result, I halted during 3 consecutive wind-ups (balks), when the batters squared up to bunt. Took 3 times for me to get over it and follow through with the pitch. They were certainly milking me for what they could. We still won, but barely. I can understand how this pitcher could do this because it just snowballs with each pitch sparking more and more anxiety.
100% of the blame belongs to the manager. When you see your pitcher is incapable of throwing intentional balls, you don't make him continue doing it. Sometimes you just gotta let them play ball instead of this strategy bullshit.
Walter White That's right, 100%. It's one thing when a pitcher throws a wild pitch on the first or second throw. But after that, the manager should see that the pitcher is incapable of any control throwing intentional balls and make corrective action. He should either give his pitcher the ok to pitch to the batter or make a call to the bullpen. Either way, theres no excuse for ordering the pitcher to continue doing what he's unable to do.
nope, not at all thankyou, just sick and tired of all the mouth running and little fact checking. everyone is entitled to thier opinion, right or wrong, but, you call me names or insult my intelligence, i will respond. thus, he did ......and i responded. probably a bi-polar day when i replied, so i was *just a little bit* wound up at the time. could have been my dad for all i know.....oh well. have a nice day
wow, getting called a pussy by some idiot douche that likes to watch men work out videos, ouch that hurts. as cartman would say.......kinda gay, isnt it? kisses
no it wasn't a bad call bill belichick never ran that defensive front all year. it was a goal line defense designed to stop the run, carrel knew that much so he decided to pass. turns out that the Patriots also recognized the pass play the seahawks were going to run. the Patriots coaches told Butler to jump the route in practice and pregame. there's tape on all of this. Belichick's the greatest coach of all time. he saved a play all season and didn't call it until the very last play of the superbowl... incredible. who knows what other shit that guys got hidden away. he was even considering using the fair catch drop kick rule at the end of the 4th quarter in superbowl 51. look that play up if you don't already know it, 41 years of coaching, he doesn't miss a whole lot of opportunities to exploit "unknown" rules.
Not surprisingly, Odom only pitched 2 innings as a 28-year-old independent league veteran who never really touched success. His stat line for 2007: 13.50 ERA, 2 Innings, 1 IBB and 4 Wild Pitches. Career over. This was probably the last pitch he ever threw.
That dude threw that game, NO pitcher throws that many wild pitches on an intentional walk, I don't care if he pitched five straight open to close, a president throwing out the first pitch couldn't look that bad 4-5 times in a row. lol That pitcher has Pete Rose syndrome.
Absolutely. I can't believe more people don't see this. Watch his arm on the last pitch on the slo-mo replay. He threw right into the ground, that's no accident!
***** Yeah, in tee-ball. I remember that. These are professionals, do you think they would miss you in a game of catch? Doubt it, unless he was betting against you catching it. lol
as a pitcher who's gone through the yips, I feel it for this guy. It's not easy for some people to throw it to the other batter's box because there's no target there..
how much money could he have on the game where it would make up for a chance at the big leagues? I'm not opposing you, but i don't see the reasoning. I know people can sometimes do crazy things
Exactly. I had it for half a year, set me back with my coaches. I went from starting catcher lead off, to bench. Finally at the end of the year I got to start out in Center but I was unfortunately DH'd for
I'm sorry, but when I see pitching _this_ bad, I can't help but wonder if there wasn't some high stakes betting involved and a good payoff for that pitcher.
The pitcher couldn't have known in advance the game would go 12 innings and he would come in to pitch. It's just a mental error with the game on the line.
Not really, it's not that easy to switch from throwing 90 mph to a lob. The problem is this guy tries to compensate by completely changing his timing and mechanics. You are better off just firing an 80 mph accurate pitch than a 40 mph crazy lob.
Yeah, pitchers don't practice throwing to the catcher at 40mph. But also, he knew the game was on the line, big crowd, he choked. Better to assume incompetence as opposed to malice.
Martin Gardner Its true. Situations where you are required to throw an intentional walk are very rare so pitchers don't tend to practice it at all. I only practiced it once I got to college and you would be surprised how many people would fuck up their mechanics, forget to use their legs at all, and throw a weak inaccurate lob just to get the ball across, and that was even with zero pressure.
The pitcher is attempting to walk(give a free base to) the batter by pitching 4 balls outside of the strikezone because the batter is very good and if he may score the runner on third base if he gets a hit. However, he throws the ball in the dirt each time until the ball gets far enough away from the catcher for the runner on third to steal home and win the game. Basically the pitcher lost the game because he could not play a simple game of catch. Hope that was a good explanation.
Happened to the LA Angels last year - a walk-off wild pitch on an intentional walk with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 10th. If you try to throw it like a dart instead of a normal pitch, it's easy to do.
This guy is used to throwing full speed. When you go from throwing 90+ to lobbing it, you have to gain a sense of how much elevation you need to get the ball across the plate. It's completely different, and in high pressure situations, like relieving the the 12th inning, this seems much harder and causes you to over think. He didn't intentionally lose the game for the team, he just over thought a normally simple process. If he was throwing the game, he would have done it on the first few pitches
I'm watching this and laughing my butt off and then I realized this is my hometown team that lost the game. Great pitching Lancaster Barnstormers lol. Now, I am laughing even more.
Sorry, correction: The pitcher is trying to walk two batters so that the bases will be loaded and they can get an out by throwing the ball to any base instead of having to tag the runner.
its a high pressure situation, its extended innings, game is tied 6 - 6, and its 1 out and hes told to intentionally walk each batter with a dude waiting on third base ready to score at any time. The psychological aspect of competitive sports is probably not emphasized in most non professional athletes on how to deal with negative thoughts.
I've seen wild pitches on intentional walks twice in the Appy League (rookie league level), but not walk off style like this. In fact I was talking about it one night to the guys in the bullpen and that very night it happened again! Once it scored the winning run in extra innings (not a walk off) and the next time it just cost a run late in a game that was lost any way.
D Backs walked Bonds with the bases loaded a few years ago, when Brenly was the manager. It worked as well. They won. So, in certain rare situations there is a "place to put him" if it's a very dangerous hitter in a weak lineup.
I've had a situation where my teammate (who was the best hitter on our team) was being intentionally walked, but a pitch came just close enough and he destroyed it and got a home run! :)
I was in a recent clubhouse tour with the patriots, and it was revealed that there were some dealings between the umpires to throw the game, not from the patriots
There was an old Shoe Sunday comic where Skylar is pitching. He delivers four absolutely wild balls which the catcher has to leap and lunge all over the place for. Catcher calls time and says he's quitting. Skylar protests, "You can't quit! Where am I gonna get another catcher?" Catcher responds, "You don't need a catcher. You need a *goalie*." Meh. Sports. Whaddya gonna do.
manager of the year right there lol. I bet all 1.3 million people watching this 2 minute youtube video could tell this pitcher's command was completely lost, yet the manager somehow thinks he's going to be able to pitch the intentional ball to the catcher, after already failing to do so like 5 times.
Actually, the catcher has his left foot outside the box on every one of those pitches. That would be a balk, resulting in the runner scoring from third anyway. Didn't matter one bit where he threw the ball.
I see what you're saying but I don't really think that's the case. I've played baseball my whole life and a similar thing happened to me in high school, when you try to slow down your velocity sometimes it messes with your head and you seem unable to throw the ball.
apparently that was the last game he played, he played 2 games with Lancaster 0 wins 1 lost 13.50 ERA 2 innings pitched allowed 4 runs 4 hits no SO's in 2007
your right...it took him a while b/c he knew what he was about to do but wanted to make it loo as legit as possible.. he was finding out the his catcher was in it to win it..
For everyone who is saying this guy is an idiot is very ignorant to a very real issue for many athletes. This is called the yips. It happens when pitchers or anyone throwing a ball think too much about the release point. It can get worse and worse over years, and many major league players have had this psychological problem. People end their baseball careers because of issues like these because they are so difficult to fix
LOL oh man.. odom was released after this game and ended his career with the final stat line of: 1-3, 8.09 ERA, 5 SV, 51.2 IP, 27 BB, 29 K, 7 WP, 2.13 WHIP
Anyone who was taught to throw a baseball properly or with any kind of higher level training (high school, college, hell even little league) will tell you that the pitching motion at 1:22 was purposeful to where the ball was thrown..
This is why baseball shouldn't change the way intentional walks work.
I totally agree! 100%
except that this would never happen in the MLB.
Sure about that?
Yeah.
***** I told you before. It has happened in MLB. For some reason youtube just decided to delete my reply like it normally does.
This is what fear and negative thinking can do to you. He obviously has the physical ability to be a somewhat high level pitcher, otherwise he wouldn't be there. He just never learned the mental side of baseball. He thought "don't fuck up....don't throw it away...I hope I don't screw this up.." and that's what made him screw up.
This pitcher had the yips very common with people with anxiety issues. Its hard to explain but I had to give up pitching because of it. I dont know what triggered my yips but basically i couldnt find my release point and the more I thought about it the worse it became. Got so bad I couldnt put a golf ball on a tee bc I knew people where focused on my hand and what I was doing. Its brutal feel sorry for this guy not his fault.
50 cent decided to be a pitcher
They should have pulled him then grab a random fan from the stands to pitch instead.
+goodman528 I think that at 38 and with a bad arm I would have done a better job
My question is How much was the other team paying him
+michael tremblay houston.mlblogs.com/2009/03/09/pitcher-half-empty/
+Derek Cormier haha
They are the Patriots what do you expect? 😂
+Frank Glaser lol
lol go lions eve though they suck
50 Cent Makes His Pitching Debut!
Clear throw of a game
Wait? How is this even possible? A wild pitch on an intentional walk? Sounds like something out of the "Bad News Bears"
We'll trade you Clay Buchholz and a bag of baseballs for this guy
+Mason Sousa I got a dish washer, that good?
+李岱文 Deal
+李岱文 yeah? What's her name?
*Still a better pitcher than Clay Bucholtz
I had anxiety pitching in a champ little league game. I could throw much harder than the coach's kid but didn't have much experience pitching in high pressure situations, because I was normally outfield. Coach yelled me in to relief. In result, I halted during 3 consecutive wind-ups (balks), when the batters squared up to bunt. Took 3 times for me to get over it and follow through with the pitch. They were certainly milking me for what they could. We still won, but barely. I can understand how this pitcher could do this because it just snowballs with each pitch sparking more and more anxiety.
Wtf are you trying to say bro
100% of the blame belongs to the manager. When you see your pitcher is incapable of throwing intentional balls, you don't make him continue doing it. Sometimes you just gotta let them play ball instead of this strategy bullshit.
100%?
Walter White That's right, 100%. It's one thing when a pitcher throws a wild pitch on the first or second throw. But after that, the manager should see that the pitcher is incapable of any control throwing intentional balls and make corrective action. He should either give his pitcher the ok to pitch to the batter or make a call to the bullpen. Either way, theres no excuse for ordering the pitcher to continue doing what he's unable to do.
He never pitched again for the Barnstormers. He was released 17 days later and that was the end of his career.
Nice work Carly Rae Jepsen.
stupidist thing i have seen since pete carroll calls a passing play on the 1 yard line, costing seahawks another superbowl
hellboywithhorns Insecure much? Lol
nope, not at all thankyou, just sick and tired of all the mouth running and little fact checking. everyone is entitled to thier opinion, right or wrong, but, you call me names or insult my intelligence, i will respond. thus, he did ......and i responded. probably a bi-polar day when i replied, so i was *just a little bit* wound up at the time. could have been my dad for all i know.....oh well. have a nice day
wow, getting called a pussy by some idiot douche that likes to watch men work out videos, ouch that hurts. as cartman would say.......kinda gay, isnt it? kisses
How is it gay to watch instructional videos?
no it wasn't a bad call bill belichick never ran that defensive front all year. it was a goal line defense designed to stop the run, carrel knew that much so he decided to pass. turns out that the Patriots also recognized the pass play the seahawks were going to run. the Patriots coaches told Butler to jump the route in practice and pregame. there's tape on all of this. Belichick's the greatest coach of all time. he saved a play all season and didn't call it until the very last play of the superbowl... incredible. who knows what other shit that guys got hidden away. he was even considering using the fair catch drop kick rule at the end of the 4th quarter in superbowl 51. look that play up if you don't already know it, 41 years of coaching, he doesn't miss a whole lot of opportunities to exploit "unknown" rules.
When I clicked on this video I wasn't expecting to see the team that is only 10 minutes from my house. Awesome video!
This is the equivalent of scoring on your own net.
or like when u almost score on your own net, and 5 minutes later you actually score on your net.
Not surprisingly, Odom only pitched 2 innings as a 28-year-old independent league veteran who never really touched success.
His stat line for 2007: 13.50 ERA, 2 Innings, 1 IBB and 4 Wild Pitches.
Career over.
This was probably the last pitch he ever threw.
Some would argue why was he even out there in a close game... Bullpen must have been worked the last week or so...
Was that 50 cent?
Congrats on 800 subscribers. I subbed when u were on 250.
how drunk was this guy....
Oh YEAH!!!!!!! He is going to the show, LETS GO!!!!!!!!!
I didn't know that Baba Booey's brother played baseball.
Bob Snow mouhahaha!
That guys a hero I commend him for how brilliant he is
That dude threw that game, NO pitcher throws that many wild pitches on an intentional walk, I don't care if he pitched five straight open to close, a president throwing out the first pitch couldn't look that bad 4-5 times in a row. lol That pitcher has Pete Rose syndrome.
I know, right? There is no way you can be that bad.
Absolutely. I can't believe more people don't see this. Watch his arm on the last pitch on the slo-mo replay. He threw right into the ground, that's no accident!
Right, I bet that pitcher made loot on his betting lines. lol
***** Yeah, in tee-ball. I remember that. These are professionals, do you think they would miss you in a game of catch? Doubt it, unless he was betting against you catching it. lol
P.S. I'm assuming you were joking, in which case, haha, well played sir.
as a pitcher who's gone through the yips, I feel it for this guy. It's not easy for some people to throw it to the other batter's box because there's no target there..
Honestly, the pitcher threw the game, must have had money riding on it.
Thats what.I'm thinking. He threw the game.
how much money could he have on the game where it would make up for a chance at the big leagues? I'm not opposing you, but i don't see the reasoning. I know people can sometimes do crazy things
Its possible he owed somebody and made him throw the game
dante ferrarini that's plausible. you never know what someone's life is like outside the diamond
Didn't realize so many people bet on horseshit minor league games watched by no one.
Exactly. I had it for half a year, set me back with my coaches. I went from starting catcher lead off, to bench. Finally at the end of the year I got to start out in Center but I was unfortunately DH'd for
I'm sorry, but when I see pitching _this_ bad, I can't help but wonder if there wasn't some high stakes betting involved and a good payoff for that pitcher.
The pitcher couldn't have known in advance the game would go 12 innings and he would come in to pitch. It's just a mental error with the game on the line.
Same, like what if somebody payed him to lose
Not really, it's not that easy to switch from throwing 90 mph to a lob. The problem is this guy tries to compensate by completely changing his timing and mechanics. You are better off just firing an 80 mph accurate pitch than a 40 mph crazy lob.
Yeah, pitchers don't practice throwing to the catcher at 40mph. But also, he knew the game was on the line, big crowd, he choked.
Better to assume incompetence as opposed to malice.
Martin Gardner Its true. Situations where you are required to throw an intentional walk are very rare so pitchers don't tend to practice it at all. I only practiced it once I got to college and you would be surprised how many people would fuck up their mechanics, forget to use their legs at all, and throw a weak inaccurate lob just to get the ball across, and that was even with zero pressure.
Haha I'm glad I have you to tell me what jokes are good and/or bad. Thanks my man.
hmmm.... looked to me like that ball stuck to his hand. Too much pine tar?
God Bless the Atlantic League
never a dull moment
Patriots? That baseball must have been deflated...
The pitcher is attempting to walk(give a free base to) the batter by pitching 4 balls outside of the strikezone because the batter is very good and if he may score the runner on third base if he gets a hit. However, he throws the ball in the dirt each time until the ball gets far enough away from the catcher for the runner on third to steal home and win the game. Basically the pitcher lost the game because he could not play a simple game of catch. Hope that was a good explanation.
Worst... Pitcher... Ever
I see things like this and it makes me think about trying out for my university team again
and he gets paid to play???? lmfao
Right that was terrible
@JCSCougar I think somebody did. That pitcher's name is AJ Burnett.
he must have been paid to do this
Happened to the LA Angels last year - a walk-off wild pitch on an intentional walk with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 10th. If you try to throw it like a dart instead of a normal pitch, it's easy to do.
Someone should keep an eye on that pitcher for the next few days. Keep sharp objects and rope away from him...
lmao
Good to see that .50 hasn't given up his baseball dreams.
This guy is used to throwing full speed. When you go from throwing 90+ to lobbing it, you have to gain a sense of how much elevation you need to get the ball across the plate. It's completely different, and in high pressure situations, like relieving the the 12th inning, this seems much harder and causes you to over think. He didn't intentionally lose the game for the team, he just over thought a normally simple process. If he was throwing the game, he would have done it on the first few pitches
I'm watching this and laughing my butt off and then I realized this is my hometown team that lost the game. Great pitching Lancaster Barnstormers lol. Now, I am laughing even more.
Sorry, correction: The pitcher is trying to walk two batters so that the bases will be loaded and they can get an out by throwing the ball to any base instead of having to tag the runner.
The title of this video makes me happy
1:52 there it is!
This guy is probably a fan of the new way intentional walks are done.
Excellent work, detective
If you would press "Show the comment" then you would realize he's not talking about this video, he's talking about the Angels game last year.
Cause he's got mad swagger bro
its a high pressure situation, its extended innings, game is tied 6 - 6, and its 1 out and hes told to intentionally walk each batter with a dude waiting on third base ready to score at any time. The psychological aspect of competitive sports is probably not emphasized in most non professional athletes on how to deal with negative thoughts.
I like how the pitcher starts running towards where the ball is going like he's gonna do something to help the situation.
I've seen wild pitches on intentional walks twice in the Appy League (rookie league level), but not walk off style like this. In fact I was talking about it one night to the guys in the bullpen and that very night it happened again! Once it scored the winning run in extra innings (not a walk off) and the next time it just cost a run late in a game that was lost any way.
D Backs walked Bonds with the bases loaded a few years ago, when Brenly was the manager. It worked as well. They won. So, in certain rare situations there is a "place to put him" if it's a very dangerous hitter in a weak lineup.
That is merely incredible😄
And then he does it more than one time too!
Dude had the yips; terrible feeling for anyone who has to go through it.
There's always that guy. You're that guy.
i love how the announcer said "THERE IT IS" cuz he knew it was coming
Usually people are exaggerating when they say "I could have done that without screwing it up", but this time, I COULD HAVE DONE THAT.
I've had a situation where my teammate (who was the best hitter on our team) was being intentionally walked, but a pitch came just close enough and he destroyed it and got a home run! :)
To be fair, a lot of those pitches would be called strike by Angel Hernandez.
Happens more often than you would think. Saw it in the bigs a couple weeks ago
In the words of Chris Farley....... "I feel like a horses' patoote"!!!!
Crazy play, but the Patriots came back from a 28-3 deficit.
Have no doubt that the pitcher got himself a nice new car after that pitch.
Wow. What the heck happened with the game on my team today and the Hulk Hogan is a great video.
I was in a recent clubhouse tour with the patriots, and it was revealed that there were some dealings between the umpires to throw the game, not from the patriots
Yep...he'll be in the Twins rotation come June 2012. He looks to pitch to contact.
@SuperLADm This isn't college baseball, it's semi-pro. This is a pro league that isn't affiliated with MLB.
He was talking about the comment he replied to, smart one.
and here we got a potential cy young's winner
There was an old Shoe Sunday comic where Skylar is pitching. He delivers four absolutely wild balls which the catcher has to leap and lunge all over the place for. Catcher calls time and says he's quitting. Skylar protests, "You can't quit! Where am I gonna get another catcher?" Catcher responds, "You don't need a catcher. You need a *goalie*."
Meh. Sports. Whaddya gonna do.
manager of the year right there lol. I bet all 1.3 million people watching this 2 minute youtube video could tell this pitcher's command was completely lost, yet the manager somehow thinks he's going to be able to pitch the intentional ball to the catcher, after already failing to do so like 5 times.
the title of this video is awesome
orange moon is definitely not a coincidence
Actually, the catcher has his left foot outside the box on every one of those pitches. That would be a balk, resulting in the runner scoring from third anyway. Didn't matter one bit where he threw the ball.
oh i was waiting for a walk-off homerun
Dude just flat out had a mental breakdown. The manager shoulda seen that coming after the first intentional walk.
I see what you're saying but I don't really think that's the case. I've played baseball my whole life and a similar thing happened to me in high school, when you try to slow down your velocity sometimes it messes with your head and you seem unable to throw the ball.
apparently that was the last game he played, he played 2 games with Lancaster 0 wins 1 lost 13.50 ERA 2 innings pitched allowed 4 runs 4 hits no SO's in 2007
Happened to the A's, wasn't a walk off but they did get a run. They also had a walk off hit by pitch.
Nolan Ryan did that 277 times in 27 seasons, and average of 10.26 WP per season.
He wasn't after this. That was the either the last, or next-to-last, game of his pro career.
Because only the runner on 3rd matter and this sets up a force play on that runner and sets up double play opportunities everywhere
that was absolutely brutal to watch
your right...it took him a while b/c he knew what he was about to do but wanted to make it loo as legit as possible.. he was finding out the his catcher was in it to win it..
His knuckler danced off the plate.
I was on a team in high school and this is how it ended. exactly like this. sucked to lose that way
Kari the reason he was left in was he is a strong actual pitcher and was the man to get out the next batter. It's a shame he can't play catch
I bet this guy will never live this down.
I can only guess the pitcher was done, both physically and mentally. The coach should have pulled him during the preceding mound visit.
"...and there it is." The broadcasters saw it coming.
"MY ARM!!! IT'S GONE!!! I CAN'T THROW HARD ANYMORE!!!" (looks up into stands at his mom) "Float it."
haha "there it is!" funny how the announcers just saw that coming
For everyone who is saying this guy is an idiot is very ignorant to a very real issue for many athletes. This is called the yips. It happens when pitchers or anyone throwing a ball think too much about the release point. It can get worse and worse over years, and many major league players have had this psychological problem. People end their baseball careers because of issues like these because they are so difficult to fix
2:25 "hey let's chuck these baseballs at people"... "OK, COOL IDEA"
I remember when I pitched my first game...
LOL oh man.. odom was released after this game and ended his career with the final stat line of: 1-3, 8.09 ERA, 5 SV, 51.2 IP, 27 BB, 29 K, 7 WP, 2.13 WHIP
Anyone who was taught to throw a baseball properly or with any kind of higher level training (high school, college, hell even little league) will tell you that the pitching motion at 1:22 was purposeful to where the ball was thrown..