Hey Kabir 😊 5:10 when you see that “94 mph” on the scoreboard that’s the speed of the pitch itself - NO TELLING what it is when it comes straight off the bat! 😬
Before they had batting helmets, way back in 1920, a player named Ray Chapman was killed when ball hit him in head at home plate. It was said you heard his skull crack up in the third deck seats. He was from my hometown and played for Cleveland Indians.
2:25 I don't recall ever being hit in the head by a baseball, but I've def. been hit in the ankle, shin, knee, thigh, stomach, arm, fingers. It hurts like H-E-double hockey sticks.
4:52 is an absolutely wild story. Adam Greenberg....That was his first career at bat. It essentially ended his career. He ended up only making it back to the majors 7 years later. He had so many nagging neurological isssues that his performance on the field never came back. In 2012, a Chicago Cubs fan started an online petition to get Greenberg another Major League plate appearance. The campaign succeeded when the Miami Marlins offered Greenberg a one-day contract to play in their October 2, 2012, home game against the New York Mets.The contract was worth $2,623, which will be donated to an organization that researches brain trauma in athletes. Prior to the game, Marlins manager Ozzie Guillén considered making Greenberg the leadoff hitter and starting him in left field, but then decided he would try to have him bat in the middle of the game and was not sure if he would allow him to run the bases. Greenberg led off the bottom of the sixth inning as a pinch hitter. The Aerosmith song "Dream On" was played through the stadium's public address system as Greenberg walked to home plate and the crowd gave him a standing ovation. He was struck out by Mets knuckleballer and eventual Cy Young Award winner R. A. Dickey on three pitches and was removed from the lineup at the end of the inning.[ Greenberg said after the game, "It was magical. The energy that was in the stadium was something that I have never experienced in my life, and I don't know if I'll ever experience that again."
99% of the time someone is hit above the neck, it’s not intentional. The unwritten rule is pretty much that if you’re gonna hit someone intentionally you hit them around the back or at the very least below the chest.
I've had several comebackers while pitching. Two times I remember getting lucky and catching the ball just by reflex, which happens fairly often. The worst I've got hurt was actually catching. I've played games with broken fingers behind the plate. I've had people hit me with the bat accidently. When I was in high school someone fouled a ball off my thigh and I had seam prints tattooed on me for weeks.
A funny story about catching. Granted this was in like 2nd or 3rd grade during coach pitch. The opposing coach, their pitcher, basically bounced it off the plate and under my gear. I wasn’t wearing a cup at the time and it hurt like crazy. Got a cup for my next game. Never caught again in my life
4:15 I don't follow baseball closely anymore. So I don't know the specifics. But I do know that American sports leagues have taken CTE very seriously, so I'd almost guarantee that MLB has some sort of protocol in place any time there is a head injury.
In 2012, one of the pitchers for my A's, Brandon McCarthy was hit in the head by a line drive and almost died and had to have emergency surgery. In 2021, another one of our pitchers, Chris Bassett was hit in the face by a line drive and had to have surgery to repair broken bones in his face! He was our best pitcher so losing him for most of the season also really hurt us!
Baseball and fast pitch softball can be so dangerous! My former friend was hit in the head by a softball once and it crushed her skull inward 😬 Luckily, she recovered well and continued playing the next year
I played Catcher for 12 years, I've had so many Foul Tips hit me but the "Worst" is when the ball is Tipped Down it hits the ground and bounces up usually near the Groin OUCH! Fouls off the Hands hurt too most Catchers put their throwing hand behind their back. If you notice many of the Pitchers get their hands up to try and stop the ball as it's coming back at them it's amazing the reaction time. If a pitcher is going to hit someone Intentionally it's usually on the Rump or Thigh never on the Nugget
I was pitching once in little league, took a line drive off my hand, it hurt BAD, iced it down, stayed in the game. Later on, for the final out, wouldn't you know it, comebacker to the mound, caught it barehanded. Same hand that got hit earlier. Massive bruise, I thought I broke it, so did a few of my teammates who said they could hear the "smack" in the dugout but it checked out. I also got hit in the "cahones" in a game once. That wasn't fun. 2 innings later back up to bat, same pitcher he hit me right around the belt. Clearly, he was doing this on purpose. I charged the mound but the coaches and the umpire got between us before we started fighting. He later admitted it was on purpose: kicked out of the league.
I got hit in the face once with a line drive while playing 3B. I was playing in and guy swung away. It felt like a concrete fist smashed me in the nose. Broke my nose, bloodied me up. Most pitches that hit in the head are pitches that got away, breaking balls that didn't break, that kind of stuff. Sometimes in the past pitchers would pitch up and in to back a player off the plate. It was called chin music. If the pitch got away someone could get beaned that way as well. I don't think that happens much anymore. Some pitchers from the nineties backwards were notorious for brushing back batters though.
I took a line drive when I was 13 or 14 that hit me under my right eye, fractured my cheek bone, partial detached retina, collapsed sinus and tear duct, and knocked unconscious for about 20 seconds, honestly it didnt hurt I woke up on my knees. It really only hurt after about a month my eye finally reopened and every blood vessel was popped and light hurt the most.
When I played baseball I got beaned quite a few times batting, but never in the head thankfully. The wost was the one year I played in a softball league, and I was pitching. I took a come-backer straight to the ribcage. I thought I was dying that day.
I got hit by the biggest kid in the league. We were up by 6 in the semi finals and to save our closer I came in. I got hit in the temple and don’t remember much but I had a concussion and when doing physical activities i still get dizzy 3 years later.
There are only three types of pitchers who would ever hit a batter in the head or anywhere else: 1)The majority of these are by mistake because the 'ball gets away from them' and it beans a player in the head. It unfortunately happens, and pitchers will usually immediately check on the player if they can, visit in the hospital, no harm, no foul, fans, coaches, all understand it's just an unfortunate part of the game. 2)The second type, are pitchers who hit batters as a form of retaliation. Pitchers do sometimes intentionally throw the ball to hit the batter if say that team did the same in a former game, there was a fight, or sometimes to just get under the skin of a really good batter to rattle them a bit. Pitchers know to hit them in such a way that they know it's intentional, but not meant to grievously injure. This is frowned upon, and if they keep it up, they will get ejected, but a good amount of teams have done this at some point. 3)However, there is the pitcher who takes it too far and intentionally hits a batter in the head. Fans and players know a pitcher did this intentionally either because of past history or warnings issued by the umpire to the pitcher in the current game. It is an official and cardinal rule that you NEVER intentionally bean someone in the head because it could seriously end a career, seriously injure them, and worse case, kill them. And because pitches like this are seen by everyone from coaches, to players, to fans, a pitcher will get booed, will get ejected from the game, it may lead to the entirety of the opposing team fighting the guy, and no one will want to be pitched to by this guy and teams really don't want someone who has a rep of having seriously injured another player.
In Baseball when you leave the game for any reason you can’t return. So when something like this happens (even if it later turns out he’s ok), you’ve lost that guy for this game.
The "Old" batting Helmets didn't have the Ear Covering now they have it on the Left for Right and Batters and opposite for Lefties. Ive seen that Little Leaguers and some Women's Fast Pitch Softball Batters wear Helmets with Face Protection Similar to Ice Hockey Clear Face Shields
In American sports, every injury is treated seriously. All teams have medics at the park to make sure the players are treated immediately in on-site state-of-the-art facilities. So, yeah - if someone gets hit by a ball, head or wherever, someone will rush to their side to assess the injury. If it looks like the player can get up & shake it off, they go back into play (as a, 'consolation', baseball batters who're hit by balls get to automatically go to 1st base), but if they can't, they'll be sent to the on-site 1st aid centre & treated. And, if they injury is really bad, they'll be whisked away to the nearest hospital. BTW, if the batter has to leave the game because of injury, another player will take their place.
Thankfully the worst I've ever experienced is a tennis ball drilled in the eye during a practice. A couple days of seeing lightning bolts (blood) through that eye.
gods, the only thing worse than getting beaned on the face has got to be the pitcher catching it straight off the bat, because then it's got all of the rebound energy from a direct hit on the bat plus the power of a professional batter's swing? like, no human could throw a baseball out of a park even with ideal conditions (wind supporting them, perfect health and best possible speed and strength, etc), but there have long been batters who could literally hit a baseball out of some stadia (obviously, it's not possible for every stadium) I mean, that could straight up kill someone
Me and my friend were playing baseball in the backyard when we was 10 and i threw a under hand pitch and he swung hard and the ball smacked me in the nose. When I tell you i had blood running down from my nose to my chin dripping off it. His granny cleaned me up though. God bless her soul 🙏🕊️
Only been hit like that with a line drive soft ball. And the two don't compare at all. So what I tell you would be way off. 6:29 There is no real way to tell if it is on purpose. Sometimes it is seen as revenge for something that happened before. So much so the umpire will toss a pitcher out of the game. But sometimes the ball really does get away from the pitcher.
The sound is MUCH louder in your head when you are hit. Head shots are very rarely intentional. Sometimes the ball just gets away from the pitcher. Body shots are a different story.
I played baseball for a long long time and I have been hit by pitches pretty much everywhere on my body. Players are taught that if being hit is unavoidable (usually fastball high and inside) to turn your back to the pitch. So the huge majority of hits are to the back/arm/butt. Now that's easier said than done (especially high level ball with 90+mph pitches are thrown). I've done the exact opposite before though and got hit directly in the cup. I've jumped pitches in the dirt, ducked, you name it. Most to the back don't hurt too bad, bicep is ok, forearm/elbow/hands SUCK. The only time I have ever been hit in the helmet was sliding for a base and the throw hitting me. Been hit in the face plenty of times fielding hard grounders with a bad hop. 25ish years ago my neighbor was coaching a coach pitch game (coaches pitch...age group 6--9) and there player named Seth Manness that drilled a line drive back at the Scott(coach) and hit him right in the face...broken jaw. That player went on to pitch in the MLB for the Cardinals. Still see his dad from time to time.
When it comes to the pitching you have to remember how fast there throwing and the motion of throwing a slight miscue, like throwing to early my like a miniscule amount changes it a lot. I was a pitcher and I hit a few people in my day. I also have been hit in the head as a pitcher and a batter. It hurts. For me the worse pain was later when the adrenaline wore off
I haven't been hit,but my Dad has. He got hit in the calf with a softball while running to home plate. That was about 15 years ago and he still has a knot on the back of his leg.
I'd say rarely does a batter get beaned on purpose and never in the head. All it takes is a slight mistake by the pitcher. A little fatigue in the arm and/or not the best grip on the ball during release. By the time the ball gets to the plate it is off course. Just getting the ball over the plate is not super easy. Look at opening pitches from celebrities or normal people. Most of the time they will practice for a few weeks just to not embarrass themselves. And it doesn't always work.
It's similar to when people wonder why the police don't shoot someone in the arm or leg, instead of shooting them in the torso. It's not that easy, like you said, anything from the officer having sweaty palms, to a gust of wind, can change the outcome.
That's why it's important to field your position. Most of these pitchers would still take a decent shot. You throw up and in to get them off the plate. The next pitch is probably on the outside corner.
Now, I’ve never been a pitcher, but I can’t imagine they’d hit someone intentionally in the head. Usually they’ll go towards the back if they are throwing at them. Some of them can’t keep their emotions in check and you can tell they feel so bad.
I've been hit in the helmet more than once. It still hurts, but it'd hurt a hell of a lot more if it wasn't there. As for getting hit by a baseball elsewhere. To put it simply it hurts no matter where it hits.
I had my nose broken in jr. high playing catcher without wearing the equipment. I was a tomboy and learned to play baseball before being made to play softball. That sucker hurts. I had two black eyes for over a month.
I was hit in the face with a line drive playing 3rd base when I was like 8 or 9. Hurt like hell and I remember having the stiches from the ball imprinted on my cheek for a couple days after.
I haven't been hit in the face with a pitch like that, but when I was a kid in PE we were playing baseball and I was placed as the catcher and the batter swung a bit crazy and hit my right in the face which resulted in my teeth going through my bottom lip, blood squirting on my horrified teacher, and a trip to the ER 🤣
I was in Major League as a young teen. Our team thought it would be fun to play a bit after the game. I was being sent to first base, with my back to the plate. I heard the crack of the bat, just to turn around and get cracked right in the forehead by the heaviest hitter on our team. The impact left the stitches from the ball on the egg that it made. It sucked! I went down like a sack of sxxt!
Nowadays 99% of these headshots to batters is unintentional. But in the 1920's, 30's, and 40's there were some pitchers that absolutely were headhunters. Especially if you did something to show up the pitcher: Take a real long trot around the bases after a home run, taunting the pitcher etc. Also if the other teams pitcher was hitting your teams batters you'd possibly have a headhunting war. Baseball was far more brutal then.
Kabir, while I don't know what it feels like to get hit that hard with a baseball, I have fallen and struck my head so hard that I separated my Scalp from my Skull. It was extremely painful.
I've commented before, but head shots are almost never intentional. There's an unwritten rule, head hunting is not allowed, people can get hurt. So if a pitcher wants to hit someone they aim for the ass or the back, it'll hurt like hell but the player probably won't get hurt
I was a catcher i had a ball ticked off got it in my mask and a batter swung and and missed got the bat in the head great position to play you are in every play .
I was never a pitcher, but I was a catcher. And a baseball off the mask feels like you just got punched all over, by hay makers. The mask just spreads the impact across a wider area. And it will loosen teeth, and your jaw fucking hurts!
I got hit on the finger (while gripping the bat) on a cold night by a pitcher that was throwing heat!!! It hurt so bad. I thought all my fingers were broken... I couldn't play for two weeks. Ouch... I cannot imagine getting hit in the face or head. A baseball is very hard and can easily fracture bones if you get hit in the wrong place.
I'm.sure the pitchers are not hitting the batters intentionally. A bad hit can do permanent damage. As for the balls hitting the pitcher, I once hit a ball that caught the pitcher right in the chest. He was still on his feet but too stunned to do anything as I ran to 1st base.
I got hit in the face with a baseball when I was 6. I wasn't even playing two of my older brothers were. The ball hit me in the face knocked me unconscious. My orbital bone was fractured when I came to paramedics were over me and I just started hysterically crying. I went on to get hit in the face with a hockey puck when I was 10 and then when I was 12 I got by collarbone broken and needed emergency surgery due to it was significantly displaced and had fragments from where it broke that same night in a different game one of my brothers got his jaw shattered with a hockey puck so we both had surgery that night.
for context: the in-game penalty for beaning the batter, intentional or not, is that the batter automatically advances to first base ("walks" in the jargon, which is also what happens when a pitcher throws four "balls" (a pitch that doesn't go through the strike zone, which is directly over home plate between the batter's shoulders and knees) is it intentional? not unless the pitcher really has a serious grudge and is not afraid to derail his career if the umpires or the league determines it was on purpose if they (the pitcher and the catcher, who work very closely together) just want to walk the batter, which they might want to do if the batter has a record of hitting a lot of home runs and they don't want to risk that happening, they'll very intentionally and very blatantly signal that they're going to do it; the catcher will stand up and hold his catcher's mitt out to whichever side the batter is not on of course, once in a great while, a pitcher and catcher will use that to get a strikeout by falsely signalling that they're going to walk the batter and then throwing a fastball right through the strike zone
Check into the Anthony Molina/Ben Christianson situation in the late 90's. Pitcher was warming up and threw a near 100mph ball at Jay Molina who was in the batters box warming up. Turned out Molina was a chomo but still, it rocked the baseball world, and the controversy that came even years after.
I got really close when I was 16. The ball was crushed right back at my face, but luck/instinct got my glove up in time to catch it. I was shaking from that adrenaline rush afterwards.
I know the feeling. Had the exact thing happen twice and same thing happened. Instinct and reflex took over and snagged it. I've had a ton of other baseball related injuries though so it evens out. Lol
I have. 10 years old. Literally the first game I play, first pitch I face in my entire life, 65-70 mile an hour cheddar straight to my gob. Quirk in our areas league setup. 2 grades were combined, and since my birthday is literally like 3 days before the cutoff, I was always THE youngest kid in my class. Other kid could have been almost 3 years older and be able to actually pitch and reach that kind of speed. Lent back instead of ducking. Pop of white and dropped to a knee. All I could do was look to my first base coach and calmly ask how bad it was because I couldn't feel a thing. Just a fast food cup of blood filled, some cuts and gashes in my lips and gum, no fractures or dental damage thankfully. No big loss, I was a dog shit hitter anyway. I did adopt a Craig Counsel esqe batting stance after that though.
Due to how the player substitution system works in baseball, players usually do not go off the field to get checked for a head injury. At the higher levels of baseball, once you are removed from a game you are not allowed to return as a substitution except maybe in very, very rare and odd circumstances. The teams' trainers come onto the field during the stoppage and will run a basic battery of tests if there is any doubt about a player continuing on in the game. Then if deemed necessary the player will be removed and replaced, otherwise they continue playing.
I remember the only time my father played catch with me I had nagged him into it. I probably had seen a kid playing catch with his dad on TV and thought it was something we should do. He threw the ball, it clonked me in the head, and that was the end of that!
It's not always intentional most of the time the ball gets away from the pitcher but there are aometimes it is intentional but that all depends on what's going on in the game
Not a head-shot but took a screaming line-drive to my thigh when I was pitching and ended up having to go to the doctor from how swollen and bruised my leg was
I was hit in the face while I was batting. Luckily it deflected off the brim of my helmet and it only hit the side of my face. I only had a black eye for like 5 days and then I was back to full health. I even played in another game 2 days later.
how about some quotes from the great game of baseball. I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players' equipment When I played baseball I got death threats all the time--from my mother I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed Umpiring is best described as the profession of standing between two seven-year olds with one ice cream cone Throwing people out of a game is like learning to ride a bicycle--once you get the hang of it, it can be a lot of fun. This ain't a football game, we do this every day On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.' I gave (pitcher) Mike Cuellar more chances than I gave my first wife. If you know how to cheat, start now
I played baseball and I was a pitcher, I've hit people lots of places. When I started playing at 8 years old, I had a strong arm but was wild. I think I set a record, I hit 16 kids in the 8 games I pitched, 3 in 1 inning once. Another kid tried to duck ended eating a ball in his face, and he was wearing glasses. I felt bad about that one, but if he hadn't of ducked he'd be fine. Then a couple of years later I threw an inside fastball, kid ducked and took it right to the head and split his helmet in two, gave him a slight concussion. That was just a practice. I also hit some line drives into the pitcher's gut, that must've hurt like hell. The worst I took was when I was fielding a hot grounder, it took a bad hop and hit me straight in the throat. I was done for the day, if anything is worse then a shot to the nuts, its one to the throat.
Almost all of these in this video are accidents by pitchers. These dudes are major league pitches, meaning they are the very small % of the population that have the ability to throw a ball as hard as humanly possible with accuracy like 99.9999% accuracy but every now and then one gets away. Go out in the back yard, grab a small rock/ball ect, now throw it absolutely as hard as your body will allow on the edge of tearing muscles ligaments ect, now imaging having to do that with accuracy every time. Typically if it's on purpose it's going into the batters kidneys not the head.
98-99% of the time hitting the batter is not intentional! All the ones on this video are accidental! Sometimes the ball gets away from the pitcher!!! Most times the trainer will come out and determine if they need to be taken out of the game!
I once got hit hard when i was in third grade i was right field and the ball hit the ground and bounced off and slammed into my eye and i was lucky that my glasses didn’t shatter but it leave bruised spot I felt flat on my ass and i shit you not i saw stars
In baseball, if someone is taken out of the game for any reason, they can't come back in. Its why you see so many guys try to tough it out and make it to first base or get back on the mound - they won't wanna let their guys down, and usually it necessitates the trainers and medical staff to talk them out of doing so.
I got hit a few times playing High School ball, but always in the back or legs (in the ankle was the most painful) but I was on the other end. I hit a line drive that caught the pitcher right in the ole' twig n berries. I felt really bad, but 2 runs scored, so, not really.
As a catcher I can't say I've ever been hit with a ball. I HAVE however been hit in the head with a bat. Needless to say, I clinched my teeth so hard that I bit 75% of the end of my tongue off as well as had a concussion. So yes, I would imagine that being hit with a baseball at 100+ MPH would hurt a lot.
5:16 the 94mph was the speed of the pitch. You can guarantee that the ball coming off of the bat was travelling faster than that...well into the 100's
Beat me to it lol
Hey Kabir 😊 5:10 when you see that “94 mph” on the scoreboard that’s the speed of the pitch itself - NO TELLING what it is when it comes straight off the bat! 😬
Before they had batting helmets, way back in 1920, a player named Ray Chapman was killed when ball hit him in head at home plate. It was said you heard his skull crack up in the third deck seats. He was from my hometown and played for Cleveland Indians.
2:25 I don't recall ever being hit in the head by a baseball, but I've def. been hit in the ankle, shin, knee, thigh, stomach, arm, fingers. It hurts like H-E-double hockey sticks.
You should do the worst NFL injuries
I did that one a few months back
4:52 is an absolutely wild story. Adam Greenberg....That was his first career at bat. It essentially ended his career. He ended up only making it back to the majors 7 years later.
He had so many nagging neurological isssues that his performance on the field never came back.
In 2012, a Chicago Cubs fan started an online petition to get Greenberg another Major League plate appearance. The campaign succeeded when the Miami Marlins offered Greenberg a one-day contract to play in their October 2, 2012, home game against the New York Mets.The contract was worth $2,623, which will be donated to an organization that researches brain trauma in athletes. Prior to the game, Marlins manager Ozzie Guillén considered making Greenberg the leadoff hitter and starting him in left field, but then decided he would try to have him bat in the middle of the game and was not sure if he would allow him to run the bases.
Greenberg led off the bottom of the sixth inning as a pinch hitter. The Aerosmith song "Dream On" was played through the stadium's public address system as Greenberg walked to home plate and the crowd gave him a standing ovation. He was struck out by Mets knuckleballer and eventual Cy Young Award winner R. A. Dickey on three pitches and was removed from the lineup at the end of the inning.[ Greenberg said after the game, "It was magical. The energy that was in the stadium was something that I have never experienced in my life, and I don't know if I'll ever experience that again."
99% of the time someone is hit above the neck, it’s not intentional. The unwritten rule is pretty much that if you’re gonna hit someone intentionally you hit them around the back or at the very least below the chest.
The "right" way to do it is a first pitch fastball at their butt, so they'll back into it and it hits their hip.
I've had several comebackers while pitching. Two times I remember getting lucky and catching the ball just by reflex, which happens fairly often. The worst I've got hurt was actually catching. I've played games with broken fingers behind the plate. I've had people hit me with the bat accidently. When I was in high school someone fouled a ball off my thigh and I had seam prints tattooed on me for weeks.
Yeah, there's a reason the catcher's all bundled up in gear.
A funny story about catching. Granted this was in like 2nd or 3rd grade during coach pitch. The opposing coach, their pitcher, basically bounced it off the plate and under my gear. I wasn’t wearing a cup at the time and it hurt like crazy. Got a cup for my next game. Never caught again in my life
The sound a baseball makes when it hits bare skin is insane
you should try to react to outfield collisions in baseball
4:15 I don't follow baseball closely anymore. So I don't know the specifics. But I do know that American sports leagues have taken CTE very seriously, so I'd almost guarantee that MLB has some sort of protocol in place any time there is a head injury.
In 2012, one of the pitchers for my A's, Brandon McCarthy was hit in the head by a line drive and almost died and had to have emergency surgery. In 2021, another one of our pitchers, Chris Bassett was hit in the face by a line drive and had to have surgery to repair broken bones in his face! He was our best pitcher so losing him for most of the season also really hurt us!
Baseball and fast pitch softball can be so dangerous! My former friend was hit in the head by a softball once and it crushed her skull inward 😬 Luckily, she recovered well and continued playing the next year
I played Catcher for 12 years, I've had so many Foul Tips hit me but the "Worst" is when the ball is Tipped Down it hits the ground and bounces up usually near the Groin OUCH! Fouls off the Hands hurt too most Catchers put their throwing hand behind their back. If you notice many of the Pitchers get their hands up to try and stop the ball as it's coming back at them it's amazing the reaction time. If a pitcher is going to hit someone Intentionally it's usually on the Rump or Thigh never on the Nugget
I was pitching once in little league, took a line drive off my hand, it hurt BAD, iced it down, stayed in the game. Later on, for the final out, wouldn't you know it, comebacker to the mound, caught it barehanded. Same hand that got hit earlier. Massive bruise, I thought I broke it, so did a few of my teammates who said they could hear the "smack" in the dugout but it checked out.
I also got hit in the "cahones" in a game once. That wasn't fun. 2 innings later back up to bat, same pitcher he hit me right around the belt. Clearly, he was doing this on purpose. I charged the mound but the coaches and the umpire got between us before we started fighting. He later admitted it was on purpose: kicked out of the league.
I got hit in the face once with a line drive while playing 3B. I was playing in and guy swung away. It felt like a concrete fist smashed me in the nose. Broke my nose, bloodied me up.
Most pitches that hit in the head are pitches that got away, breaking balls that didn't break, that kind of stuff. Sometimes in the past pitchers would pitch up and in to back a player off the plate. It was called chin music. If the pitch got away someone could get beaned that way as well. I don't think that happens much anymore. Some pitchers from the nineties backwards were notorious for brushing back batters though.
I took a line drive when I was 13 or 14 that hit me under my right eye, fractured my cheek bone, partial detached retina, collapsed sinus and tear duct, and knocked unconscious for about 20 seconds, honestly it didnt hurt I woke up on my knees. It really only hurt after about a month my eye finally reopened and every blood vessel was popped and light hurt the most.
When I played baseball I got beaned quite a few times batting, but never in the head thankfully.
The wost was the one year I played in a softball league, and I was pitching. I took a come-backer straight to the ribcage. I thought I was dying that day.
I got hit by the biggest kid in the league. We were up by 6 in the semi finals and to save our closer I came in. I got hit in the temple and don’t remember much but I had a concussion and when doing physical activities i still get dizzy 3 years later.
Pitchers might throw "high and tight" to get batters to back up a little, which can intimidate the hitter, but they never mean to hit someone's head.
There are only three types of pitchers who would ever hit a batter in the head or anywhere else:
1)The majority of these are by mistake because the 'ball gets away from them' and it beans a player in the head. It unfortunately happens, and pitchers will usually immediately check on the player if they can, visit in the hospital, no harm, no foul, fans, coaches, all understand it's just an unfortunate part of the game.
2)The second type, are pitchers who hit batters as a form of retaliation. Pitchers do sometimes intentionally throw the ball to hit the batter if say that team did the same in a former game, there was a fight, or sometimes to just get under the skin of a really good batter to rattle them a bit. Pitchers know to hit them in such a way that they know it's intentional, but not meant to grievously injure. This is frowned upon, and if they keep it up, they will get ejected, but a good amount of teams have done this at some point.
3)However, there is the pitcher who takes it too far and intentionally hits a batter in the head. Fans and players know a pitcher did this intentionally either because of past history or warnings issued by the umpire to the pitcher in the current game. It is an official and cardinal rule that you NEVER intentionally bean someone in the head because it could seriously end a career, seriously injure them, and worse case, kill them. And because pitches like this are seen by everyone from coaches, to players, to fans, a pitcher will get booed, will get ejected from the game, it may lead to the entirety of the opposing team fighting the guy, and no one will want to be pitched to by this guy and teams really don't want someone who has a rep of having seriously injured another player.
In Baseball when you leave the game for any reason you can’t return. So when something like this happens (even if it later turns out he’s ok), you’ve lost that guy for this game.
In baseball, they would have to go thru concussion protocol, same as American football.
The "Old" batting Helmets didn't have the Ear Covering now they have it on the Left for Right and Batters and opposite for Lefties. Ive seen that Little Leaguers and some Women's Fast Pitch Softball Batters wear Helmets with Face Protection Similar to Ice Hockey Clear Face Shields
In any sport in USA a head shot the player goes into concussion protocol is a series of tests to see how bad the injury is
In American sports, every injury is treated seriously. All teams have medics at the park to make sure the players are treated immediately in on-site state-of-the-art facilities. So, yeah - if someone gets hit by a ball, head or wherever, someone will rush to their side to assess the injury. If it looks like the player can get up & shake it off, they go back into play (as a, 'consolation', baseball batters who're hit by balls get to automatically go to 1st base), but if they can't, they'll be sent to the on-site 1st aid centre & treated. And, if they injury is really bad, they'll be whisked away to the nearest hospital. BTW, if the batter has to leave the game because of injury, another player will take their place.
Thankfully the worst I've ever experienced is a tennis ball drilled in the eye during a practice. A couple days of seeing lightning bolts (blood) through that eye.
gods, the only thing worse than getting beaned on the face has got to be the pitcher catching it straight off the bat, because then it's got all of the rebound energy from a direct hit on the bat plus the power of a professional batter's swing?
like, no human could throw a baseball out of a park even with ideal conditions (wind supporting them, perfect health and best possible speed and strength, etc), but there have long been batters who could literally hit a baseball out of some stadia
(obviously, it's not possible for every stadium)
I mean, that could straight up kill someone
I've been hit right in the nose by a pitch. Its a blinding, searing pain, and for a moment you're not sure what happened. Luckily nothing was broken.
Me and my friend were playing baseball in the backyard when we was 10 and i threw a under hand pitch and he swung hard and the ball smacked me in the nose. When I tell you i had blood running down from my nose to my chin dripping off it. His granny cleaned me up though. God bless her soul 🙏🕊️
Only been hit like that with a line drive soft ball. And the two don't compare at all. So what I tell you would be way off. 6:29 There is no real way to tell if it is on purpose. Sometimes it is seen as revenge for something that happened before. So much so the umpire will toss a pitcher out of the game. But sometimes the ball really does get away from the pitcher.
The sound is MUCH louder in your head when you are hit.
Head shots are very rarely intentional. Sometimes the ball just gets away from the pitcher. Body shots are a different story.
I played baseball for a long long time and I have been hit by pitches pretty much everywhere on my body. Players are taught that if being hit is unavoidable (usually fastball high and inside) to turn your back to the pitch. So the huge majority of hits are to the back/arm/butt. Now that's easier said than done (especially high level ball with 90+mph pitches are thrown). I've done the exact opposite before though and got hit directly in the cup. I've jumped pitches in the dirt, ducked, you name it. Most to the back don't hurt too bad, bicep is ok, forearm/elbow/hands SUCK. The only time I have ever been hit in the helmet was sliding for a base and the throw hitting me. Been hit in the face plenty of times fielding hard grounders with a bad hop. 25ish years ago my neighbor was coaching a coach pitch game (coaches pitch...age group 6--9) and there player named Seth Manness that drilled a line drive back at the Scott(coach) and hit him right in the face...broken jaw. That player went on to pitch in the MLB for the Cardinals. Still see his dad from time to time.
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I’ll put it on the list!
When it comes to the pitching you have to remember how fast there throwing and the motion of throwing a slight miscue, like throwing to early my like a miniscule amount changes it a lot. I was a pitcher and I hit a few people in my day. I also have been hit in the head as a pitcher and a batter. It hurts. For me the worse pain was later when the adrenaline wore off
I haven't been hit,but my Dad has. He got hit in the calf with a softball while running to home plate. That was about 15 years ago and he still has a knot on the back of his leg.
I'd say rarely does a batter get beaned on purpose and never in the head. All it takes is a slight mistake by the pitcher. A little fatigue in the arm and/or not the best grip on the ball during release. By the time the ball gets to the plate it is off course.
Just getting the ball over the plate is not super easy. Look at opening pitches from celebrities or normal people. Most of the time they will practice for a few weeks just to not embarrass themselves. And it doesn't always work.
It's similar to when people wonder why the police don't shoot someone in the arm or leg, instead of shooting them in the torso. It's not that easy, like you said, anything from the officer having sweaty palms, to a gust of wind, can change the outcome.
That's why it's important to field your position. Most of these pitchers would still take a decent shot. You throw up and in to get them off the plate. The next pitch is probably on the outside corner.
Now, I’ve never been a pitcher, but I can’t imagine they’d hit someone intentionally in the head. Usually they’ll go towards the back if they are throwing at them. Some of them can’t keep their emotions in check and you can tell they feel so bad.
I've been hit in the helmet more than once. It still hurts, but it'd hurt a hell of a lot more if it wasn't there. As for getting hit by a baseball elsewhere. To put it simply it hurts no matter where it hits.
I had my nose broken in jr. high playing catcher without wearing the equipment. I was a tomboy and learned to play baseball before being made to play softball. That sucker hurts. I had two black eyes for over a month.
I was hit in the face with a line drive playing 3rd base when I was like 8 or 9. Hurt like hell and I remember having the stiches from the ball imprinted on my cheek for a couple days after.
There’s been talks in baseball the last couple years about pitchers wearing helmets
I haven't been hit in the face with a pitch like that, but when I was a kid in PE we were playing baseball and I was placed as the catcher and the batter swung a bit crazy and hit my right in the face which resulted in my teeth going through my bottom lip, blood squirting on my horrified teacher, and a trip to the ER 🤣
You need to react to an NHL one. Hockey ones are crazy.
Clint Malarchuk is one he shouldn’t see.
@@nolancain8792 Yeah that one was bad. Worst I’ve ever seen.
I was in Major League as a young teen. Our team thought it would be fun to play a bit after the game. I was being sent to first base, with my back to the plate. I heard the crack of the bat, just to turn around and get cracked right in the forehead by the heaviest hitter on our team. The impact left the stitches from the ball on the egg that it made. It sucked! I went down like a sack of sxxt!
Nowadays 99% of these headshots to batters is unintentional. But in the 1920's, 30's, and 40's there were some pitchers that absolutely were headhunters. Especially if you did something to show up the pitcher: Take a real long trot around the bases after a home run, taunting the pitcher etc. Also if the other teams pitcher was hitting your teams batters you'd possibly have a headhunting war. Baseball was far more brutal then.
Worst I've had is a foul tip in the catcher's mask. It sucks but not nearly as much as these.
Kabir, while I don't know what it feels like to get hit that hard with a baseball, I have fallen and struck my head so hard that I separated my Scalp from my Skull. It was extremely painful.
I wonder why they don’t use some type of shoulder protection for the batting shoulder? Would that help🤷♀️
I've commented before, but head shots are almost never intentional. There's an unwritten rule, head hunting is not allowed, people can get hurt. So if a pitcher wants to hit someone they aim for the ass or the back, it'll hurt like hell but the player probably won't get hurt
I was a catcher i had a ball ticked off got it in my mask and a batter swung and and missed got the bat in the head great position to play you are in every play .
I was never a pitcher, but I was a catcher. And a baseball off the mask feels like you just got punched all over, by hay makers. The mask just spreads the impact across a wider area. And it will loosen teeth, and your jaw fucking hurts!
I got hit on the finger (while gripping the bat) on a cold night by a pitcher that was throwing heat!!! It hurt so bad. I thought all my fingers were broken... I couldn't play for two weeks. Ouch... I cannot imagine getting hit in the face or head. A baseball is very hard and can easily fracture bones if you get hit in the wrong place.
These hits usually aren't intentional, as you surrender a base when you hit somebody...
I'm.sure the pitchers are not hitting the batters intentionally. A bad hit can do permanent damage. As for the balls hitting the pitcher, I once hit a ball that caught the pitcher right in the chest. He was still on his feet but too stunned to do anything as I ran to 1st base.
I got hit in the face with a baseball when I was 6. I wasn't even playing two of my older brothers were. The ball hit me in the face knocked me unconscious. My orbital bone was fractured when I came to paramedics were over me and I just started hysterically crying. I went on to get hit in the face with a hockey puck when I was 10 and then when I was 12 I got by collarbone broken and needed emergency surgery due to it was significantly displaced and had fragments from where it broke that same night in a different game one of my brothers got his jaw shattered with a hockey puck so we both had surgery that night.
for context: the in-game penalty for beaning the batter, intentional or not, is that the batter automatically advances to first base ("walks" in the jargon, which is also what happens when a pitcher throws four "balls" (a pitch that doesn't go through the strike zone, which is directly over home plate between the batter's shoulders and knees)
is it intentional? not unless the pitcher really has a serious grudge and is not afraid to derail his career if the umpires or the league determines it was on purpose
if they (the pitcher and the catcher, who work very closely together) just want to walk the batter, which they might want to do if the batter has a record of hitting a lot of home runs and they don't want to risk that happening, they'll very intentionally and very blatantly signal that they're going to do it; the catcher will stand up and hold his catcher's mitt out to whichever side the batter is not on
of course, once in a great while, a pitcher and catcher will use that to get a strikeout by falsely signalling that they're going to walk the batter and then throwing a fastball right through the strike zone
Getting hit with a baseball will leave thread impressions in your skin. The pain is terrible no matter where you get hit.
I've seen this before. Some pitchers do it intentionally. Request for you to react to MLB umpires injuries.
I really hope no pitchers throw at other guys’ heads on purpose but they defiantly throw inside at guys on purpose at times
94 mph is the speed the ball is thrown, it comes off the bat a lot faster.
Check into the Anthony Molina/Ben Christianson situation in the late 90's. Pitcher was warming up and threw a near 100mph ball at Jay Molina who was in the batters box warming up. Turned out Molina was a chomo but still, it rocked the baseball world, and the controversy that came even years after.
Been hit once in the head by a liner and once in the shin. They feel awful. One to the head I had a concussion from it
Yes...Dizzy
I got really close when I was 16. The ball was crushed right back at my face, but luck/instinct got my glove up in time to catch it. I was shaking from that adrenaline rush afterwards.
I know the feeling. Had the exact thing happen twice and same thing happened. Instinct and reflex took over and snagged it. I've had a ton of other baseball related injuries though so it evens out. Lol
I have. 10 years old. Literally the first game I play, first pitch I face in my entire life, 65-70 mile an hour cheddar straight to my gob. Quirk in our areas league setup. 2 grades were combined, and since my birthday is literally like 3 days before the cutoff, I was always THE youngest kid in my class. Other kid could have been almost 3 years older and be able to actually pitch and reach that kind of speed. Lent back instead of ducking. Pop of white and dropped to a knee. All I could do was look to my first base coach and calmly ask how bad it was because I couldn't feel a thing. Just a fast food cup of blood filled, some cuts and gashes in my lips and gum, no fractures or dental damage thankfully. No big loss, I was a dog shit hitter anyway. I did adopt a Craig Counsel esqe batting stance after that though.
These are crazy scary
You have to check out worst skateboard headslams and fails, its much worse than this.
Due to how the player substitution system works in baseball, players usually do not go off the field to get checked for a head injury. At the higher levels of baseball, once you are removed from a game you are not allowed to return as a substitution except maybe in very, very rare and odd circumstances. The teams' trainers come onto the field during the stoppage and will run a basic battery of tests if there is any doubt about a player continuing on in the game. Then if deemed necessary the player will be removed and replaced, otherwise they continue playing.
I remember the only time my father played catch with me I had nagged him into it. I probably had seen a kid playing catch with his dad on TV and thought it was something we should do. He threw the ball, it clonked me in the head, and that was the end of that!
We need some happy baseball videos. Foolish baseball’s Yadier Molina baseball bits?
It's not always intentional most of the time the ball gets away from the pitcher but there are aometimes it is intentional but that all depends on what's going on in the game
Not a head-shot but took a screaming line-drive to my thigh when I was pitching and ended up having to go to the doctor from how swollen and bruised my leg was
You can tell when it's on purpose because they'll hit them in the hip butt or back.
There are medical people standing by and each team has their own physicians and trainers to tend to the players injuries..
Pretty much
I was hit in the face while I was batting. Luckily it deflected off the brim of my helmet and it only hit the side of my face. I only had a black eye for like 5 days and then I was back to full health. I even played in another game 2 days later.
After reading these other comments i feel really lucky
Kevin pillar with the mets is the worst one in recent memory
how about some quotes from the great game of baseball.
I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players' equipment
When I played baseball I got death threats all the time--from my mother
I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed
Umpiring is best described as the profession of standing between two seven-year olds with one ice cream cone
Throwing people out of a game is like learning to ride a bicycle--once you get the hang of it, it can be a lot of fun.
This ain't a football game, we do this every day
On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
I gave (pitcher) Mike Cuellar more chances than I gave my first wife.
If you know how to cheat, start now
I played baseball and I was a pitcher, I've hit people lots of places. When I started playing at 8 years old, I had a strong arm but was wild. I think I set a record, I hit 16 kids in the 8 games I pitched, 3 in 1 inning once. Another kid tried to duck ended eating a ball in his face, and he was wearing glasses. I felt bad about that one, but if he hadn't of ducked he'd be fine.
Then a couple of years later I threw an inside fastball, kid ducked and took it right to the head and split his helmet in two, gave him a slight concussion. That was just a practice. I also hit some line drives into the pitcher's gut, that must've hurt like hell. The worst I took was when I was fielding a hot grounder, it took a bad hop and hit me straight in the throat. I was done for the day, if anything is worse then a shot to the nuts, its one to the throat.
Almost all of these in this video are accidents by pitchers. These dudes are major league pitches, meaning they are the very small % of the population that have the ability to throw a ball as hard as humanly possible with accuracy like 99.9999% accuracy but every now and then one gets away. Go out in the back yard, grab a small rock/ball ect, now throw it absolutely as hard as your body will allow on the edge of tearing muscles ligaments ect, now imaging having to do that with accuracy every time. Typically if it's on purpose it's going into the batters kidneys not the head.
I got hit in the mouth by a pitch lost 4 teeth & had to had stitches on my lip & tongue !
98-99% of the time hitting the batter is not intentional! All the ones on this video are accidental! Sometimes the ball gets away from the pitcher!!! Most times the trainer will come out and determine if they need to be taken out of the game!
have taken many pucks to the face over the years. lost several teeth for my efforts
If it was INTENTIONAL, they'd be out of baseball so fast it would make your head spin. What a DUMB question!
I once got hit hard when i was in third grade i was right field and the ball hit the ground and bounced off and slammed into my eye and i was lucky that my glasses didn’t shatter but it leave bruised spot
I felt flat on my ass and i shit you not i saw stars
The neck.
This was tense. Holding my breath & cringing the whole time.
Not intentional in the head. At least, I hope to hell not. Just lost control.
In baseball, if someone is taken out of the game for any reason, they can't come back in. Its why you see so many guys try to tough it out and make it to first base or get back on the mound - they won't wanna let their guys down, and usually it necessitates the trainers and medical staff to talk them out of doing so.
Oh, that THWAAK! What is it that we humans are compelled to watch this stuff though we argh and ooh?
Baseball once your out of the game your out for the game. Most of the time they are taken off
I got hit a few times playing High School ball, but always in the back or legs (in the ankle was the most painful) but I was on the other end. I hit a line drive that caught the pitcher right in the ole' twig n berries. I felt really bad, but 2 runs scored, so, not really.
YUP TOOK A LINE DRIVE IN THE NUTS THAT LIFTED ME OFF MY FEET
I’ve been hit but not in the head
Bellment isare little protection
I’ve been hit on the chin
As a catcher I can't say I've ever been hit with a ball. I HAVE however been hit in the head with a bat. Needless to say, I clinched my teeth so hard that I bit 75% of the end of my tongue off as well as had a concussion. So yes, I would imagine that being hit with a baseball at 100+ MPH would hurt a lot.
This clip is too edited down. They should stay with the hit longer to learn more about the injury. It is titled WORST INJURIES after all.