British Soccer fan reacts to Baseball - Justin Verlander's Impossible Inning

[@FoolishBaseball]

Hey, this video was just sent to me. Really enjoyed it! I've always wondered what my videos are like from the perspective of someone who didn't grow up with baseball. I really enjoyed your passion for what's happening. This was just my 2nd video in the Baseball Bits format, and I have since made about ~30 more and really upped the production quality. I see that you've watched some of the newer ones since. Thanks for the support! Hopefully they have piqued your curiosity.

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[@toshow237]

Just some context to explain why he was so mad: Giving up only 2 runs in 8 innings pitched is considered to be a great pitching performance. However, Verlanders team only scored 1 run. In baseball a pitcher’s individual wins are considered an important statistic and measure of a pitcher’s skill. In order for a pitcher to get a “win” they must pitch at least 5 full innings, leave the game with their team winning, and they’re team must keep the lead and win the game. Verlander is pissed because even though he has had an amazing performance individually, his team was hitting poorly and there was no way he could get a win. (He knew it was his last inning, because 105 pitches is a lot in baseball and even the best pitchers rarely ever pitch more than 110 pitches nowadays).

[@GAC_55]

Pitcher wins are the least important stat in baseball. No one is measuring a pitchers skill based on how many wins a season they had. Jacob deGrom won 11 games last year compared to Eduardo Rodriguez’s 19. Is Rodriguez a better pitcher? No.

[@toshow237]

Oh yeah I completely agree that a pitcher’s wins are not a direct measure of skill in any way at all. Its just something that people look at to see how a pitcher is helping their team succeed, and something that matters to a pitcher. I was just explaining the terminology of “getting the win” for someone who may not understand.

[@GAC_55]

Toshow 10 Ahh yeah I was basing it off your third sentence in the original comment. Yeah I would agree it’s an important stat to most pitchers.

[@headlibrarian1996]

@@GAC_55 For an extreme example, Nolan Ryan's 8-16 season when the led the major leagues in ERA and strikeouts. He just played for an amazingly bad team.

[@dustyb58]

Verlander was also famous for not getting run support. There were a lot of games like this where he'd make a mistake or two, give up like one home run and a double in 7 innings, and the Tigers would fail to score.

[@juliantorres3239]

Verlander isnt known for his spin hes known for being one of the best pitchers in baseball and as an mvp in 2011 I think

[@blackmanwhitesuit]

He's known for throwing heat like Strats or Scherzer, but yeah he's known for being one of the best pitchers in baseball.

[@sean533]

I mean he is known for his spin but yeah people care about him being insane more

[@reintaler6355]

Known for his gorgeous record in the World Series too.

[@ErickIsNotAmazing]

Sean are you talking about Verlander or scherzer. I don’t think Verlander is known for being insane

[@juliantorres3239]

@@ErickIsNotAmazing watchu mean hes a pitcher that won the MVP not the cy young but the mvp and you're saying that hes not insane

[@susanmaggiora4800]

You also get pitchers who throw balls with no spin, called a knuckleball, which causes the ball to do all kinds of weird things.

[@hifijohn]

Invented by a whites sox pitcher ,his nickname was knuckles, ergo, the knuckleball.In soccer if you kick the ball with no spin they also call it a knuckleball.

[@alexl9799]

Except knuckleballers are super rare. Kind of a shame, they're real fun to watch.

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Still works for SB Nation. The Saddest At Bat Ever is also incredible

[@cheechorino3710]

Watch Madison Bumgarner epic World Series finish by sb nation it’s the clutchest pitcher in his most clutch playoff performance ever

[@brandonday2494]

Justin in his 20's and early 30's was one of the hardest throwers ever, and incredibly durable. I think he missed one game from 2006 to August 2014, which is lunacy in this day and age. Especially for probably the second most consistently hard-throwing pitcher of all-time after Nolan Ryan. After an injury plagued season and a half in 2014 and the first half of 2015, he's gone right back to never missing a start, though he tops out more like 97-98 (156-158 km/hr) miles per hour nowadays, rather than 101-102, which he hit regularly from 2006-2012. We weren't measuring spin rate back then, but everyone knew the ride (resistance to gravity due to backspin) on Verlander's fastball, as well as his ability to topspin the curveball, was incredible. Still is, at 37 years old. Was just named the best pitcher in the American League in 2019.

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I thought you would like that one. JV had been the man since he came into the league. Special talent and good guy! Make me giggle every time I see it.

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You should totally react to Foolish Baseball videos more! He does a really good job on all of his videos. Besides this one, my personal favorite is his video on Tim Locastro (I had a different one listed but I forgot about this one)

[@tedwitus]

love baseball, jonesing for whatever form of a 2020 season they can salvage, and love sharing this video w Lavish Luka #goTigers

[@xedralya]

Longtime Detroit baseball fan - I watched this one happen live and never forgot it. Lemme C&P what I wrote on the original video when it was made: Oh, I definitely remember this inning. It was always memorable when JV started throwing 102. He did it during his no-hitter against the Brewers, too - in the ninth inning. One thing you probably missed (and understandably so) is that it wasn't just the loss/no-decision factoring into JV's anger going into this inning. The Indians had his number like no other team for the longest time in his career. This appearance was his first against the Indians after winning both the Cy Young and MVP awards in 2011, which was a major step up for him in terms of personal performance. To be facing down losing to the Indians AGAIN after achieving the arguable pinnacle of a starting pitcher's career...yeah, I'd be pretty pissed off too.

[@Cashcrop54]

Great video. I am shocked that all of my friends who are baseball fans never heard of this. Loved your comments.

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[@Mac-gp6mh]

Verlander is known for his greatness and incredible movement on his pitches

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[@jyu467]

Verlander is a future HoF with two Cy Young awards (award for best pitcher), 1 MVP, and pitched 3 no-hitters (a no-hitter is when you don't give up a single hit).

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[@mandymg98]

I was happy you did a reaction to JV. He is my favorite pitcher.

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You should react to Emplemon’s video, There Will Never Ever be Another Driver Like Dale Earnhardt. It’s gives some great history of NASCAR and one of its biggest legends

[@garyr8739]

I see people mention checking other pitchers No Hitters (games where no one got an official hit off the pitcher). This video also mentioned Nolan Ryan. The reason he as mentioned is he has the most career strikeouts, 5,417. He has 7 No Hitters in his career. He also had 12 one (1) hit games and 24 games where he carried a no hitter into the 7th inning. The next best No Hit record is 4 by Sandy Koufax. Justin Verlander has 3 - not bad though and currently only has 3,012 strikeouts. The next best career strikeouts is Randy Johnson with 4,875, 2 No Hitters, and carried 11 games with no hits into the 7th innings. Nolan Ryan is considered the greatest strikeout, and fastball, pitcher of all time, and his record shows it. Unoffically Nolan Ryan is clocked at about 108 mph due to the differences in when the radar guns take the measurements now compared to when they did when he was pitching. Other analyst say it could have been up to 110 on some of his pitches. They did not measure spin rates back then.

[@jackhalley5543]

The team that Verlander played for (2012 Tigers) had an insane pitching staff... imo one of the best of all-time. Verlander, Scherzer, Porcello, Anibal Sanchez, Doug Fister, rookie Drew Smyly, with a BP of Joaquin Benoit, Octavio Dotel and Jose Valverde? Disgusting. The crazy part is that besides Verlander (of course) no one really had eye-popping numbers, they were all just really solid and consistent

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Pitching is like therapy for me if I have a bad day throwing off the mound makes me feel better

[@Anubis78250]

I remember this game. Fans were pretty pissed off about it as well. Verlander was so good that you would tend to automatically assume any game he pitched in a series would be a win. Not in a 'taken for granted' sort of way, but in an 'I can't miss this game' manner. If the team was in a slump you knew it would only last until Verlander's next start. With the batting line up we had, there was simply no excuse for loosing these games.

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For a great story and another world-class pitcher do SB Nation's "Madison Bumgarner's Epic World Series Finish" deep rewind

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[@cheechorino3710]

Verlander is one of the best pitchers of this era too bad he plays for the cheaters in the astros

[@joygutierrez3895]

Still talking shit even tho we didnt and it was a ruomer a lonb as time ago let me geuss LA fan

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@@joygutierrez3895 you was literally caught with cameras and garbage cans stop being in denial and im a blue jays fan thank you

[@poolplayergus]

I'm a Tigers fan, and I watched this live on TV. That Tigers team should have won a World Series.

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All of Foolish baseballs videos are just as good! he goes into the stats and explains them really well !

[@GreenJeepAdventures]

Pitchers in baseball are akin to having powerful cards in Magic the Gathering. You have a handful pitchers that you plan for each game of the week and rotate through them, picking the ones who can best dominate the other team. My San Francisco Giants won the World Series against them that year, but I never knew how formidable Verlander was until now.

[@JMACishere]

This is also the 8th inning, most starters don’t make it to the 8th inning and if they do they are usually fatigued

[@lonewolfx499]

Let me throw out some stats for JV: 8x All-Star, an MVP, a 2x Cy Young Award winner, 3,000 strikeout club, rookie of the year, pitching Triple Crown (leading the league in wins, strikeouts, and earned run average/ERA), and three no-hitters. He's 37 years old and he's still pitching terrifically.

[@hugabug008]

I just found your channel and have been binging all of your baseball vids. If you want to learn more about the type of games pitchers can strive to throw I just watched the vid "PERFECT GAMES, NO-HITTERS, and a MADDUX - Baseball Basics" and thought she explains it well.

[@williamjordan5554]

This is the 1st time I have heard of spin rate, and I've watched baseball since 1971.

[@sean533]

Hey Luka, I would highly recommend “The $750 million teens” it’s a video by Dawson Wright and it’s super good I think you would enjoy it. It’s about an 18u USA baseball team that had future stars on it and beat the odds to win the tournament!

[@bensteinberg2154]

Baseball is a game brimming with statistics and numbers, and Jon Bois/SB Nation and Foolish Baseball are great at presenting the weirdest, most shocking ones

[@williamcrothers1060]

verlander just had this ability to get great late-game velocity, it's as if he was taking it easy earlier in the game to establish placement/control and still had the gas in the tank to step it up near the ends of games

[@joetheastrosfan3460]

Greatest pitcher of the 2010s

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Verlander is a badass. As a giants fan he made me very nervous in the post season.

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Do more baseball bits best baseball channel on the platform

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Jake Arrieta unbelievable second half of the 2016 season. Maybe most dominant or top 3 all time for a span of that time.

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Lavish we need the reaction to sb nation rewind of Aaron Boone walkoff alcs game 7

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As a Yankees fan, I second this. Boone's brief stint on the team was only touched upon in the A-Rod/Jeter video that he reacted to and completely ignores his iconic walk-off. Also the fact that he would get the manager job for that same team fifteen years later.

[@gimpleg9913]

Verlanders spin rate went up much higher when he joined the Astros, leading several people to think that the Astros, as a team, encourage the use of illegal foreign substances on the ball to improve grip and increase spin rate. Verlander was incredible before joining the Astros, but his spin rate is even more incredible now.

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Javy baez amazing plays. You will love baez. As well as mike trout after that.

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React to Clayton Kershaw’s no-hitter. Greatest pitcher of this generation.

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Definitely watch more Foolish Baseball Luka! Sadman Baseball is also really great, he makes kind of similar style of videos, lots of production value and really fun to watch.

[@kodiak138]

Iv'e said it before and I will say it again, the baseball videos are the best

[@NolmDirtyDan]

Please can you do a reaction to a baseball game on youtube? You need to actually watch a game live to understand the game much more

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Dang I forgot how different Foolish baseballs videos were back then good, and now even better

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Damn. Face cam upgrade is on point 👍

[@williamcrothers1060]

gotta remember that raising a spin rate by RPM is only achieving a couple extra spins on the ball over the course of a 2-second pitch, still impressive though to get that much more manipulation on the ball

[@Greenballcomments]

You need to react to the 2017 Astros cheating controversy. It's definitely the biggest news in baseball right now and one of the biggest scandals in sports history.

[@jenfine]

Well poor JV just had Tommy John surgery last week so he’ll be out until 2022 when he’ll be 39. Hope he comes back, but if he doesn’t, he’s still a guaranteed first ballot hall of famer.

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Jon Bois has several good story base sports videos

[@noahlange6387]

A starter throwing triple digits is insane

[@FizzyCape]

Noah Lange it’s pretty common now, but verlander was doing it over 100 pitches in which is the real crazy part

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Baseball bits is an awesome channel

[@unholypepe]

that's Verlander for ya, he is the G.O.A.T

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Glad you've finally discovered foolish baseball. There's some good stuff on there

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Love your baseball reacts

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Gotta love JV!!! React to Astros Dodgers game 5 of the World Series

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Yes react to more Foolish Baseball (Baseball Bits)

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You should definetly react to Lavish Luka's video about Tim Locastro. He's a very odd and unique player that you would enjoy watching. He represents everything good about Baseball players

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Thanks, my suggestion

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React to iMG - Breaking the Curse: The Story of the 2004 Boston Red Sox by Isaiah King . it's all about the boston red sox FINALLY winning the world series for the first time since 1918. but doing so they had to go through their rival the New York Yankees.

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Yes please do more videos from Foolish Baseball. Sadman Baseball is another channel with storytelling and stats like this.

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Stark raving sports is a good channel to watch for that type of stuff

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wow, great video luka, Ive never seen that one before

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you should react to a video about baseball positions

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Can you react to the Cleveland Indians 22 game win streak? The Indians broke the record for longest win. streak like 3 years ago.

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Stark Raving Sports and Sadman Baseball are also both really good.

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Jomboy is the best baseball you tuber and definitely the funniest on KZbin.

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The video up next was the second of a 6 part series on the history of the seattle mariners. You should react to it its really cool to watch (watch part 1 first)

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Do the SB Nation deep rewind video of Aaron Boone's walk off game 7 home run

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React to mlb loudest booing or the chase utley slide vs Mets

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Yes do more baseball reactions please

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React to 10 greatest games of the 21st century playlist. React to each game plz from 10 to 1. You could make a separate video for every game. Plz react plz

[@kleshreen]

Verlander's kind of known for being backwards in how he operates. Most pitchers lose velocity as the game goes on. They might throw 96 mph in the first inning, but be throwing 91-92 in the seventh inning. Verlander for almost his whole career would start the game by throwing 95 mph, and then get to the seventh and eighth inning and be throwing 99-100 mph.

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Do Baseball Bits on Clayton Kershaw

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React to: 30 years in the making, the playoffs story of the 2015 royals

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Big fan !

[@alexl9799]

Nobody is really known for their "spin rates" cause that number is more of an analytical tool than a traditional statistic. Unless you're a stat guru, nobody would ever say, "Hey man, did you watch Verlander pitching yesterday? His RPM was at 2700+ in the 8th inning!" If you know baseball, you can tell Verlander and other great pitchers are great just by watching them but nobody would use spin rate as their reasoning for it. Instead, we would say something like Verlander is most well-known for the speed on his fastball, his ability to maintain that speed late in games (as you saw), and his nasty curveball (you also saw that here too). You can tell when a certain pitcher's pitches are really good, spin rate is just good way of being able to measure that.

[@BenMan8881]

You should react to what is the craziest night in Baseball: Game 162 of September 28, 2011.

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Stark raving sports is a good baseball channel to watch

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Hey Lavish big fan I have a idea? You should react to a certain players highlights or best moments if I would pick a first player I would pick Ryan Howard a amazing player that’s career was ruined by injuries

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Idk if you saw it but Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan, and Kevin Garnett got inducted into the Hall of. Fame the other day