Mark Buehrle Was Baseball's Speedrunner | Baseball Bits

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Who links video game speedrunners and baseball players? Mark Buehrle. Mark Buehrle's starts could be best described as a speedrun through the very game of baseball itself. He routinely performed a baseball speedrun. Some Buehrle complete game performances were among the shortest baseball game ever. Well, at least MLB shortest games of the modern era. Sub 2 baby!
In this episode of Baseball Bits, a Foolish Baseball production, I will look at the career of Mark Buehrle through some Buehrle White Sox and Buehrle Blue Jays starts. In particularly, I'll be breaking down the times of the Mark Buehrle perfect game, as well as Mark Buehrle's 99 minute baseball game, a historic achievement done in a White Sox Mariners 2005 game. Perhaps the most entertaining, however, would have to be the Buehrle vs Sale matchup from 2015.
We'll also look at complaints about slow-paced pitchers. "Pedro Baez slow" "David Price slow" We've all heard complaints. MLB pace of play is a huge topic of discussion right now, and I'm starting to think an MLB pitch clock might be the solution. Hopefully you'll enjoy this one!
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[@shifty4935]

Can you do a video without bashing my Stros’? Jesus it was 3 years ago

[@max_fischer]

@@shifty4935 LOL that's cute, he thinks they stopped cheating after winning in 2017.

[@Matts_Smirkingrevenge]

In. You got class kid.

[@cerealissoup84]

Can you ask Summoning Salt what his favorite spice is?

[@shifty4935]

It’s just as old an unoriginal as trump jokes. We get it

[@SummoningSalt]

Don’t mind me, just doing research for my next world record progression video

[@FoolishBaseball]

I would start here blogs.fangraphs.com/effectively-wild-episode-1453-time-is-on-our-side/

[@a1gamer561]

Oh damn it’s the actual Summoning Salt. Hey 👋

[@UncopyrightTNT]

Foolish be summoning summoning salt

[@lucastrouble6842]

didn’t expect this crossover

[@psuley1977]

Time to collaborate for some blindfolded Nolan Ryan: Punch Out

[@KM-ed9gk]

Teammates: congrats mark you pitched a perfect game! Mark: yeah but did you see those gold splits?

[@FoolishBaseball]

He goes home and immediately backs up the VOD

[@epicdizzle.]

MLB Regular Season Game Speedrun (Perfect%) - 2;03

[@robertsagest9552]

@YouFoundSharpe Official Starters are 100% and relievers are any%

[@burningphoneix]

According to AJ Pierzinski (sp?) Mark actually spent the time in the dugout teasing AJ because he wasn't catching the perfect game.

[@rayzr1120]

Girlfriend: “Baby come over” Buehrle: “I can’t I have to pitch” GF: “My parents aren’t home” Buehrle:

[@tnyamaneko6093]

I would like to see his wife, as he's been doing that for years.

[@personsrule9857]

underrated

[@IkEisawesome7]

Amazing comment

[@salisburythefox8324]

1:39 of the game later Buehrle: I'm here now

[@imbored2460]

LMFAO

[@MLB]

You've done it again!

[@FoolishBaseball]

thanks baseball

[@yummytube69]

When you made such a comprehensively good baseball video, that the baseball themselves thanking you

[@Jackson-mi3dr]

That’s cool

[@travisdinham6084]

@@FoolishBaseball the official league crediting you is huge

[@notaturtle561]

This is their hint to pitchers to speed things up

[@falaquisto]

Oh, finally we got a new Summoning Salt video...

[@FoolishBaseball]

All that's missing is the HOME soundtrack

[@donutboi6187]

falasquito I hope Mark could pitch a complete game blindfolded

[@man4437]

I didn't even realize it, but I was so confused that they hadn't made any new videos recently

[@mw4501]

summoningsalt is absolute trash, please don't insult foolish baseball by comparing them

[@donutboi6187]

M W That’s an opinion, not a fact, and about 700k people disagree with you

[@LiquorWithJazz]

"We call that a Maddux." I was living in Korea in 2015 and needed a repairman to come fix my door. We were speaking in Korean and he asked me where I was from. When I said Atlanta he got REALLY excited and said, "Greg Maddux!"

[@squidsseeghosts4533]

Lol

[@rodinhoo]

that's amazing

[@elmowilcox]

Name makes this 90’s era Astros fan shiver to this day. I HATE the Braves sooo much 😆 no for real though recognize greatness…I was never mad to watch the Three Horseman of the Astrocalypse.

[@deadlyseed]

Wow he's literally doing AI manipulation by staying on the mound, forcing players to abridge their warm-up animations. I'll try that next time I do a casual baseball playthrough

[@gwagon611]

That’s what ur supposed to do

[@owenmurphy924]

This is such an underrated comment

[@juiceboxmania1558]

I remember watching Buehrle’s next start after his perfect game and I think he pitched like 6 or 7 more perfect innings before finally giving up a hit. Absolutely insane

[@nateyoung3551]

Nolan Juusola 42 straight batters he retired

[@Saxist007]

He got a standing ovation, too. In Minnesota.

[@AEMoreira81]

45 batters retired in a row...to set what was then an all-time record. (It's still an American League record.)

[@nateyoung3551]

Adam Moreira thank you, I was just trying to go off memory

[@eternalreign2313]

@@AEMoreira81 Correct, he retired the final batter his start before the perfect game, then 27 in the perfect game, then the first 17 against the Twins, finally walking a guy with 2 outs in the bottom of the 6th. Yusmeiro Petit broke that record in 2014 when he got 46 in a row, spread out over 8 games, mostly as a relief pitcher.

[@Trystaticus]

FB: explains what speedrunning is to his audience Me: yeah that may not be necessary

[@FoolishBaseball]

Ha!

[@vumasster]

I’m gonna do a damage boost to clip through the sponsored section and warp to outside the credits

[@ernestolombardo5811]

"Normal slow" pitchers may be a new market deficiency - hitters are so used to everybody taking their own sweet time, that speed-running pitchers theoretically could keep everybody off-balance.

[@blessd24]

Amen. Bizarre world we live in when everything is so easy to not die that this is a thing.

[@peterduckett9774]

My favorite stat about my favorite pitcher: Ninety pitchers in MLB history have thrown a nine-inning complete game while facing the minimum 27 batters. Walter Johnson did it twice. Cy Young did it twice. Sandy Koufax did it twice. Mark Buehrle did it three times.

[@derekbottoni2506]

Your favorite stat is now my favorite fun fact about Mark Buehrle, some guy I only knew as "that guy that pitched a perfect game one time."

[@jakefromstatefarm6969]

Dont forget about Frank hiller now. Buehrle is an enigma, hes got like 8 different cool unique things about him, which is weird because hes just a normal dude

[@jakefromstatefarm6969]

@@samael4550 even better than that, he walked sammy sosa and picked him off of first. Although what 2007 sammy sosa was doing with such a large lead off, I have no idea

[@rnhtube]

Mark Buehrle has three perfect games?

[@jakefromstatefarm6969]

@@rnhtube he has 3 games where he got every single player that he faced out. In one, they all got out before they reached base (his one perfect game). In the other 2, players reached base but all were out on the base baths via a pickoff, caught stealing, or being caught in a double play

[@FuzzyFromYT]

*sits down with breakfast* I am ready

[@FoolishBaseball]

The speedrunner's breakfast is instant oatmeal.

[@sunny_silly]

@@FoolishBaseball good joke

[@biopanda4226]

Hi fuzzy can you react to the all time hit leader from every team

[@cerealissoup84]

Fuzzy how are you going to stop your arch rival Fluffy?

[@Warum.2439]

Actually did the same lol

[@tomatoanus]

foolish baseball making a speedrun video? my dream has become a reality.

[@santiagog]

Hey! it's tomatoangus cousin, how u doing

[@Logjambam]

Good luck getting the baseball sex% record but I think bartolo has that on lock

[@gray9486]

Imagine Buehrle vs. Greg Maddux’s 76 pitch complete game! That game would be like an hour long.

[@FoolishBaseball]

I think Maddux and Buehrle did face off at one point, might be wrong.

[@jamesgurley2075]

@@FoolishBaseball 2 hours 7 minutes. Ended 6-1 May 19th 2006. Hard to search because the next day is the barrett-pierzynski crosstown brawl.

[@shoukatsukai]

They faced each other in a 2006 Windy City Classic. Final Time: 2 hours 7 minutes www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHA/CHA200605190.shtml

[@salisburythefox8324]

@@jamesgurley2075 XD

[@salisburythefox8324]

@@shoukatsukai DAMN IT! Mission failed, we'll get them next time

[@Pensfan5919]

I remember this man. My dad used to do stats with MLB extra innings, and got real excited when Buehrle was the pitcher.

[@FoolishBaseball]

Haha. The work day just flies by with Buehrle on the mound!

[@bigroger99]

"Call your sons! Call your daughters! Call your friends! Call your neighbors! Mark Buehrle has a perfect game going into the ninth!" -Hawk Harrelson

[@JasonEmerson711]

DeWayne Wise saved the day.

[@rylan3300]

“oh no gibby’s gonna challenge” ah yes the life of a blue jay fan

[@tonybleau6219]

I actually miss Gibby now that we have Montoyo the worst micro manager in baseball. He literally lost us our postseason birth by 1 fucking game with so many useless or flat out stupid decisions.

[@nyrangers731]

@@tonybleau6219 Gibby was the best

[@SmoothCriminal12]

@@tonybleau6219 and the team immediately got better the second he was sacked this season.

[@iobjection]

Terrible speedgame. The cost of entry is WAY too high for the average gamer and resets can take up to 5 days.

[@FoolishBaseball]

This is a very good point.

[@justinharris2272]

You also just saw the sheer amount of RNG, no categories are very competitive outside of Buehrle's runs either.

[@tankinator451]

Not to mention how heavily it relies on RNG

[@johnanthony9923]

MLB: We want to speed up the games. Also MLB: We need to have 4 hours of commercials every time a pitcher walks on the field...despite already warming up BEFORE even getting on the field....because we want more money. Fuck Manfred.

[@FoolishBaseball]

Definitely some truth to this, although I will say that there were less commercials in the game from 2009 than from the games in 2015. That stood out to me a bit.

[@cltmck]

MLB isn't serious about speeding up play until they implement a pitch clock. Everything else is just glorified lip service that, at least in the case of the three batter minimum rule, damages the game. ...almost forgot, fuck Manfred

[@FoolishBaseball]

@@cltmck Manfred does want to the implement a pitch clock though. I think it's inevitable.

[@mrmacross]

It's fair to let relievers get their 8 pitches in to get accustomed to the mound. Just don't let pitchers get away with 30 seconds between pitches.

[@BosSoxFan15]

@@mrmacross Especially cause that mound has been used and stepped on an entire game which generally leads to holes around the rubber and where the front foot lands. I still think its important for pitchers to be allowed those pitches to find the comfortable footing, or it could lead to serious injuries.

[@robscallon]

This was fantastic

[@FoolishBaseball]

thank you!!

[@nasiannoodles]

BOOM! Tetris for Rob!

[@adrianramirez7122]

ROB SCALLON??!??

[@foiledthrice]

@@nasiannoodles smh my head

[@slidenaway]

@@foiledthrice ??? HELLO lmao

[@wesleyy2502]

9:31 that Jose Reyes error was one of the reasons the Jays traded for Tulo.

[@thecaynuck4694]

@MANCHESTER UNITED Guys like you is why soccer is just not respected in North America. God sports like baseball and hockey are harder to prepare for, soccer's just easy to play. As seen in these videos, baseball and hockey, American football and b-ball all require more actual talent and strategy/intelligence than retarded soccer players flopping like fishes trying to get penalties in 0-0 draws.

[@thecaynuck4694]

@MANCHESTER UNITED You're a confirmed idiot. Baseball does have strategy. Pitchers need to pitch around batters, work out counts, batters need to swing at good pitches, small ball wins games. And you need to search more, because there are some crazy crowds with an electric atmosphere. Search up Jose Bautista bat flip or any World Series. And baseball players are not out of shape. Hockey's my favorite sport and I'm Canadian, not American. Canadians are not retards, whether you like it or not. Hockey is objectively better. So is any American sport. Again, popularity does not dictate whether a sport is good or not. The people who watch soccer are often idiotic and waste their time. Soccer's so boring that the fans have to make up stupid chants in order to keep entertained while retards pussies flop and be unsportsmanlike. Running around is nothing impressive. The fact you have the audacity to come here shows how desperate you guys are to force people to like your shit sport. Thankfully, Westerners are smarter than Europeans, Africans, South Americans and whoever else you force to watch your shit sport. The FIFA also has a history of corruption.

[@thecaynuck4694]

@MANCHESTER UNITED If you really think NFL commercials are that common, you haven't watched it. The Superbowl is one of the most popular and exciting moments. The best, most aware and strategic QB's and teams face off. In the World cup, you just have Messi and Ronaldo flopping around, getting red cards, botching easy goal shots, and being total dicks off the field, raping their own girlfriends.

[@johncunningham6485]

MANCHESTER UNITED why the fuck did you mention soccer? And in America, nobody gives a shit except in Atlanta

[@richitorres1able]

@MAN UTD 1 superbowl commercial has more excitement then 100 years of soccer

[@xfreeworld4563]

This should be called “The World Record Speedrun for 8 Bit Baseball”

[@FoolishBaseball]

I actually had a lot of trouble figuring out what to title this. Your suggestion is as a good as mine.

[@xfreeworld4563]

Foolish Baseball As long as you named it in a way that would please the almighty summoning salt. Great video man love your content, you got me into baseball 👍🏻

[@bronxbomber8814]

"where I'm from, we call that a Maddux" 😂

[@FoolishBaseball]

The Maddux is actually a somewhat legit stat

[@iancrane5705]

Sports Illustrated came up with the idea of a "Pedro". Iirc it was a start with 10Ks and no walks

[@carteljameson8395]

@@FoolishBaseball Not somewhat. It IS a legit stat. It should be everyone's favorite stat tbh. We should all be on lookout for them every season.

[@bordersonbudgets]

Is a Maddux a CG sub-100 or sub-90 pitches?

[@carteljameson8395]

@@bordersonbudgets Complete game shutout sub 100 pitches.

[@SmokeWater18]

When I worked at the Rogers Centre in 2015, I was always looked forward to Buehrle taking the mound knowing I would have a short shift that day lol. Great video!

[@duggiek1352]

9:23 Ugghh, cutscenes you can't skip. The bane of all speedrunners.

[@aqgpandemic5406]

Yes one of my favorite pitchers of all time!! Underrated as hell as well.

[@FoolishBaseball]

He really was terrific.

[@ericsoko]

@@FoolishBaseball I thought your Buehrle-focused video might be another Larry Walker-esque push for his HOF candidacy. He probably falls into the hall of very good but really had a fascinating, accomplished career.

[@txisbest2010]

1 year later: "So, You Didn't Vote for Mark Buehrle"

[@phaecneom1984]

Buehler

[@phaecneom1984]

Walker

[@Arden2000]

Dewayne Wise: *makes catch* Mark Buehrle: someone clip that

[@stevenjeon8600]

"He runs like Rougned Odor is after him" 😂

[@TheJayofthejungle]

It used to enrage me in fantasy baseball leagues when i would have Buehrle and he would pitch a gem over 8 and change with only a couple strike outs, only to be outscored by a guy that gave up like 5 runs over 5 1/3 but had like 7 Ks. He was definitely someone I pointed too when discussing changes in pitcher scoring. The guy was just one of the most consistently-solid pitchers in the history of the game. Super underrated in my opinion.

[@tommacdonaldstan6998]

“Level two: summoning” “Level three: salt” I see what you did there

[@brianbethea3069]

The titles in order say "Watch Summoning Salt after this."

[@michael_v2624]

the dude has the world record for the mike tyson fight and he doesn't brag about it.

[@sebastianbaquero7227]

I was wondering if the level two title "Summoning" was a reference to the man, the myth, the legend. And indeed, the level three title confirmed my suspect. Amazing. PS.: I will be watching Salt's videos after this, as you recommended.

[@uristramer7818]

“Here comes Gibby” is probably the best way to sum up every jays game in the past ten years

[@martytu20]

You know shits going down when Gibby gets out of his lean position.

[@ultradevo]

Here's a funny story that relates to both video games and baseball speedruns: In 2002, the Hanshin Tigers pitcher Igawa Kei (Yankees 07-08) had a start scheduled on May 16th, but that happened to also be the same day that Final Fantasy XI released in Japan. He tossed a shutout game with insane tempo, only allowing 2 hits and zero walks just so he could go home and play the new game as soon as possible.

[@demcanes9488]

"...what a play by Wise...MERCY!!!" Mercy was the call!

[@A38]

"In a world where e-sports and traditional sports are converging..." Loved that line! You've a very pleasant, mature writing style that I think balances concise sequences of information with poetic analysis. 5:08 - good lord, is there any question about how quickly Bautista ran? He "ran like Rougned Odor was after him." Good shit, friend!

[@ExoticDva]

Ah yes, The new “Mound stand” strat. In which the pitcher stands on the mound to force the batter to step up to the box quicker than usual.

[@BroadswordMedia]

Mark Buehrlie and Chris Sale had a conversation with each other before the game started to try their best to make the game be under 2 hours. Great job!

[@hiimemily]

"He runs like Rougned Odor is after him." *_pfffft_*

[@willtellez8535]

I’m a proud Ranger fan

[@mystery9537]

@@willtellez8535 that's cool. But, I don't think he asked.

[@willtellez8535]

Mystery He who? Mark Buehrle?

[@TheAbele992]

@@willtellez8535 Bautista

[@mrlardtard6552]

Hi Emily

[@GaIeforce]

You may want to add Sandy Alcantara to the list of pitchers you may want to watch. He already has two sub-2hour games on his belt and he's only 27 years old with a lot of baseball left in him.

[@ryansoltner5229]

I am so glad you brought up connection between cheating and pace of play. I can’t tell you how mad it makes me how Rob Manfred has just enabled this so hard and then didn’t punish the team that was doing it the worst.

[@FoolishBaseball]

I definitely see the threat of cheating as contradictory to pace of play efforts.

[@ryansoltner5229]

Foolish Baseball also, great vid!

[@misterct2421]

I remember the only times I saw him on tv was him actively throwing a ball, never doing anything else, lol

[@leedavis1944]

Great video as always! Not many channels produce much watch content for me, but every time one of yours pops into my sub box it's getting watched that very moment. Thank you for all the work you put into these!

[@mobogdan4683]

man I'm just happy we're remembering Buerhle at all, that's my favorite player of all time, he was so fun to watch pitch

[@bradenstewart6270]

Greg Maddox just needs his own video at this point

[@richardstephens7636]

Shotgunned a beer during this video

[@JFranz1981]

THANK YOU!! Huge Sox fan and huge fan of Buehrle's. My brother and I re-watched the perfect game recently, with no commercial breaks it was under 1:40.

[@bkeene5231]

This is my favorite player ever. I’m a die hard Sox fan and have autographs and newspaper cutouts of his perfect game. The fact that you, my favorite KZbinr, did a video on him means so much to me!!! I’ve watched so many times! Keep it up all love!

[@BG14147]

MLB: We need to speed up games Also MLB: No Astros players will be punished for cheating

[@djozenkoski472]

@MANCHESTER UNITED Why is that relevant lmao

[@noahdomingo1162]

@@djozenkoski472 he does this on a bunch of non-futbol vids cuz he wants to gatekeep and make sports less fun to watch for some reason

[@zachmargolick5835]

MANCHESTER UNITED why does this have anything what so ever to have to to do with this? We are watching baseball one side we want to watch baseball, not because we want to watch soccer.

[@paulk6399]

MANCHESTER UNITED Sports is played by men (and women) Soccer is played by college dropouts from the acting program Also, what kind of self respecting football fan calls it soccer 😂😂😂😂

[@josephnajarian2038]

Imagine if Buehrle pitched today with the pitch clock. His games would literally last an hour.

[@chrisn626]

One of my favorites to watch. He use to get the ball back and he was instantly ready to go. What a great guy!

[@jugglelunky]

holy heck, I've been seeing so many speedrunning references in other channels I watch recently! It's like all of my hobbies are connected! This makes me so happy :)

[@josephpolarek8049]

As a White Sox fan...I love this.

[@kmomang]

Loved seeing him in a Jays uniform

[@milesbrown8055]

Gotta love the random Curb reference

[@jupena]

Mark Buehrle is one of my fav lefties of all time! this was (as always) a very interesting video!

[@lpourmirza]

Pitch clock is now in place, wonder if anyone can be a better speed runner than Mark Beuhrle

[@LearnedSophistry]

Apparently sandy Alcantara

[@pinatass]

Mark Buehrle is an absolute legend

[@WaffleLover-my1hi]

Loved this creative video! This is so much better than simply talking about Mark Buehrle's career. I have been kind of getting into speedrunning lately, well at least watching random speedruning videos late in the night. You would be surprised by just how many different games people speedrun.

[@andrewheinisch5991]

Love these vids. Very interesting to watch and learn about these players. Few of them went under my nose during their career and finding out about their quirks or successes is fascinating especially in this video format. Great job!

[@teko1987]

@Summoning Salt brought me here :D

[@minigungamer5583]

Bro was planning for the pitch clock

[@gabrielhernandez5249]

Great video! Buehrle is was so underrated. One of my favorite pitchers ever.

[@evanwall7589]

Great video as always! You have a knack for making me love players I never used to give much credit to! Thanks FB

[@HeadOfBucket]

"Watch Summoning Salt after this" Nice.

[@mr.pickaxe1101]

HeadOfBucket was just about to say that.

[@coldsnap5742]

We already have pace-of-play rules. ENFORCE THEM. Rule 8.04: "When the bases are unoccupied, the pitcher shall deliver the ball to the batter within 12 seconds after he receives the ball. Each time the pitcher delays the game by violating this rule, the umpire shall call “Ball.” The 12-second timing starts when the pitcher is in possession of the ball and the batter is in the box, alert to the pitcher. The timing stops when the pitcher releases the ball. The intent of this rule is to avoid unnecessary delays. The umpire shall insist that the catcher return the ball promptly to the pitcher, and that the pitcher take his position on the rubber promptly. Obvious delay by the pitcher should instantly be penalized by the umpire." Rule 6.02b: "(1) The batter shall take his position in the batter’s box promptly when it is his time at bat. (2) The batter shall not leave his position in the batter’s box after the pitcher comes to Set Position, or starts his windup. PENALTY: If the pitcher pitches, the umpire shall call “Ball” or “Strike,” as the case may be." COMMENT: "The batter leaves the batter’s box at the risk of having a strike delivered and called, unless he requests the umpire to call 'Time.' The batter is not at liberty to step in and out of the batter’s box at will."

[@dsroaddogg]

Yeah good luck with that! Just imagine the reaction if Joe West popped out from behind the plate and called Ball One per slow pacing.

[@coldsnap5742]

@@dsroaddogg Exactly. Throw the ball.

[@Kurruptedwolf]

This is some good fucking food

[@Logjambam]

It's like this video was made for me. This is the exact reason why he is my favorite pitcher I have ever watched. He was just incredible

[@ratzbodell1]

Thank you for making this video! Mark Buehrle is my all time favorite White Sox player, and since they're my favorite team that pretty much makes him my favorite baseball player ever. I was watching both his no-hitter and perfecto live - big shout out to my man Dewayne Wise!

[@evanchiu8217]

Makes me think of chien Ming wangs game when he was in his prime. He used to finish a game in like 90 pitches

[@t-mansports3048]

I’ve never been so entertained watching my team lose

[@YellowSkarmory]

Thanks for the nod to speedrunning, it can feel like a relatively obscure topic but as a speedrunner myself I appreciate the nod to it. :)

[@DoubleKillFilms]

yoooo the summoning salt reference!!! this is my favorite channel and it just got even better

[@drewtron40]

Imagine not having this man in your groupchat 😍🥰

[@FoolishBaseball]

Dixon Machado KBO MVP

[@gigic8447]

@@FoolishBaseball LOTTE GIANTS STAND UP

[@dylanrodriguez8219]

@@gigic8447 NO FLIGHT TEAM STAND UP

[@colin7244]

Ima watch these videos after summoning salt brought you up. This is also similar to baseball doesn’t exist as well

[@PWNSdaily]

I haven't watched a full baseball game in years, but your channel is amazing

[@christopherbrandt27]

You're absolutely sick love the videos. This ones is right up there with your best. Brilliant.

[@deidryt9944]

"...baseball that obeys the laws of gravity" Just sounds like something is wrong with the physics engine... I'm sure some speedrunner will find some way to exploit it someday.

[@FoolishBaseball]

There's always something wonky going on with the Source Engine.

[@CardsTricks42]

I have a possible skip. I see that the inning value is stored in a byte, with the top of the 1st having the value 0, and the bottom of the 128th having the value 255. If you get a close call safe in the top of the 1st, in the 1st batter of the game, challenge that, then do some pause buffering, it will cause it to have an integer underflow and teleport to the bottom of the 128th. There you need some home run RNG and you'd shatter the record.

[@Fazillah]

Always a blast watching your vids.

[@TheTEN24]

Love the curb shoutout haha. Great as always my man

[@RSanchez111]

Sandy Alcantara hit the 1946 average tonight

[@Verlisify]

Loved the concept of this video

[@phaecneom1984]

Ok

[@brennendouglass4899]

My favorite player of all time! I loved his demeanor on the mound. He came at you with pure grit and control and was the ultimate speed runner. He could paint corners with his wide variety of pitches while never really topping 92 on his fastball. Hopefully he will make it to the hof one day. Job well done and great video sir!

[@williamkoscielniak820]

He was quite Maddux like. There's a guy on the north side who is very similar to Buehrle; Kyle Hendricks.

[@j05hthar]

Great video man! Thx for the great baseball content

[@stormcat3648]

Who’s here after the summoning salt video?

[@noha9719]

i broke his most perfect innings record my 1/3 of an inning in Mlb the show 19

[@ericmueser6950]

I just stumbled across this channel in my recommended. The videos are incredibly well researched, commentated, and edited. The only thing I would change might be the music. Damn good videos, keep it up!

[@lucaw2044]

I love the amount of effort you put into your videos!

[@mitchelvalentino1569]

In the early days of the World’s Series, there were games less than an hour.

[@FoolishBaseball]

Pretty crazy to thing about the logistics of that compared to today's game.

[@yourmomlikeswidgets3901]

I think that’s because of the lower strike out rates and more contact pitching.

[@ronaldwayne7092]

@@yourmomlikeswidgets3901 It was due to short days and no floodlights. They had to MOVE.

[@danzplayz4149]

This comment is not sponsored by the athletic Good video Foolish Baseball

[@FoolishBaseball]

Not anymore :(

[@danzplayz4149]

@@FoolishBaseball I speedran that comment with a time of 1 millisecond

[@zacharykniffin5595]

The production quality is looking great man, this video is amazing! 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@FoolishBaseball]

Thank you for the kind words!

[@timrobinson7373]

When I was a kid I went to DH at Comiskey Park in the 70's with Wilbur Wood and Jim Kaat pitching both games were over in less then 4 hours...try that MLB

[@dabbingtoast7743]

I think baseball is just doomed to have long games with minimal action. Hence the steadily declining fan base.

[@FoolishBaseball]

I don't think it's doomed, but I do think it'll survive as a slightly more niche sport rather than a dominant cultural force.

[@dabbingtoast7743]

Foolish Baseball A lot like what hockey is now. Although to be honest I could probably see hockey eventually being more popular than baseball.

[@UsesofBatman]

@@dabbingtoast7743 The inherit problem with hockey is that it's expensive to play organized and get all the gear

[@dabbingtoast7743]

Trev As far as spectating fans and on TV

[@KermitTheGamer21]

It's also much harder to learn how to skate than it is to field a ball and hit.

[@vii6716]

I'm glad the MLB isn't claiming these videos left and right and is instead promoting your channel. Makes me like baseball all the more.

[@brianhalligan9268]

baseball and speedruns two of my favorite things great vid FB

[@FoolishBaseball]

Thanks!

[@henryjacob9605]

I was at the opening day flip between the legs play. It was insane! Love Buerhle and love this vid!

[@VictorRodriguez-ts8ve]

I know I’m nobody but this has easily become my favorite foolish baseball video so far. Not because I’m a Sox fan but just the overall creativeness. 27 out of 10. Great stuff man.

[@Andrewbreeze316]

Bravo. Amazing as always

[@galil_6863]

I've watched 3 of your videos and this is already my favorite channel on KZbin... now of you'll excuse me, I'll watch a fourth one XD

[@eeeyyyeee]

Love your videos foolish. Please keep it up!