MLB Bending the Rules

[@bwotwbianlw]

If we could clone Beltre a bunch of times and put 1 on every mlb team baseball would be the most entertaining sport to watch in the world

[@aaronproctor3623]

I wish I could give more than 1 thumbs up. That is the smartest use of clone technology ever.

[@AtomicBoyscout]

A beltre and a greinke on every team

[@Smingleflorp]

Clone enough for the entire league and call it Major League Beltreball

[@davidgutierrez2521]

also one of the teams needs to be beltre and miggy only

[@TheLastWalenta]

Which would be better - one Beltre on every team, or one team of all Beltre?

[@thestu94]

Beltre was all over this video. Best player for humor and love of the game

[@sidthekidfan01]

Humor and love??? You ment to type dirty ass bulshit player right?

[@thestu94]

@@sidthekidfan01 no I typed what I ment to type now stfu and get off my comment if you ain't got nothing nice to say

[@poddylogo]

@@sidthekidfan01 who hurt you lol

[@Official_Zim]

@@poddylogo of course this niggas name is Logan lmao

[@dominicwilliamson7912]

He has fun for sure

[@iamgeek246]

I love how Beltre is on almost all of these clips, and that’s not even half of the antics he pulled while playing the game. He truly was one of the greats and he had FUN while playing.

[@GatewaveDJ]

Beltre was just always such a blast to watch, man. Pure entertainment, and a class act.

[@SwordHMX]

He was a major bust in Seattle, and the fans liked him anyways!

[@johncho8766]

It was all fun and games with Beltre.... but don't touch his head.

[@TsarCzar9]

@@SwordHMX yes, my favorite from that era

[@llYossarian]

I'm pretty sure "class act" is/was broadcasting code for "respectable" minority players. Do you/anyone reading this ever once remember hearing a white player referred to as a class act?

[@GatewaveDJ]

@@llYossarian well, I'm pretty sure I meant it to describe him as a class act. As in "he isn't a disrespectful douchebag". Seeing as I'm English, and dont really pay any attention to the supposed "Broadcasting Code". Edit: Pretty sure I'd describe Cal Ripken Jr in the same way. In fact, I just did, so there you go. Push the narrative elsewhere bud, I just love Beltre 😂😂😂😂

[@tighecrovetti2844]

We should be asking ourselves why every pro ball player isn't out there having as much fun as Adrian Beltre.

[@SamBoukas]

Money. It starts when parents and everyone else starts getting waaaay too serious about their kid going to the majors and making piles of cash.

[@jmwall24]

That Gant one was ridiculous, that ump shoulda been fired immediately lol.

[@tritchy3]

ong bro. i am literally yelling at my phone

[@eagledetection4451]

Nah that was a legit call. *evil laugh from mn*

[@jmwall24]

@@eagledetection4451 lol

[@jackjon7763]

So that could be a legit call. If the umpire feels gang wouldn’t have stayed on the bag and his momentum had them both come off the bag.

[@jmwall24]

@@jackjon7763 I mean sure that's a thing that can happen. Did it happen here? No. You can clearly see the first baseman lift his leg off the bag. It's a legit horrible call.

[@marcs8395]

did we just find an ump worse than angel Hernandez? that call where the first basement took the guys leg off wow

[@howardbaxter2514]

How about that Beltre ejection? Complete bullshit.

[@wtf-kz8rt]

Basement

[@RevanandMalak]

Idk man Joe West is pretty bad

[@slimyminer3000]

That was Kent Hrbeck he is the funniest guy irl

[@StealthSwith19136]

no, no one can possibly be worse than Hernandez

[@Justin4u4me]

I love how like half of these are just Beltre having fun

[@dtimbs84]

I absolutely love beltre. He's probably the funniest mlb player in the history of the game

[@cmbtvet2286]

Beltre was fun to watch. He made the game a GAME! We need more players like him.

[@handpancakeman]

Seeing players smile and have fun while playing always makes me smile and laugh too. Sports are games, after all, and some people tend to forget that!

[@stuckie3916]

So basically Beltre is the funnest player to watch. I’m down with that🤣

[@TheOrangeRoad]

Beltre is an American Icon, even if he hes born in the DR. What a guy

[@brendan6704]

Its sad when you see umpires get so upset when a guy is having fun playing a sport. I understand cheating but there is a fine line between cheating and messing around.

[@daevydjae]

2:11 To this day I still can't believe the ump really did think the guy went off the bag on his own and was not pulled. You clearly see him say "no". Thank God for replay now.

[@Kweeze513goon]

I don’t know anything about baseball but this Beltre guy is the comedian of baseball I see lol. The guy has fun for sure

[@faithoverevidence]

Honestly if your able to blow a baseball out of bounds before it reaches third base, thats pretty savage

[@uhohhotdog]

Should be legal as long as it’s not touched

[@jakesnussbuster3565]

Yea Idk how that could be defined

[@steverosengren1492]

Your??

[@durrrrl3435]

@Nisa Gomez 😂

[@alanhess9306]

@@jakesnussbuster3565 The league has decided that a player cannot influence the path of a batted ball.

[@baseballer81]

Beltre and Andrus made going to Rangers' game that much more worth it. Miss em both

[@PhatBoySteven]

Hurts even more that elvis is with the A’s 🤮

[@bigpapiii3554]

New title: Adrian Beltre bending MLB rules.

[@leodee3]

I love how many times Beltre is in this video. He's the best.

[@joetheastrosfan3460]

This video shows how much I miss Adrian Beltre’s antics on the field

[@kalebstuckey570]

“It’s 18 to 6” is one of my favorite calls from Eric Nadel’s Hall of Fame Career.

[@jbdixon4020]

2:35 he really began to chase Beltre up the LF line 😂

[@benhampson2065]

Beltre is literally in every single one of these What a legend

[@prettyd31]

I'm a Rays fan, but it's fun to watch Beltre's antics on the field.

[@lawrenceehrbar8667]

Years ago, I called our local sports radio and asked why major leaguers, with two outs, in extra innings, and bases loaded, the runner from 1st base fails to overrun 2nd base on attempted force out. Overrun it like they do at 1st to get there quicker. This way, you would need to be tagged out while rounding toward 3rd base. Meanwhile runner from third scores for winning run, ballgame over. It happens more than you think, a shortstop's throw from the hole gets the runner by a whisker. Anyway, the radio guy gave me short thrift on air and almost laughed at the stradegy. Years later, Bobby Valentine, as commentator on a nationally televised game said one should never overrun 2nd base unless it wins a ballgame as I described. Way to go Bobby. To this day though I have never seen it done.

[@MustangMike012]

Title should be Beltre had fun playing MLB. Wish all players would enjoy the game like he did.

[@KaoticOrder]

I had no idea Beltre that kind of sense of humor. That's funny.

[@BakedNConfused]

The guy that appears to be blowin on the baseball, looked like the baseball gained momentum

[@rathofturkey]

It was always fun watching Beltre play in Arlington. A great player with a great sense of humor. Very much a bummer when he retired.

[@brentmagerowski7886]

Heads up baseball is knowing what you’ll do before the pitch is thrown This is a perfect example

[@eauhomme]

Should have called this video "Beltre being Beltre". He was a treasure and is greatly missed.

[@matthewmcrobie6703]

I love how Beltre plays so many of these dead straight, what a legend 😂

[@jraymond1988]

Beltre is how "Manny being Manny" should have been done.

[@scarletrobin]

I love how Beltre always has such a straight face while being a complete goofball

[@kadebozeman7057]

I love beltre he had the biggest sense of humor

[@FredX1977]

I don't really watch baseball even though I'm a Tampa native but after watching this, Beltre is my favorite player.

[@angelsantiago9931]

Beltre will always be one of my favorite players baseball needed his style and vibes future HOF just off of that in my opinion

[@wes_german]

Beltre's are just him goofing around. That one at first where the dude pulled the guy off the bag in the World Series was BS.

[@Alveyjr21]

Beltre.... gotta love a guy that likes having fun

[@tiger5869]

Some of these involve objectively bad calls, but the first one was literally the umps making up a bs rule on the fly, which is absurd. If I was the manager I would have lost my mind over that.

[@mattfolet2168]

When an infielder deliberately drops a fair ball or a line drive to set up a double play situation, runners may safely return to the bases they occupied at the time of the pitch. ... Runners cannot advance under this rule. Umpires shall immediately call “Time,” when, in their judgment, the ball is intentionally dropped.. It’s a real rule

[@alisonpahlkotter3013]

It's just an implementation of the infield fly rule. The whole point of which is to prevent intentional drops to force extra outs

[@alanhess9306]

@@alisonpahlkotter3013 It's not the infield fly rule.

[@mrose4132]

Beltre looking like he’s just having fun...as it should be

[@Guru1197]

I remember watching that WS game with Gant and Hrbek. That play stood! I was a Braves fan. Very upset!

[@andrecanis4894]

First WS I watched and I still get angry about that call

[@gregorybenoit8526]

Haha, Beltre is in like half of these. Love that guy!

[@zulauf09]

i love how like half of these are just beltre screwing around having fun

[@LTDANMAN44]

beltre doing his best gingerbread man impression. YOU CANT GET ME! 2:30

[@hectorperez4375]

I love how almost every comment I've read was about Beltre. It makes me miss watching him play

[@MrFlippin24]

I never knew you can't drop a ball intentionally, apart for infield fly rules

[@AirtimeThrills]

I know, considering you're allowed to let a pop up bunt drop

[@russellcurtis2501]

@@AirtimeThrills Has to do with contact. If you don't touch the ball, it's legal. If that sharp line drive was a soft line drive that he could have allowed to bounce, that would have worked. I'm a Dodger fan but find this funny they don't learn from history. Bill Russell did the exact same thing in the 1977 (I think?) World Series. Reggie Jackson was the runner on first and he leaned his hip into the throw to Garvey at first. The umpires did not make either call and let the play stand as is. With the deflected throw Thurman Munson scored from second. So Russell would have been better off just catching the line drive.

[@AirtimeThrills]

@@russellcurtis2501 i never realized that the Jackson hip play started with an intentionally dropped liner. I went back and looked and yeah...sure did

[@DaveysCards]

Miss seeing Beltre, such an awesome guy, one of my favorite Rangers.

[@EEZYEEEE]

Someone watching baseball for the first time and seeing these would think the sport is absolutely nuts.

[@Devan-he4kr]

2:32 Kinda want to make a baseball league with no base paths. Can call it the XLB.

[@seanjost6683]

You should've included the David Aardsma pitch where it bounced into the strike zone and the catcher tried to frame it

[@leeharrison5718]

That ones a classic. If that umpire blinked he mightve called a strike. Ive never seen a ball so far out of the strikezone framed so well lol.

[@earlnation720]

This video could be called, "Beltre is the funniest dude in baseball..."

[@junkwaxlifehacks7972]

Beltre needs his own show!

[@danielchrisronan2281]

When did that rule change?! I remember being a kid and my father telling me, "Watch, he's going to drop the ball on purpose to turn a double play."

[@peoxys2720]

This compilation just proves why beltre is the single coolest baseball player of all time

[@kevinstull8552]

This video should be renamed The Adrian Beltre Highlight Show.

[@elgooso9645]

You can't drop a ball intentionally, but you can let it fall

[@elianlorenzosaenz1413]

It was such a pleasure watching Adrian with the rangers.

[@ENTERTAINMENT_DATABASE_Co.]

Beltre is just hilarious..

[@braydenpeterson27]

Beltre has to be one of the funniest players

[@johnf1235]

Beltre is such a character 😂🤣

[@russellny8086]

Dude blowing the ball is a legend 🤣

[@justinthompson7404]

Gant was very clearly pulled off the bag

[@logana5479]

I love how you made most of this video about Adrian Beltre and turned it into a comedy show

[@mikekleven8130]

Beltre's great... sure he might joke around and it's all in good fun but he's also a hell of a ball player

[@jamespisano1164]

Great compilation. Funny as hell.

[@WayneDisney-t6i]

Loved Beltre, he truly loved the game and had so much fun!

[@reedr7142]

Before I knew there was a rule against it, I purposely dropped a line drive at short in a bar softball league to turn a double play, which I did. The ump immediately called the batter out and put the runner back on first base.

[@hansel2001]

“If you’re not cheating, you’re not trying” - maybe Adrian Beltre

[@austininfactwasnthere]

0:39 I’m dying 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣

[@whiskeybuilder6335]

Willing to absorb an error for an out. I love it!

[@bayjrid0110]

More like a compilation of Beltre having fun

[@paul16451]

Yup, to let the ball bounce on purpose in the infield to get a double play in that situation; infield fly would only apply if there were runners on first and second.

[@jonathonthomits1322]

Adrian Beltre was an international treasure 🤣

[@mitchimusmaximus4849]

This was basically a Beltre clowning everyone highlight reel

[@georgefloydspaceshuttlepro1839]

I would love to see an outfielder in a critical tag up play intentionally pop the catch up into the air by using the flat backside of the glove and then catch it. I think this would cause the tag up to either freeze or completely miss the non catch first contact and then get easily thrown out at the tag up base

[@alanhess9306]

That would not work since the runner can advance as soon as the ball is touched by a fielder.

[@georgefloydspaceshuttlepro1839]

@@alanhess9306 yeah I realized that after when it was explained to me what you wrote. Still might fool some umps though

[@alanhess9306]

@@georgefloydspaceshuttlepro1839 No, it will not fool any reasonably well trained ump. It will only fool people ignorant of the rules.

[@RANDALLcod4]

I hit a triple back in high school. Then the third baseman pushed me off the bag and I was called out. I was livid. I was pitching that day too. Next time he came up to bat, I think God took over my arm because on the first pitch I was trying to hit him with a fastball. Instead, it ended up being strike one. I ended up striking him out.

[@jackjon7763]

If the umpire felt your momentum caused you to come off the bag then it’s the right call.

[@barbarapeters9947]

I love when the player gets down and trys to blow it foul

[@nickstelzer]

Love that this is just a Beltre high(and low)light reel haha.

[@mattwodziak1750]

Kent Hrbek maintains he never pulled the runner off the bag. He says it was his momentum that did it.

[@guilero2754]

Baseball and music my two true loves. I can't go a week without watching a few games and I can't go a day without listening to my favorite bands like Delta Parole.

[@isaiahpeterson1412]

@ 3:36: Beautiful slide by Altuve!

[@divinebeing2476]

Beltre is a comedian who happened to be really good at baseball

[@remy8531]

Only time Hanley Ramirez purposely dropped a ball lmao

[@KingJavon88]

Beltre just funny asl🤣🤣

[@PhilRockwell]

Second clip when the dude is, trying to blow the ball foul with his hot 🐲 🔥 breath. I lost it. 😂😂😆😏

[@chase6708]

Alternate title: Adrian Beltre having fun featuring other MLB player

[@aaronfaulkner2732]

Beltre is the meanest/funniest guy in baseball.

[@MadCatNobody]

i miss beltre so much

[@tylermccann848]

I love how half of this is just Beltre lol

[@BlindReferee27]

I was having fun, and then you added the Kent Hrbeck play 🙁

[@chiplitch]

Truth!

[@xzavierdrescher5933]

Beltre is always fun to watch lol

[@michaelyoungstrom9412]

I love and miss watching Beltre!

[@Orlandofinesse2tymes]

A-rod yelling ball in a fly ball was crazy

[@orlandofernandez9467]

Baseball misses Adrián Beltre's sense of humor and been so funny. Of course he is from DR.

[@goodmaro]

Interesting how on the intentional drop, the batter is safe and they give you the force out. I'd've thought the other way around.

[@austinroberts8636]

Wait how can they say he dropped it intentionally without proof. That seems wack.

[@trebeezy16]

I think its because he didnt close his glove. He intentionally left it open so the ball can drop

[@austinroberts8636]

@@trebeezy16 shit bruh you skate too lol??

[@trebeezy16]

@@austinroberts8636 Yup! lol

[@kyle1195]

@@trebeezy16 what rule says that’s not allowed I thought that was infield fly not sure you could rule that on a line drive down at a guys feet though I honestly don’t know how the rule works if that’s an illegal play seems fair to me if it actually had just gone off his glove he’d have turned a double play why due to the fact that he could have caught it does it matter when it isn’t worthy of infield fly in my eyes.

[@scottj7433]

@@kyle1195 holy sentence batman, use periods!

[@jesse75]

It helps to study acting. Our whole family has studied. I got in a car wreck. Did some acting. Got paid $20,000 for it. My oldest daughter gets A's because of it. My wife is a cocktail server. Gets tips like you won't believe. My youngest, acting helps her scare off the bullies. Whenever I get pulled over by the cops, I put on an act. I never get a ticket. If the shortstop took acting class, he would have gotten away with it.

[@markellzey1531]

Adrian Beltre is a treasure.