MLB Bunt Home Runs (Rare)

[@brianvanasse7627]

And that’s why you hustle down to first base because you never know what can happen if you hustle

[@mcs-bl6sg]

Right! It drives me nuts to see players doing a slow jog to first on a groundball just because they always assume it will be an easy out.

[@circusitch]

That’s why Pete Rose got 4,000+ hits. Not because he jogged.

[@adamrichter9599]

Multimillionaire professional athletes, averaging 3 to 4 at-bats in a game, and they can't be bothered to run hard 90 feet in the portion of those at-bats where they even put the ball into play, unless they're sure they have a good chance of making it (even though errors happen all the time on "routine" grounders)

[@ThunderPlayz599]

@@mcs-bl6sg no

[@nelsonbergman7706]

You can never embarrass yourself by hustling. ⚾

[@ZSleepingDragonZ]

They are officially ruled as singles because of the errors.

[@CranberryFo]

True. But it's still really fun to see when they happen. You'd pretty much have to be the Roadrunner to get a ruled Homerun off a bunt.

[@playdiscgolf1546]

“MLB Bunt little league home run”

[@0-by-1_Publishing_LLC]

Probably the most demoralizing play in baseball for the team that's on the field.

[@derekgusoff6768]

Right fielder should be backing these up

[@kevinlittlefield4994]

Exactly! This video shows why.

[@michaelmapes4119]

The right fielders need to learn to throw to Third as well!

[@skipyou2870]

Are these not scored as errors?

[@martinpaulsen1592]

Of course they are. But "bunted, then scored on a few errors" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

[@kevinlittlefield4994]

Yes, every one of them. All five would be scored as bunt singles (with the possible exception of the second one; might have been an out with a good throw), followed by one throwing error (the first and third examples) or two (the second, fourth, and fifth examples) that allowed the batter to take the extra bases. Stupid title for this video.

[@denniskelley8974]

Mostly singles and 3-base errors (sometimes split between two fielders).

[@johnsilva9139]

Yes. None of these guys got credit for a home run.

[@tonythorpe2531]

Don't outfielders back up the play anymore!?

[@DanStaal]

Sure they do. Nearly always. This is a video of the times they didn't.

[@johntabler349]

That's why there's only 4

[@Jdwify]

Freaking hysterical. Comedy of errors by the keystone cops.

[@RRaquello]

I saw Bud Harrelson get one of these vs. the Dodgers in a game I attended at Shea Stadium I think in 1972. I'm sure there's no video of it. One of the baseball history websites made a list of them going back to about 1900 and they're almost as rare as no-hitters.

[@denniskelley8974]

That last guy would have happily just stopped at 3rd. When the throw got past and the coach waved him home, you could almost hear him saying "Aw c'mon, I need to rest right here, please..."

[@samsonk2077]

Where’s Ichiro? It’s an iconic bunt home run he had

[@jorgealfonsostelling5021]

Yes!! He did have a bunt HR!

[@freezer8530]

Ichiro's bunt home run? HA! You were FOOLED! That video was DOCTORED!!!

[@bdbailey]

@@freezer8530No it’s real I actually caught the ball

[@PeterSedesse]

Second baseman trying to cover first is always gonna give problems.

[@davidpitchford6510]

Right fielders not routinely backing up throws to first and then failing to exercise impulse control in making wild, senseless throws to third base. This never happened in little league when I was right fielder.

[@billybandyk0720]

I remember the time where Mariano Duncan actually had a bunt double. The ball trickled down the 3rd-Base line & stopped on the fringe of the outfield grass near the line..@ that point, Duncan actually arrived @ 2nd Base. The 3rd Baseman thought the ball would roll foul (which it nvr did). He didn't touch the ball either. There4; this was a legit bunt double.

[@tsurdyk]

Bunt with a 4-base error is not a home run. Neither is a bunt single with a 3-base error.

[@austinwhite5488]

Why are they all making the long ass throw from right field when every runner was gonna safe anyway and risk an error when you can just throw home and stop the runner from advancing and still have a better shot at the runner even if there is a bad throw there

[@BillPresson]

It’s a little league home run.

[@martinpaulsen1592]

Got one, myself, way back when. Swung away, not bunted, but the throws to the bags kept going wild, so...

[@rencleavus5213]

The last video was at Tiger Stadium.

[@giantsfan185]

This is why I wish there was more foul territory, stuff like this could happen more often

[@denniskelley8974]

Well, they did run quite a bit. And in the end they made it all the way home. So yep... HOME RUN it is! 😀

[@Benmoore1776]

These are bunt singles where they were able to advance on errors. They aren’t home runs.

[@seantimmons5900]

No... shit. There is no such thing as a bunt home run inasmuch as there is no such thing as a little league home run. We understand the term to mean a ball hit into the defense ending in the bayyer scoring. Way to go, hero. Way to go.

[@OGMikeGyver]

Thanks for clarifying. We had no idea

[@Benmoore1776]

@@seantimmons5900 Just because you understood doesn’t mean everybody does. Keep it up with that pretentious attitude. I’m sure you’ll go far in life with it.

[@azd685]

🤓

[@seantimmons5900]

@@Benmoore1776 I'm the pretentious one?

[@karlkelman4485]

In third grade little league, I experimented with a strategy of just keep running no matter what. Odds are you'd get a bad throws or bad catches and could make it home. Of course, that's terrible strategy at a higher level, and the coaches hated it even if it worked.

[@mjmorriplymouth]

Good ole days of Little League.

[@1nm1]

Has anyone gotten to first on a strike out and scored a home run due fielder issues?

[@mirrorblue100]

Heads up base running.

[@wardberger3777]

My Dad called them Little League home runs

[@yourpalborno]

What’s wrong with the Tigers? Yikes.

[@jldavid47]

How much time do you have? 😂

[@OriginalCoastalDistancing]

Not a single HR in this video.

[@kevinlittlefield4994]

Exactly. All five would be scored as bunt singles (with the possible exception of the second one; might have been an out with a good throw), followed by one throwing error (the first and third examples) or two (the second, fourth, and fifth examples) that allowed the batter to take the extra bases.

[@theaccordian9377]

The batter scored a run. No need to be pretentious.

[@zachPlushgaming]

Can't believe people really thought they were getting actual bunt home runs. It's the same thing, and he's not gonna title the video "bunt singles with errors that caused them to round every base" 😂

[@deanguthrie7222]

These are NOT homeruns.......they are errors.

[@zekerton7262]

…were you expecting the ball to fly out of the park from a bunt?

[@Ibhenriksen]

You should have thrown in that fake Japanese one for sh*t and giggles.

[@paul16451]

These aren't even hits. 4 base throwing errors in each case.

[@kevinlittlefield4994]

I think that all five would be scored as bunt singles (with the possible exception of the second one; might have been an out with a good throw), followed by one throwing error (the first and third examples) or two (the second, fourth, and fifth examples) that allowed the batter to take the extra bases.

[@undertakerfanz628]

the most embarrassing play in baseball

[@jcoogs7149]

Just to spite all these people who say a bunt home run is impossible, I want to see a bunt where no one fields the ball and the batter comes around to score. It can’t be an error if no one touches the ball, so it would have to be scored a home run

[@billucf96]

Awful click bait...thumbs down for lying

[@freezer8530]

It's not lying or click-bait at all. These are "little league home runs", so-called because these are the type of plays children who play little league ball like to refer to as "home runs" as they excitedly describe their achievement to their grandparents over the phone.

[@HolySoliDeoGloria]

Same. Creator could have at least used quotation marks!

[@cloudkitt]

Who are these people expecting that someone bunted a ball out of the park?