Even more than that, I'd say they were the mostest rarest plays.
@msm20127 ай бұрын
Another excellent and rare play is The Catch by Willie Mays (1954 WS game 1)
@stevehammond915611 ай бұрын
This is why baseball is so much more exciting to watch than football. The plate and mound are 60 feet apart. A baseball traveling at 95 mph traverses that distance in 0.43 seconds. In that span of time the batter must pick up the ball as it leaves the pitcher's hand, predict where the ball will be when it reaches the plate and swing the bat, which is slightly smaller in diameter than the ball, and make contact. It is amazing that anyone ever gets wood on the ball.
@matthewstorer823611 ай бұрын
Well said! Hitting a round ball with a round bat and hitting it "square" is one of the most difficult things to do. Especially when you have less than half a second for your hand/eye coordination to get it done.
@robertbrown74708 ай бұрын
Here's one of the best defensive plays I've seen as a plate umpire. Was doing a Big League game many years ago. Runner on third, less than two outs. Fly ball to center field. I'd say it was a good 180 feet from the plate. CF catches the ball, runner tags and runs for the plate. The catcher literally put his catcher's mitt on the ground in front of the plate (3rd base side of the plate). The catcher didn't move his mitt except to close it. It literally went straight into the pocket without moving his mitt. I can still see the runners foot sliding in to the mitt. Beat him by an inch or so. Catcher closes the mitt, runner is out. For the next couple innings the runner would pace back and forth in the dugout saying he was safe. He should have been safe, except for a literally perfect throw.
@jordandehart57002 ай бұрын
0:47 Great play, but let's be real, the first baseman had two options with the line drive smoked at him. Option 1: make the play. Option 2: die of blunt force trauma from a baseball. Good for him for choosing option 1.
@JD-115688 ай бұрын
More comments on proper English than comments on how much time it took to put all this together. GREAT JOB ! ❤ Love baseball highlights.
@leifjohnson6172 ай бұрын
Personally I take great pride in writing and speaking English as well as I can. Apparently you do not.
@BeeSport2 ай бұрын
Thank you for your kind words! I appreciate your feedback and love for baseball highlights. Keep enjoying the game!
@stevegarvin56078 ай бұрын
Half of these plays were a behind the back or a backhand throw from the Shortstop to second, then a throw to first for the double play.
@Mylesthehunter Жыл бұрын
13:51 that double play may be in the top five double plays ever
@defekt87 Жыл бұрын
Its the smile by Pena that gets me every time on Swisher.
@Baseballinsider Жыл бұрын
is 😈
@Mylesthehunter Жыл бұрын
Bro it is
@xxxtentacion3564 Жыл бұрын
He had been waiting to do that for so long
@kevinbeazy8 ай бұрын
Imagine if mlb players hustled and ran through first base when they hit the ball
@billyskittles1036 Жыл бұрын
2:45 the infield fly should have been called there.
@debbylou5729Ай бұрын
Had to be in the infield
@mrobvious110024 күн бұрын
I believe that is incorrect I believe the rule states that if the in Fielder can make a reasonable play on the pop-up. The standard is usually if the infielder is running away from the batter with his back to the infield it is not a reasonable play for an infielder. But I did not see anything in the rule book that states he must be standing on dirt.
@ryantownsend273011 ай бұрын
This great plays defense baseball man
@buddybates32478 ай бұрын
Baseball has always been a Fun sport. No contact sport's are the most best.(Lol) ✌😁
@DavidJones-ey6ieАй бұрын
What a grab by catch on that hot shot to third.
@245194LAC9 ай бұрын
"Most rarest?" Most Important. Most Impressive. NEVER most rarest. Where did you go to school?
@iforgetiremember52435 ай бұрын
i'm just a filthy casual, and my opinion is invalid (probably) but this video was a great watch. not too short, and not too long either. 10/10
@gurk_the_magnificent90087 ай бұрын
1:32 Altuve's reaction at getting faked out 😆
@user-uk7sq1ki6b10 ай бұрын
3:15 That was a cute take on the hidden ball trick.. Most rarest? Are they more better?.
@rayboots20829 ай бұрын
Two of them were clear infield fly that was not called for some reason.
@josephtaylor5077 Жыл бұрын
Every one of your highlight videos is missing the SF Giants’ Kevin Mitchell over the head barehanded catch in Left Field. I don’t remember who they were playing but they were the visitors.
@Baseballinsider Жыл бұрын
Thanks bro i looking that plays for the next video
@natefiske108211 ай бұрын
Cardinals/Ozzie Smith
@alfalfa52719582 ай бұрын
I've seen a ball girl do that while climbing the wall.
@oogrooq2 ай бұрын
I apparently don't understand the infield fly rule.
@Dofgofdogy2 ай бұрын
Same loool
@robertodare7791Ай бұрын
this is why they get the big bucks for sure!!!
@angusmackaskill3035Ай бұрын
the triple play
@bignashty1005 ай бұрын
Was the foul tip that bounced off the catchers mask not a foul ball? I need to back and look, wouldn’t be an out unless there were two strikes.
@mamalannightshyaman2 ай бұрын
3:13 that was one of the most embarrassing baserunning mistakes I have ever seen
@mrobvious110024 күн бұрын
I would like to see Major League Baseball change the rule on allowing an infielder to purposely not catch a ball under unsportsmanlike conduct. They have that for lots of other plays where the player is violating the spirit of the rule or the game.
@forestg174311 ай бұрын
“Most rarest”? Is that term clickbait?
@JRAFF14510 ай бұрын
Sorry for the criticism - There is no term "Most Rarest". Title would be better as: "Rarest Defensive Plays in Baseball".
@mikekemsley153111 ай бұрын
Most rarest? Are they more better?
@Lowkey-NoPressure10 ай бұрын
can someone explain to me the significance of the choices on the play at 5:44 ?
@HowsDaJello7 ай бұрын
I am so confused by it too because it seemingly had the same outcome whether or not he did the drop trick or not. The only thing I can think (if it was on purpose to drop it) is that they wanted to have a slower runner on first base instead of a faster runner. But I don’t even know the players and if that’s a true statement about their speed lol. Only other thing is a potential double play opportunity.
@aaronaguilar91722 ай бұрын
because trout is a faster runner than pujols, they wanted to put the slower player on base instead
@whyicare11 ай бұрын
It appears that many of these players don't have a clue about "infield fly rule". If the umpire raises his fist on a batted ball, the batter is automatically out and the runners run at his own risk.
@mrobvious110024 күн бұрын
Anyone else think it's really dirty, even though it's in the rules, for an infielder to intentionally drop the ball or refuse to catch the ball, allowing him to double up the team at bat.
@nicko_mode33567 ай бұрын
Why were so many of these in the last video too
@mikestephen3086 Жыл бұрын
“Most rarest”? Look up “Double Superlative”
@cwolf208Ай бұрын
How is 2:47 not the IFF rule? And again at 3:30. Terrible umpiring.
@chrisowens6556 Жыл бұрын
The most amazing play I ever saw was Jeet gunning down the runner at the plate. What was he even doing on that side of the field?!
@mrobvious110024 күн бұрын
I've been umpiringfor 35 years in high school, I don't pretend I am some Elite official, how was that not an infield fly rule, when the batter swung and checked his swing, which is not a bunt attempt, and the ball clearly took a vertical plane
@Tucker265 ай бұрын
The one with Colorado at 4:46 was accidental🤣
@Tucker265 ай бұрын
The one with Cubs at 5:31 was also accidental
@gareof11 ай бұрын
"Most Rarest" ? Where's the editor ?
@jimoconnor2958Ай бұрын
Some people just can't help themselves
@tombillotto6335 Жыл бұрын
"Most rarest"?!
@casartherandom301011 ай бұрын
Why is 4:46 not an infield fly rule?
@chrispearson38132 ай бұрын
Not a runner on 1st and 2nd or 1st 2nd and 3rd with less than 2 outs.
@thesjyoungjr11 ай бұрын
I'm watching these young men making these great plays, but I've never seen any of them doing a celebration like " nfl/ncaa players" do after just about every play.
@walter657410 ай бұрын
The most memorable nfl dance I saw was while watching the game live on tv. An interception happened. Three black rectifiers acted like cops, padded down the black player who intercepted the ball. Put his hands behind his back and lead him away. I guess they took him away for burglary? They never showed that on any NFL news shows. It was great. They put some thought into that.
@mrobvious110024 күн бұрын
Does anyone else find it ridiculous to think that was an amazing defensive Play When a ball Ricochet is off of a player's back and then goes 20 ft in the air and all you have to do is take four steps and catch it
@BabyDoIIx Жыл бұрын
Sorry to do this but this drives me INSANE… It’s just ‘rarest’ not most rarest lol. If you HAVE to add, ‘most’ then you don’t put ‘rarest’… should look like this: ‘Rarest def. Plays’ Or ‘Most rare def plays’ (though this is pretty poor English… first is better..)
@Baseballinsider Жыл бұрын
😊
@Baseballinsider Жыл бұрын
Thanks 😊
@rdaltry7772 ай бұрын
Shouldn't it be "most rarerest" defensive plays?
@bazzer1242 ай бұрын
MOST rarest? Superlatives are self explanatory. Cheers....
@jasonboisseau40911 ай бұрын
That catch by Renfroe doesn’t even look right. You shouldn’t be able to catch a ball like that lol
@peterjohnson61711 ай бұрын
I don`t think the word "rarest" has any need to be qualified with the word "Most"
@rickrickard2788 Жыл бұрын
There are thousands of great plays to choose from, so I'm guessing it's not easy to choose, and even worse, if you try to please everyone. Never gonna happen, that latter one. Had a few good Crawford one's, but he's a highlight reel too. Just wish there was more of Arenado. One didn't do him justice... Just like the damn Rockies- a team which, after the Helton era passed, sabotaged themselves over & over again. Watching them continuously dump World Series talent, not making the effort when the team is on the verge of winning it all, (or maybe just to baseball illiterate? Nah, they just didn't want to do it), they've just been a train wreck to watch the past 10 years. The needed was always the same; Closers. They didn't care, and it cost us. And it was disgustingly unfair to the players, who I personally watched giving their all for the club. Just like my other team, the Giants. Ripped for not being a "big ball" club, made fun of & ridiculed, they were a TEAM- and management CARED. They DID go out and shore up any tiny weak spots, and it showed. Time & again. World Series after World Series. The Rockies, did not. What I think really happened? There was probably some lowbie.. say one of the coaches or someone similar, maybe the janitor, (because most of us KNEW what was needed), who told them EXACTLY what was needed- and that just flamed the Owners hide. So that's EXACTLY what they DIDN'T get. Like bringing in San Diego manager Bud Black. Nice man. Terrible manager. Always has been. Boy did I go off on the Rockies Facebook page back in 2017, wrote to them, and had to slap-back the ignorant, who cheered his hiring, while they let go of the man who BUILT the Rockies into the contender they'd become. MAKE NO DAMN MISTAKE- They Rockies were on the verge of winning a World Series. It took this asinine move, to destroy what Walt Weiss had built. HE had the right formula, but it takes time to CREATE a WINNER. And boy did he. Remember in that movie "Major League", when that moron woman tried to do all she could to sabotage the Cleveland Indians? It was kinda like that- except, they stopped at NOTHING to make it happen here. And so they have. The Rockies are now the joke I told ALL they'd become. All the great talent has moved on to FAR better things, save a couple of very good men, who actually care about the FANS, and knew their time in baseball was nearing it's end. Good men. And then WOKE hit this moronic team, as well. I know this was coming, too. Stopped watching baseball all together, years ago. It's an AMERICAN GAME. Our great past time. And they've destroyed it. Every year, getting worse. They don't deserve our loyalty or support. Not until they find their "AMERICAN" again. So, for myself, I'm left with highlights from yesteryear, and appreciating great plays. But not from the past few years. Some are still good- but I don't know who many of these players are, nor if they are supporting this criminality destroying our sports, or not. So I enjoy just those plays, I DO know. Works for me. Because it has to. I love my country, above all else. What used to be the greatest nation on earth, UNITED, with ACTUAL love for their fellow man, and sports fans. There was no racism, save from the pathetic few- and they will ALWAYS exist. This criminal, evil media, just makes it SEEM there's some kind of systemic BS going on. There isn't. THEY help divide us, in order to destroy us, and bring in some insane "Utopian Empire", where they turn America, no, the whole world, into an EPSTEIN-type playground, for the extremely wealthy. I don't play that game. I play the AMERICAN game. Today, I spend my time trying to fight against this tyranny, and trying to find ways to get Americans to realize that this is OUR COUNTRY. That trash in Washington DC? WORKS FOR US. WE CONTROL THIS COUNTRY. THEY'RE trying to find ways to BRING IT DOWN, so that FREEDOM & LIBERTY are a thing of the past. How the hell would I KNOW this? I was recruited by this filth, to be a part of what they're doing, back in the late 70s, that's how. So I know exactly what's going on, and have been warning about it for over 40 years. None would listen. Now here we are. It will only get worse. They don't care about any of this- Sports, "POC", otherwise known as their idiocy, "people of color", the poor, the disabled, so-called "Climate Change"- NONE OF IT. They seek CONTROL & POWER. PERIOD. And they're winning. In fact, American is damn near dead now. I see it, clear as day. But they've gotten all of YOU, to buy back in to these "American Past-times", which help us to escape from the grind of life. And this? Blinds people to the TRUTH of what's being ripped from your grasp, without y'all really knowing or caring- because you're just glad it's baseball season again, or football, or whatever. They just need to keep it up for a bit long- Then? They'll finally have all the POWER & CONTROL needed, to enslave us all. And when that day comes, and it comes very, very quickly? That day y'all realize your liberty & freedom have been stripped from you, completely, while y'all allowed them to do so? It will be far, far too late, to ever get it back again. They learned from the past mistakes of evil, how to never again lose, as those before them did. Look around you today, REALLY LOOK. If you're honest with yourselves? You'll have NO F'ING CLUE, what nation it is, in which you now reside. And this, should terrify all of you into action- but it won't. Because they've worn us all down & out, with so much chaos, that all people wish to do, is escape. So on they march... ever forward. Urinating & craping on the graves of those, who gave everything they had, and would ever have, so that we could all live in liberty & freedom, for generations to come... .. While we all allowed them to do, exactly this. This may not seem like the time & place for such a rant? But I'm pretty much censored everywhere I could still fight. So I do what I must. Because I will NEVER stop, trying to STOP THEM. EVER. This is OUR country- not theirs. I WILL NEVER STOP- until I'm dead.
@maddie736811 ай бұрын
what the actual fuck
@TheLandfillFire11 ай бұрын
I loved your comment.
@hughmeloche-bd8tv Жыл бұрын
John Lennon is correct. Use either Most Rare or Rarest but not both.
@DonaldandGina11 ай бұрын
What's so rare about these plays.
@kevinbeazy8 ай бұрын
They would be “more better” if the players hitting the ball actually ran through first base and got thrown out. Most of them are basically jogging
@T0n3man9 ай бұрын
Stop using 'Most Rarest'! Grammar!
@johnlennon335 Жыл бұрын
"Most Rarest" is poor English.
@Baseballinsider Жыл бұрын
Little bit
@brian3319 Жыл бұрын
I only clicked on this video to say that he must have failed English in school. Hopefully, his future posts will be more better! haha
@Mylesthehunter Жыл бұрын
@@brian3319 Fr bro fr
@chasl2216 Жыл бұрын
Looks like a, comment generator ☺
@gavinwright723811 ай бұрын
Who cares…?
@dougamundson68365 ай бұрын
Most Rarest? Har, har, har.....
@jackinabox8497 Жыл бұрын
At 5:15 an umpire seems to penalise a 2nd baseman for "intentionally " not catching the ball, I imagine the 2nd baseman was going for a double play. HERE IS MY PROBLEM. I'm Australian and don't know enough about baseball, except I love watching the game. Is it illegal or smart baseball, playing a sequence that results in better outcome for your team or is the catch for only a single out more sportsman like or in accordance with the "spirit", of the game ? I personally think that allowing the ball to fall to the ground, or even be helped to the ground by the fielder, to achieve a "double", should be encouraged and certainly NEVER penalised. (I can hear you all telling me to "shut-up" and "stay away from our baseball") . I sincerely mean no disrespect. It's just Interesting. Thanks for the great channel. Bob. Australia.
@frankparkerjr.8508 Жыл бұрын
In baseball, there is what is called the "Infield fly rule" - where basically, if it's a playable fly ball in the infield, and runners are forced to advance, the batter is called out automatically whether or not the fielder catches it. There's a few more examples in this package, where it should've been called, and wasn't - and so defenders end up making bush league double plays.
@jackinabox8497 Жыл бұрын
@Frank Parker Jr. Thank you Frank, for taking the time to explain. Bob. Australia
@HiImSeanIPlayBass11 ай бұрын
There is no such thing as “most rarest”. There is either “rarest” or “most rare”.
@escuaztec51156 ай бұрын
S jj
@debbylou5729Ай бұрын
Chinese channel
@tregrad7 ай бұрын
used to love baseball and was a hardcore fan for most of my 58 years until mlb went woke and let the sisters of perpetual what ever in. mlb is woke and DEAD just as is the nba and the nfl.