If a pitcher doesn't allow any hits but gives up a walk or a batter gets on base by a fielding error; it's still considered a no-hitter. A perfect game is when a pitcher throws a complete game and doesn't allow the opposing team to get on base.
Oh, I loved seeing Satchel Paige on here. There are some great names in baseball, and Satchel Paige has always been my favorite, along with Vida Blue, Willie Mays, Mookie Betts, and Goose Gossage.
1:57 - Absolutely nailed that one. Nestor Cortez is definitely someone to look into. He doesn’t have crazy speed or movement, but he essentially purposefully changes his mechanics for *every* pitch he throws, and that alone can completely obliterate the timing of a batter he would be facing. So yes, goofy styles do indeed get into batters heads every once in awhile.
Nasty Nestor is just crazy ... his leg shaking , trowing a pitch in 4 seconds and the next pitch he's waiting 30 seconds.... him against Ohtani was hilarious 👌🤣🤣🤣
If you watch enough baseball, you start to get really good at recognizing players just based on their distinct styles. If you ever played baseball, you probably tried to emulate some of your favorite ones. I used to love copying Kevin Youkilis’s batting stance (one of the weirder ones) and Clayton Kershaw’s pitching motion (it’s a unique one but also very smooth looking to me). My dad liked to copy Joe Morgan, who used to play for the Reds in the 70s and used to twitch his left elbow up and down when he was batting. Baseball players probably have more quirks and superstitions than any athletes I reckon.
I would love to see you guys react to Jim Abbott. He's was a one handed pitcher. He had to catch and throw the ball with the same hand. Its a pretty intriguing story i think you guys would like.
Hitting is about timing. Pitching is about upsetting that timing. An unorthodox delivery by a pitcher can make things difficult for a batter. Also, a pitcher who hides the ball well makes it harder for a batter to pick up the ball (with your eyes) when it's delivered.
I can't believe they left out "The Bird" Mark Fidrych! His antics on the mound before each pitch was as weird as any of the weird pitches in this video.
The high arcing pitch also known as the eephus pitch can be really difficult to hit. As a hitter you're used to having balls thrown towards you anywhere from 60-100 MPH, in a fairly straight line with some movement down or to the side. The eephus pitch goes up, and then comes down at a much greater angle than you're used to, and it's traveling at about 15 MPH. Your brain is telling you to swing the bat really early because it's used to seeing pitches around 80 MPH, and when you swing, the bat crosses the front part of home plate before the ball even gets there. I've seen high school aged kids who play baseball try and transition to slow pitch softball, and it's hilarious watching them try to hit a ball that's much bigger and they can't because their brain is used to the ball being pitched at a higher speed, and coming at a different angle. Also if you were to watch a true submarine pitcher, that in my opinion is one of the most unique/weird pitching styles out there. There were a few guys that were close to a submarine style pitch, but they were either side arming or half way between submarining and side arm pitching.
Yes so pitchers used the glove and their body to hide the ball until the exact moment of release. As a batter you have to learn where a pitchers release point is and the tough part is just locating it at full speed. The side arm and nearly underhand pitchers are hard because the release point is in a weird spot. But as a batter you have to learn to adjust.
The pitcher with the weird start where people in the stands are mimicking him is Craig Kimbrel. He is a closer and just got his 400th save right before the All-Star Break. He's played for several teams. Most recently with the Cubs, White Sox, Dodgers and Phillies. He won a World Series with the Red Sox. He's one of the best in the business and most likely a future Hall Of Famer.
Perfect game is no base-runners allowed--27 come to bat, 27 are out. No-hitters can have baserunners--as such there are ways to actually lose a no-hitter. For example top of the ninth--score tied 0-0--First batter walks. Second batter bunts him to second base (second batter out). Third batter hits a deep out to center field (2 outs) but the man on second moves to third ("tags up" after the catch). Fourth batter comes up but the first pitch is wild and the man on third scores--1-0 lead for the team with no hits. Fourth batter then strikes out to end the top of the inning. Then you don't score in the bottom of the ninth--you lose 1-0, but pitch a no-hitter.
One interesting pitcher they didn't show was Jim Abbott who has born without a right hand. He rested his glove on the right arm and threw with his left hand, then quickly transitioned the glove to his left hand in case he needed to catch a ball. He was a decent player and played for the Angels, Yankees and White Sox.
Hitting is all about timing, pitching is all about disrupting the batter's timing. So a weird hiccup or quirk in a guy's delivery definitely throws the batters for a loop
When I was young, the pitcher that open my eyes to pitchers having their own unique style was Rick Sutcliffe (CHC). At the end of his wind-up, he’d curl the ball behind his leg before delivery
Fastest pitch is by Nolan Ryan--(the hardest thrower ever who had 7--yes 7 no hitters in his career--the person in second place had 4). Nolan had a pitched clocked at 101 mph, but back then it was recorded as it crossed the plate--today in MLB it is recorded just after leaving the pitcher's hand. They recalculated the pitch Ryan threw using today's measure at 108.3 mph--and that was recorded during warm-up throws by Ryan just for the fun of it--during his career his catchers said he threw many harder pitches than that--some say up to 115mph--but they did not record each pitch then as they do now, so only the one pitch by him has a good measurement. There is a video about this fastball pitchers over time--history of the fastball in baseball. But Ryan was THE man--he threw his last no-hitter when he was 44 years old! Also, he came back to be honored by throwing the first pitch of the game at 63 years old and threw it at an estimated 85mph---and he clearly was not throwing it as hard as he could. Good documentary that came out this year (or last) about him called "Facing Nolan Ryan".
There is some station that has Shown a pro Cricket Player and a MLBaseball Meeting Up and teach/try translating talent into one another’s sport. It was Cool
The pitcher is always trying to deceive the hitter. Some use different arm slots, release points, hesitation, hide the ball with their leg, body or glove. They're trying to change the hitters eye level, disrupt their swing timing, throw high and inside toward their head to make the hitter uncomfortable.
6:50 Greg Harris. Did you notice that the pitcher was ambidextrous? He threw with one arm and then switched to his other arm for the next batter. He wore a special glove that could be switched from one hand to the other.
It Does throw batters off their game... thats why people do it. Batters somewhat come to expect pitches to come from a certain place, or after a certain amount of time... if your unique pitching style changes that on them, it can mean the most minute problems...which is plenty in a game of inches like baseball.
The "wind up" as it is called, before the pitch can be very distracting and can conceal until the last minute from where the ball will be released making it harder for the batter to pick up the ball quickly--which of course is critical given that they have hundreths of a second or process the pitch and swing. You will see some of that here (Luis Tiant did this and released his pitches from multiple angles.
A perfect game is No hits, No errors and No walks No baserunners at all. A no hitter is just No hits but includes either a walk an error or a strike 3 pass ball.
Pitching styles can mean a ton - as you commented on here, some guys with their motion can look a lot faster than they actually are (or vice versa). Some guys can really mess with the timing (as did Jonny Cueto) each pitch and keep the batter guessing when the ball will be thrown (as well as how fast and where). And lastly, some of the weird styles are done to hide the ball for as long as possible, so the batter isn't able to see it and react to it until its too late. It's a thing that can make or break players who can't simply just rely on speed or movement to do everything.
I think that was what is sometimes is called an Ephus pitch at 7:20 (old time Washington vs Yankees). The batter did not hit a home run. He fouled it back.
It's harder in baseball than cricket to only follow the ball bc the pitcher is elevated. I grew up playing baseball and have played cricket. It's a lot different. In baseball, you have to decide if you are going to swing or not in cricket it's more where and what angle you're going to swing.
Yes if they do it right they can hide the ball from the batter w their delivery. Making it impossible to see any spin. Batters look for spin out of a pitchers hand to tell if its an offspeed pitch. Hiding the ball from view w a weird leg kick or twisting your body can be the difference.
The longer you can hide the release point of your pitcher, the harder it is for the batter to anticipate the trajectory. Most of batting is muscle memory too so if you come against a submarine style or side handed pitcher, when most pitchers are more conventional (especially during batting practice) it throws many batters off their game.
Many of the "weirder" styles were tantamount to a balk basically, which is why the MLB kinda clamped down on "out of left field" styles that were just bonkers looking. That one guy who basically skipped and stopped off the mound, that was totally a balk (and the announcers were basically saying as much). They won't call it a balk because by definition there has to be runners on base - but I mean, yeah.
Aidan is spot on right 1:57. Hitting is about both Timing and Vision. These awkward deliveries can really throw off a hitter's timing. If a pitcher can make a batter wait even a split-second longer due to a weird wind up, that can be a real advantage for the pitcher.
I know it's natural to compare "pitching" in cricket to baseball...but there is no comparison. In baseball, the ball arrives in a FRACTION of a second. The batter has to make his decision in (literally) the blink of an eye. And when you think the 95 mph fastball is coming (because you DON'T know what's coming), you get the 85 mph curveball. And you have to decide which is which. Before you blink. That's why failing 3 out of 10 times (in baseball) could make you one of the best to ever play.
cricket is bowled from a similar distance to a baseball pitch. A bowler will take a long run up to bowl. Let's say it is a fast bowler, he will bowl at around 95mph with a bounce in front of the batsman. The batsman will not know how that will bounce and have a split second to decide. It could seam left or right, turn, bounce high etc. very similar if you ask me. Not sure what you may think happens in cricket but there are many ways to bowl similar to the different pitches in baseball.
Just to be clear, a no-hitter is not the same as a perfect game. A no hitter means that no batter was able to gain an actual hit. However, a perfect game is a no-hitter where there are also no errors or walks (base on balls) that result in a batter ending up on base. No-hitters, while certainly a big deal are much more common than perfect games. There have been 320 no hitters in MLB history, 24 of which were perfect games.
If a pitcher doesn't allow any hits but gives up a walk or a batter gets on base by a fielding error; it's still considered a no-hitter. A perfect game is when a pitcher throws a complete game and doesn't allow the opposing team to get on base.
So a perfect game means no hits, no errors and no walks.
@@yjb854 Pretty much
@@yjb85427 batters, 27 outs, nobody reached first = perfect game.
No I wasn’t asking a question lol, I was explaining, Im American!
@@yjb854 I'm adding to it too for them limeys :)
Oh, I loved seeing Satchel Paige on here. There are some great names in baseball, and Satchel Paige has always been my favorite, along with Vida Blue, Willie Mays, Mookie Betts, and Goose Gossage.
1:57 - Absolutely nailed that one. Nestor Cortez is definitely someone to look into. He doesn’t have crazy speed or movement, but he essentially purposefully changes his mechanics for *every* pitch he throws, and that alone can completely obliterate the timing of a batter he would be facing.
So yes, goofy styles do indeed get into batters heads every once in awhile.
Nasty Nestor is just crazy ... his leg shaking , trowing a pitch in 4 seconds and the next pitch he's waiting 30 seconds.... him against Ohtani was hilarious 👌🤣🤣🤣
Absolutely. Pitchers will 'acquire' a release just to F with the batter, and try and hide the pitch.
If you watch enough baseball, you start to get really good at recognizing players just based on their distinct styles. If you ever played baseball, you probably tried to emulate some of your favorite ones. I used to love copying Kevin Youkilis’s batting stance (one of the weirder ones) and Clayton Kershaw’s pitching motion (it’s a unique one but also very smooth looking to me). My dad liked to copy Joe Morgan, who used to play for the Reds in the 70s and used to twitch his left elbow up and down when he was batting. Baseball players probably have more quirks and superstitions than any athletes I reckon.
It was Griffey Jr and Nomo for me
Mine was Jim Thome lol
I learned to throw submarine style because I was a big fan of Byung-hyun Kim on the D-backs.
I would love to see you guys react to Jim Abbott. He's was a one handed pitcher. He had to catch and throw the ball with the same hand. Its a pretty intriguing story i think you guys would like.
Hitting is about timing. Pitching is about upsetting that timing. An unorthodox delivery by a pitcher can make things difficult for a batter. Also, a pitcher who hides the ball well makes it harder for a batter to pick up the ball (with your eyes) when it's delivered.
Sidearm pitchers are my favorite baseball players. Truly amazing
I can't believe they left out "The Bird" Mark Fidrych! His antics on the mound before each pitch was as weird as any of the weird pitches in this video.
The high arcing pitch also known as the eephus pitch can be really difficult to hit. As a hitter you're used to having balls thrown towards you anywhere from 60-100 MPH, in a fairly straight line with some movement down or to the side. The eephus pitch goes up, and then comes down at a much greater angle than you're used to, and it's traveling at about 15 MPH. Your brain is telling you to swing the bat really early because it's used to seeing pitches around 80 MPH, and when you swing, the bat crosses the front part of home plate before the ball even gets there. I've seen high school aged kids who play baseball try and transition to slow pitch softball, and it's hilarious watching them try to hit a ball that's much bigger and they can't because their brain is used to the ball being pitched at a higher speed, and coming at a different angle.
Also if you were to watch a true submarine pitcher, that in my opinion is one of the most unique/weird pitching styles out there. There were a few guys that were close to a submarine style pitch, but they were either side arming or half way between submarining and side arm pitching.
pitching style can definitely mess with the batter, its all about timing. But after seeing them a few times they get use to it
Dan Quisenberry was the premier submarine pitcher back in the day. I can remember friends in little league trying to copy his style.
Not surprised Q was in the video however there have been submarine pictures who dang near scrape their knuckles on the ground.
A weird delivery DEFINITELY does affect the batter
@7:00 that guy was a switch handed pitcher. He pitched right and left handed depending on what handed the batter was
That pitching form, sticking his leg straight out, worked for Bronson Arroyo. He is being inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame tonight.
Yes so pitchers used the glove and their body to hide the ball until the exact moment of release. As a batter you have to learn where a pitchers release point is and the tough part is just locating it at full speed. The side arm and nearly underhand pitchers are hard because the release point is in a weird spot. But as a batter you have to learn to adjust.
The pitcher with the weird start where people in the stands are mimicking him is Craig Kimbrel. He is a closer and just got his 400th save right before the All-Star Break. He's played for several teams. Most recently with the Cubs, White Sox, Dodgers and Phillies. He won a World Series with the Red Sox. He's one of the best in the business and most likely a future Hall Of Famer.
Perfect game is no base-runners allowed--27 come to bat, 27 are out. No-hitters can have baserunners--as such there are ways to actually lose a no-hitter. For example top of the ninth--score tied 0-0--First batter walks. Second batter bunts him to second base (second batter out). Third batter hits a deep out to center field (2 outs) but the man on second moves to third ("tags up" after the catch). Fourth batter comes up but the first pitch is wild and the man on third scores--1-0 lead for the team with no hits. Fourth batter then strikes out to end the top of the inning. Then you don't score in the bottom of the ninth--you lose 1-0, but pitch a no-hitter.
One interesting pitcher they didn't show was Jim Abbott who has born without a right hand. He rested his glove on the right arm and threw with his left hand, then quickly transitioned the glove to his left hand in case he needed to catch a ball. He was a decent player and played for the Angels, Yankees and White Sox.
Hitting is all about timing, pitching is all about disrupting the batter's timing. So a weird hiccup or quirk in a guy's delivery definitely throws the batters for a loop
When I was young, the pitcher that open my eyes to pitchers having their own unique style was Rick Sutcliffe (CHC). At the end of his wind-up, he’d curl the ball behind his leg before delivery
Fastest pitch is by Nolan Ryan--(the hardest thrower ever who had 7--yes 7 no hitters in his career--the person in second place had 4). Nolan had a pitched clocked at 101 mph, but back then it was recorded as it crossed the plate--today in MLB it is recorded just after leaving the pitcher's hand. They recalculated the pitch Ryan threw using today's measure at 108.3 mph--and that was recorded during warm-up throws by Ryan just for the fun of it--during his career his catchers said he threw many harder pitches than that--some say up to 115mph--but they did not record each pitch then as they do now, so only the one pitch by him has a good measurement. There is a video about this fastball pitchers over time--history of the fastball in baseball. But Ryan was THE man--he threw his last no-hitter when he was 44 years old! Also, he came back to be honored by throwing the first pitch of the game at 63 years old and threw it at an estimated 85mph---and he clearly was not throwing it as hard as he could. Good documentary that came out this year (or last) about him called "Facing Nolan Ryan".
There is some station that has Shown a pro Cricket Player and a MLBaseball Meeting Up and teach/try translating talent into one another’s sport. It was Cool
The pitcher is always trying to deceive the hitter. Some use different arm slots, release points, hesitation, hide the ball with their leg, body or glove. They're trying to change the hitters eye level, disrupt their swing timing, throw high and inside toward their head to make the hitter uncomfortable.
6:50 Greg Harris. Did you notice that the pitcher was ambidextrous? He threw with one arm and then switched to his other arm for the next batter. He wore a special glove that could be switched from one hand to the other.
Some type of "six finger" glove
I used to love watching Jim Bunning pitch. He would all but fall down on his follow-through after he released the ball.
Gotta love the submarine pitching style
Y'all remember Elaine dancing on Seinfeld? That's Alex Wood pitching.
😂 👍🏻
It Does throw batters off their game... thats why people do it. Batters somewhat come to expect pitches to come from a certain place, or after a certain amount of time... if your unique pitching style changes that on them, it can mean the most minute problems...which is plenty in a game of inches like baseball.
Please react to retired MLB Pitcher Nolan Ryan's career highlights. He holds more records that any other MLB Pitcher ever.
The "wind up" as it is called, before the pitch can be very distracting and can conceal until the last minute from where the ball will be released making it harder for the batter to pick up the ball quickly--which of course is critical given that they have hundreths of a second or process the pitch and swing. You will see some of that here (Luis Tiant did this and released his pitches from multiple angles.
Louis Tiant (El Tiante) was a regular style pitcher at first, but injuries forced him to in essence become a junkballer.
Daz you definitely remember Orlando Hernandez, “El Duque.” He was on those Yankees teams with David Wells and Jeter.
Now you get the "flavor" of baseball..
A perfect game is No hits, No errors and No walks No baserunners at all. A no hitter is just No hits but includes either a walk an error or a strike 3 pass ball.
Pitching styles can mean a ton - as you commented on here, some guys with their motion can look a lot faster than they actually are (or vice versa). Some guys can really mess with the timing (as did Jonny Cueto) each pitch and keep the batter guessing when the ball will be thrown (as well as how fast and where). And lastly, some of the weird styles are done to hide the ball for as long as possible, so the batter isn't able to see it and react to it until its too late. It's a thing that can make or break players who can't simply just rely on speed or movement to do everything.
That dude was ambidextrous
I think that was what is sometimes is called an Ephus pitch at 7:20 (old time Washington vs Yankees). The batter did not hit a home run. He fouled it back.
A funky delivery can hide the ball better until the moment of release and completely mess up a batters timing.
Hideo Nomo has by far the coolest wind up.
It's harder in baseball than cricket to only follow the ball bc the pitcher is elevated. I grew up playing baseball and have played cricket. It's a lot different. In baseball, you have to decide if you are going to swing or not in cricket it's more where and what angle you're going to swing.
Yes you watch the ball. It may be distracting first time you see it but if you’re in mlb you adjust quickly and just watch the ball
Yes if they do it right they can hide the ball from the batter w their delivery. Making it impossible to see any spin. Batters look for spin out of a pitchers hand to tell if its an offspeed pitch. Hiding the ball from view w a weird leg kick or twisting your body can be the difference.
No Hitter Doc Ellis is something you need to see
The longer you can hide the release point of your pitcher, the harder it is for the batter to anticipate the trajectory. Most of batting is muscle memory too so if you come against a submarine style or side handed pitcher, when most pitchers are more conventional (especially during batting practice) it throws many batters off their game.
Many of the "weirder" styles were tantamount to a balk basically, which is why the MLB kinda clamped down on "out of left field" styles that were just bonkers looking. That one guy who basically skipped and stopped off the mound, that was totally a balk (and the announcers were basically saying as much). They won't call it a balk because by definition there has to be runners on base - but I mean, yeah.
Daz love Lawrence Taylor jersey. Remember joe theisman
ive seen a team loose a no hitter because of errors . cincinnati vs houston 1964
Aidan is spot on right 1:57. Hitting is about both Timing and Vision. These awkward deliveries can really throw off a hitter's timing. If a pitcher can make a batter wait even a split-second longer due to a weird wind up, that can be a real advantage for the pitcher.
No Fernando and his eyes rolling back in his head?
Some of these guys were probably taught by John Cleese at the Ministry of Silly Walks.
not having mike clevinger on here is crazy, guy looks like he has tourettes in his delivery
It's all about figuring out what works for you. Look up why it's almost near impossible to throw a 110 mph fastball.
Does Aidan know what constitutes a "balk"? Just curious, as it's useful information
You guys should really watch highlights of games - preferably 2022 postseason games - to get a better perspective of a whole game (in 10-15 minutes)
No Nestor Cortez is crazy!
Chad Bradford didn't make the video? Laaaame. 🤣
I don't think they realized that Greg Harris pitched both right and left handed.
They don’t realize a lot of things
I'm surprised Roy Oswalt wasn't on there.
Too bad they didn’t show Al hrbaski aka the mad Hungarian. Not sure if there are CZcams videos of him.
Those submarine pitchers would be awful to try and hit
I know it's natural to compare "pitching" in cricket to baseball...but there is no comparison. In baseball, the ball arrives in a FRACTION of a second. The batter has to make his decision in (literally) the blink of an eye. And when you think the 95 mph fastball is coming (because you DON'T know what's coming), you get the 85 mph curveball. And you have to decide which is which. Before you blink. That's why failing 3 out of 10 times (in baseball) could make you one of the best to ever play.
Sorry. 7 out of 10 times. I'm mathematically challenged. LOL!
cricket is bowled from a similar distance to a baseball pitch. A bowler will take a long run up to bowl. Let's say it is a fast bowler, he will bowl at around 95mph with a bounce in front of the batsman. The batsman will not know how that will bounce and have a split second to decide. It could seam left or right, turn, bounce high etc. very similar if you ask me. Not sure what you may think happens in cricket but there are many ways to bowl similar to the different pitches in baseball.
Yo Daz show him the Edwin Diaz entrance with Timmy Trumpet
I actually watched that again today 😂👍🏻
Just to be clear, a no-hitter is not the same as a perfect game. A no hitter means that no batter was able to gain an actual hit. However, a perfect game is a no-hitter where there are also no errors or walks (base on balls) that result in a batter ending up on base. No-hitters, while certainly a big deal are much more common than perfect games. There have been 320 no hitters in MLB history, 24 of which were perfect games.
Should've been 25 with Armando Galarraga.
The 1 you guys thought was a home 4un was actually just a foul ball?
The announcer said it was fouled back and you two said it was a fixed homerun?
no hitter is what is says...pitcher allowed no hits... best performance a pitcher can do is pitch a "perfect game" no hits, no walks...
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Is someone clicking a pen??
It’s probably Sophie editing a video. It’s someone using a mouse.
Can you please get rid of the Huston astros hat because they are cheaters