Tag Archives: home plate
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Minor League Catcher Obliterates Base Runner During Collision At The Plate (Video)
Remember when San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey broke his leg and ended his season after a brutal home plate collision last year? Everyone was talking about how the MLB has to do something to protect the poor, vulnerable catchers from such plays, including Posey’s own manager, Bruce Bochy. On some level, the argument was [...]
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Check Out This Thrilling Play At The Plate To End A Kickball Game (Video)
Hipsters were the ones who started the whole “grownups playing kickball” fad. But it was the yupsters—young urban professional hipsters—who organized it and created a national tournament circuit with a $10,000 championship payout. So in other words, in case you hadn’t noticed, people take their kickball pretty seriously these days. Thus, when a national open [...]
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Braves Beat Pirates In 19 Innings Thanks To The Worst Call In Baseball History (Video)
Approximately six hours and thirty minutes after Tommy Hanson threw out the first pitch of last night’s game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Atlanta Braves, both teams found themselves tied at 3-3 as they headed into the bottom of the 19th inning. By that time most of the people inside Turner Field just wanted [...]
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Umpire John Hirschbeck Takes A Ball To The Groin (Video)
To every baseball fan who has ever wished the worst upon an umpire following a game-breaking blown call, the following video of umpire John Hirschbeck taking a ball to the groin during yesterday’s game between the Chicago Cubs and the Pittsburgh Pirates should help provide you with some closure. Hirschbeck remained on the ground for [...]
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This Is How You Avoid Being Tagged Out At Home Plate (Video)
If you ask me how to eliminate dangerous crashes at the plate in baseball, the easy answer is to make it illegal for catchers to block home plate, as well as making it illegal for runners to make contact with any part of the catcher, besides their glove. That is the simplest way to take [...]
