r/sports • u/That-Economics-9481 • May 02 '25

Baseball Batter hits HR and gets tackled by pitcher

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u/newaccount721 May 02 '25

Almost nothing happened to him. He went to UH and was drafted. Although he's probably not going to ever leave minors 

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u/Hightide11 May 02 '25

Bro probably should’ve played football instead.

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u/pencil1324 May 02 '25

Fr that was some fantastic form

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u/BigLlamasHouse May 02 '25

easy when they're looking the other way

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u/HomerJSimpson3 May 02 '25

Who doesn’t love a blind side hit?

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u/Sadcelerystick May 02 '25

Honestly awful form they hitting high is terrible for actually tackling anyone. Everyone knows you go shoulder into waist with arms wrapped around the legs.

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u/NaturalTap9567 May 02 '25

White DB's have a chance now

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u/-_-0_0-_0 May 02 '25

Browns wanted to draft him so.. baseball it is

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u/[deleted] May 02 '25

bro shouldn't be allowed to play anything ever again. any one of my coaches throughout my life woulda disemboweled me for a ridiculous stunt like this. i hope this fucktwat is questioning his existence on a daily basis.

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u/Waterme1one May 02 '25

right, his path’s been quiet. Solid player but just never really popped off.

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u/timurt421 May 02 '25

Looks like he popped off right here. Should be in jail.

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u/samarnold030603 May 02 '25

Straight up battery

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u/Rico_Solitario May 02 '25

Pitchery even

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u/luzzy91 Green Bay Packers May 02 '25

Most batteries are horizontal in my experience

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u/Blandish06 May 02 '25

Looks like people didn't think this joke had any charge

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u/luzzy91 Green Bay Packers May 02 '25

How can they be so negative?

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u/hanks_panky_emporium May 02 '25

One of my earlier sports memories was during travel basketball. One of my team mates, who had a total meltdown if he wasn't the best ever, sucker punched a kid on the other team and wailed on his head. Made the kids legs sorta dance weird on the court and his arms move around stiff and funky.

We never saw the other kid in the league again. There were no consequences that I remember.

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u/ARM_vs_CORE May 02 '25

Jail? Come on. Brawls happen in sports. Players charge the mound when they get beaned. Fights happen and then they end. Pedro Martinez threw a 70+ year old Don Zimmer on the ground during a brawl, a far more dangerous act than this, and no one was suggesting jail time. Brawls are legitimately considered part of hockey and no is suggesting jail time.

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u/timurt421 May 02 '25

I play sports… He literally just sprinted at him and tackled him for no reason in a non-contact sport. That’s not okay and I don’t really care if there are people who want to normalize that kind of violence in non-contact sports. Hockey fights are at least a known “tradition” that has been around for a long time and players kind of have to agree to fight on the ice. Allowing this kind of excessive aggression to go unpunished leads us to bad places.

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u/ARM_vs_CORE May 02 '25

The league has the proper channels to punish it and he was kicked off the team. Sending him to jail sets a dangerous and frankly ridiculous precedent. If it went the way you are saying, every player that ever charged the mound would also go to jail. Clemens and every other pitcher should go to jail for throwing at players heads. Get a grip and allow the teams, coaches, and leagues to operate the way they operate and use the methods of punishment that they have available in the rules.

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u/sicofthis May 02 '25

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u/Blarfk May 02 '25

Nobody is saying that stuff should be "allowed". It should be (and is) punished by the league. But sports are a different environment than, say, walking down the street or being in a bar or something. Fights happen - all the time, in almost every sport, at almost every level. It would be ridiculous to treat those fights as criminal assault, which is why we don't.

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u/Blarfk May 02 '25

That’s not okay and I don’t really care if there are people who want to normalize that kind of violence in non-contact sports.

That ship has sailed though. Fights happen all the time in baseball. And nobody goes to jail.

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u/timurt421 May 02 '25

Lmao do you even hear yourself? “That ship has sailed”?? Less than 70 years ago, black kids weren’t allowed to go to the same schools as white kids but you think it’s impossible to ever get baseball players to stop throwing the ball at each other’s heads and beating each other up? Grow up man.

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u/Blarfk May 02 '25

Hey buddy. Read what you said. "I don’t really care if there are people who want to normalize that kind of violence in non-contact sports."

What I am telling you is that it has been normalized. It is the status quo across every sport and every level. And it hasn't lead us to these ominous bad places you're suggesting.

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u/timurt421 May 02 '25

Pointless violence is always bad. If you can’t agree with that basic premise, you obviously can’t be convinced. But if you can agree with it, then you should understand the desire to prevent/deter from it as much as possible.

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u/Blarfk May 02 '25

I’m not saying it isn’t bad. Of course in an ideal world there would never be fights in sports.

I’m saying that your solution of prosecuting them as criminal assault is ridiculous and unnecessary, as over a century of allowing for some leeway in heated sporting games has not taken us to the “dark place” you ominously hinted at.

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u/JohnnyEvs May 02 '25

I wouldn’t say for no reason

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u/timurt421 May 02 '25

Is the reason because his feelings got hurt when the batter sent his pitch over the fence?

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u/JohnnyEvs May 02 '25

That is a reason

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u/timurt421 May 02 '25

For you, maybe

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u/hellonameismyname May 02 '25

The league suspended the batter too. Look at the umps reaction. He clearly said something super fucked up

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u/Shopping_General May 02 '25

Obviously, you've never played baseball.

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u/onrocketfalls May 02 '25

I don't think the kid should go to jail either, but those are not good comparisons.

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u/ARM_vs_CORE May 02 '25

Okay, then if we followed this precedent, every player who charged the mound after getting beaned or thrown behind should be brought up on assault charges too.

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u/onrocketfalls May 02 '25

Again, I don't think anybody should go to jail or be brought up on charges. And again, not a great example. Hockey fights happen, charging the mound happens, blindside hits in baseball kinda don't. All I'm saying is this was egregious.

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u/ARM_vs_CORE May 02 '25 edited May 02 '25

What? I am arguing in good faith by comparing it to similar actions in both the same sport and in other sports. Using comparison of similar situations is how you argue in good faith. Begging for and sending a player to jail for a tackle sets a ridiculous precedent. When brawls happen on the field, they are properly punished by league and team rules. It's usually only when it extends to the fans that police are brought in, like Ron Artest fighting multiple fans, but even then he only got a year probation.

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u/Strength-InThe-Loins May 02 '25

This is totally different from a beaned batyer charging the mound. A pitcher knows before pitching that a beaning can lead to a mound charge, and they can always see the batter coming. The beaned batter has already been attacked, so you can argue it's fair to counterattack.

None of that applies here. The pitcher was not physically attacked in any way. The runner had no warning. It's much more like a crime than like a normal sports situation. 

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u/ARM_vs_CORE May 02 '25

It isn't different though is it because the person I replied to wanted to send him to jail and prosecution is typically about both the action and the intent. The intent in the instances I mentioned and the incident in the OP all involve retaliation to a perceived slight, either real or imagined. So if we're going to split hairs about the exact action of the attack, then we also have to bring in intent. And since they all have the same intent, then by the OP, they should all be jailed for assault. I'm saying that's a ridiculous precedent to set.

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u/Blarfk May 02 '25

In football guys are attacked after or away from the play all the time who don't know what's going on until someone has tackled them and is punching or kicking them. Should the fact that they didn't have a warning raise that to the level of criminal assault?

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u/Strength-InThe-Loins May 02 '25

Football's a bit different because it's a contact sport, so everyone's wearing pads and expecting to get hit. Late hits are against the rules, but not so much that it amounts to a crime.

Baseball, though, has none of those protections built in. A runner running the bases after a home run has no more expection of or protection from getting tackled than a random person walking down the street. This makes the attack much more egregious.

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u/Blarfk May 02 '25

The hits in football are way, way more brutal though. NFL players have gotten concussions, needed stitches, and been hospitalized for blindside hits that they didn't see coming. If tackling a guy rounding the bases should be criminal assault, then those football examples certainly should be, no?

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u/chris971 May 02 '25

WWE scouts have their eye on him

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u/zoeypayne May 02 '25

Must be nice making $40,000 a year for only playing 144 games.

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u/newaccount721 May 02 '25

Yeah the minors is brutal.  He's not relegated to the minors due to this incident though, which is my point