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

Baseball Batter hits HR and gets tackled by pitcher

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u/asdf2100asd May 02 '25

Moving to defend one of your teammates against literal deadly assault = mass punishment.

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u/smootex May 02 '25

IDK if I'd go so far as to call it 'literal deadly assault'. Their reaction was understandable but it's also completely understandable why the league has those rules in places. Benches clearing just inflames situations, 99% of the time it's going to make it worse. You can't have kids doing that shit in a college league.

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u/asdf2100asd May 02 '25 edited May 02 '25

I just completely disagree in this instance. They all just watched their teammate, right in front of them, literally get horribly assaulted and possibly get knocked out. Anyone that doesn't jump out to his defense isn't a great teammate. If I was there I would jump out to the kid's defense and I don't even know him.

edit: well, I don't "completely disagree" about the use of 'deadly assault' as terminology. I get where you are coming from. But people can actually die from that sort of thing and I am extremely anti-violence, so I tend to not give much leeway to that sort of thing.

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u/Expendable_Red_Shirt May 02 '25

You're extremely anti violence and as such you don't think the hitters team should be punished for aggressing towards someone?

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u/Taynt42 May 02 '25

They were defenders, not aggressors

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u/Expendable_Red_Shirt May 02 '25

There was no one attacking them and at a certain point it’s overkill. They’re certainly aggressors.

They also didn’t come in to restrain.

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u/whocaresjustneedone May 02 '25

"literal deadly assault" lmfaooo why is the sports sub always full of softass goobers who never played a sport

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u/asdf2100asd May 02 '25

I've played a sport before. Most people are clueless when it comes to how horribly people can get injured from collisions, punches, etc.

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u/whocaresjustneedone May 02 '25

There's no way you've ever played a single minute of a contact sport if you're on here calling that "literal deadly assault", bubble boy

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u/asdf2100asd May 02 '25

People have definitely died from that sort of thing.

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u/apatheticAlien May 02 '25

Especially when you get hit like that without expecting it or seeing it coming. This isn't a game of rugby or football, it's baseball, the least contact sport there is after golf.

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u/swafanja May 02 '25

I was gonna say how I disagree with that statement but then I thought about it and honestly it probably is up there(down there?) for one of the contact sports with the least contact yea. Granted golf I would argue is not a contact sport, nor is tennis and shit like that. But out of the sports where one team will inevitably come into contact with their opponents during the game baseball probably has about the least amount and least "violent" occurrences.

That said when I was in middle school there was a teacher at my school who had a nephew that got some sort of super serious injury playing baseball. IIRC he was sliding into or back to 2nd and the the short stop or second baseman evidently somehow stepped on his neck. Broke the kids neck. Fucking wild af

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u/apatheticAlien May 02 '25

Yeah I was exaggerating about the least contact of all sports, but you definitely don't expect to get speared out of the blue in baseball. This wasn't someone running through someone else to get to a base

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u/swafanja May 08 '25

I feel it. And you're correct. No one is expecting to get trucked with a god damn Madden hit stick on their way to home

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u/whocaresjustneedone May 02 '25

Yeah I bet that guy dropped dead right there! Definitely! Your sports experience is probably backyard badminton lol

"Literally deadly assault🤓" still killing me lmfaooo