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Baseball is a sport that you can watch for decades but there's always more to learn.

“A Quarterback in the MLB makes millions” …sure man why not 😂

11:50 An unassisted triple play is one of the rarest feats in baseball. Each team has 3 outs during their half of the inning, and this fielder recorded all three outs in one play with no one from his team helping him. It was also the final 3 outs of the game. First he caught the fly ball for the initial out. Then he stepped on second base, because the second base runner advanced before the ball was caught. Then he tagged the runner that was advancing from first to second base before that runner could retreat back to first base.

I always thought baseball was boring until I started learning the strategy.

And nobody is just standing around in major league baseball. Baseball players are incredible athletes.

Hitting a ball, pitched in the MLB, is the toughest thing to do, in all of sports.

1:23 Look up a player named John Kruk. He famously responded to a woman who recognized him in a restaurant where he was having a huge meal, a bunch of beers and a few cigarettes and told him she'd thought an athlete like him would be taking better care of himself. So he looks up, leans back in his seat, looks her straight in the eye and says, "I ain't an athlete, lady. I'm a baseball player."

Watching Europeans watch Baseball for the first time and seeing their reaction is so entertaining. Getting to see the game I grew up loving from another perspective is really interesting.

Ah yes, a foreigner reacting to baseball for the first time right before the season starts. Like clockwork, great for getting back in the mood for baseball!

Oh bless his heart. He thinks the rules to hockey are simple.

Wow this didn’t show Randy Johnson’s pitch that hit a bird

Here's what happened at the 12 minute mark:

If a ball is hit in the air the runner must wait until after the catch is made to advance.  So, in other words, they have to stay on the base.  In this particular play, the ball was hit right at the fielder, who catches it for the first out.  The runner who had been on second base wasn't expecting the ball to be caught, so he took off for third.  Unfortunately for him he was mistaken, and he was considered out as soon as the fielder stepped on second base.  Likewise, the runner on first base expected the ball to land on the ground, so he was tagged for the third and final out of the inning.

A quarterback in the MLB💀💀

Hitting a baseball is probably the hardest thing to do in all off sports.

A stolen base. The runner catches the defense napping. The ball has been pitched. The runner decides to run to the next base regardless of what the batter is able to accomplish. It's a risky play.

Baseball is a thinking man’s sport. There are a lot of nuances and “unwritten” rules. Also it is goofy because of the slow pace of play so you get pranks and other weird happenings. But then you get to playoff baseball and it’s some of the most intense shit you’ve seen. God I love baseball

I was in San Francisco when bonds broke the record. I mean he’s got an asterisk for the steroids but that was insane to be at that game.

Dude in right was Paul O’Neill. Notorious for losing his mind with anger. He got so mad he just wanted to kick the ball and it wound up being absolutely perfect lmao

To help simplify baseball, it's basically a series of one-on-one matchups between pitcher and hitter.  The pitcher's job is to get outs  through multiple different ways, such as him or his other teammates catching the ball in the air, throwing it to the base the hitter is running to, or just straight up throwing it past him. Meanwhile it's a hitters job to hit the ball as far as possible and run around the three bases and touch home again, at which point he scores a run.  After one side gets three outs, the hitter/offense and pitcher/defense switch sides, and after doing that 9 times, you've got a full game.  Of course its more complex than that, as pitchers will often vary speeds, locations and movements with their throws to mess with the hitters, fielders will position themselves where they think the ball will be hit, and so on.

Some more quick things:
- Each team has nine players active at a time, with them taking specific positions on the field during one half of the inning (three outfielders, four infielders, a pitcher and a catcher), while those nine players bat in a predetermined order in the other half - well, eight, since MLB allows teams to have a designated hitter whose only job is to hit (no fielding) in the pitcher's spot.
- Every field's dimensions are different in how much fair and foul ground they have, so it truly can affect the game just as much as the players themselves on the field.  Regardless, any ball hit outside of the field of play within the foul poles is a home run and everyone on base can run home along with the home run hitter, hence the name.  Other kinds of hits are named after how many bases a player takes (single means one, double means two, triple means three)
- Each pitch not hit into the field of play is either a ball or strike.  A strike is a pitch that based on its location is theorized as hittable, meaning even faraway balls that have foul contact are still strikes (though a foul ball can never be a third strike).  A ball is a pitch that the umpire determines is too far away/close/high/low to hit, and four of these lets the player automatically take a base, so that the hitter has a reasonable chance to get a hit.  
- A steal is when a player between pitches can try to take an extra base - of course, the difficulty being that unless it's well timed and the player is fast, it'll be extremely easy to spot and throw him out.  So it's a big risk that can pay off if you're good with timing and have elite speed as a runner.
- Baseball has the longest season of any major sport, with 162 games spanning between April and September.  The winner of each 5 team division, plus the next best three teams in each league face off in playoffs, wherein the winning team in each league face each other in the World Series, to determine a champion.  This all takes place in the month of October and is some of the most exciting sports anywhere in the world.

Mario Adrion,

The guy who kicked the ball was a player named Paul O'Neill & he was playing the position of Right Field.  He was frustrated that he could not field the ball with his hand, got frustrated, & kicked the ball back toward the area near first base.

It saved his team at the time, the Cincinnati Reds, from losing the game.  If he did not kick the ball, then the other team would have scored, & won the game immediately.

Instead, the Cincinnati Reds won the game in extra innings.

The balls of a soccer fan saying baseball is boring.