Umpires never get credit for good calls. But, you know what? Well done umps for these calls! Pats on the back all around.

Charlie Morton really getting batters with the "Ol' Uncle Charlie". 😂

0:44 was just plain nasty

I hope all the people who complain about umpiring... would watch this video... a lot of these pitches are right on the black... great job umps!✌️😁

There was this guy, pitched for the Pirates I think,. Kent somebody..... Tekulve?... Blylevin?

@missesmew

4 ай бұрын

His side arm was wicked! Haven’t heard his name in years. He was deadly

Could you make a video on filthiest changeups, and include Shane McLanahan's disgusting circle change that drops 30+ inches and has tons of arm side run?

@brentdale5730

4 ай бұрын

No.

Great compilation of pitches! I played 3rd base in my later years during slow pitch softball and my first base players used to not like how much my throws danced around from my wrist involvement on my throws, that was just how I guided them in my mind. Wish I would have paid more attention to that when I was younger, it just didn't hit me till my late 20's to early 30's. I used to love watching people while we were warming up jump up when the ball would come in at waist level.🙂

0:29 "...and my goodness..." That's high praise.

There's something special about a curve ball with the perfect amount of movement. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

Great curveballs for sure but these breakers pale to the likes of Dwight Gooden , Don Sutton and Bert Blyleven. Those were “yackers”

I was getting pretty sick of seeing my Twins staring at strike 3 so often, but they did that a lot last season!

so many of those pitches were perfectly framed by the catchers!

@TheIcanMan706

4 ай бұрын

Yeah looking back after looking at the comments your right. Sharp eye.

I have a new appreciation for a well-placed curve ball. Thx

People overlook a good catcher's ability to frame a borderline pitch for a strike

@Avram42

4 ай бұрын

You did say 'people' and not 'fans' so I will give you a pass on this statement.

@butterthyme2241

4 ай бұрын

Totally agree with this, a lot of those pitches though are in no way shape or form strikes, umps are just blind.

@deew_knird_reeb_ekomS

4 ай бұрын

@@butterthyme2241Every single one of those pitches were strikes. It’s not the umps that are blind, it’s you.

@cjvs1604

4 ай бұрын

​@@butterthyme2241 Which means the catcher did his job. Spent a lot of my younger years behind the plate as both a catcher and umpire, and would often watch catchers gloves when looking for those borderline calls

@StevenSmith-zw1pd

3 ай бұрын

Agreed. Many of those pitches were far from filth-- but there was a lot of skillful framing going on.

Beauties to behold, but batters may never recover.

Best curve I've ever seen was Nolan Ryan playing with Kevin Mitchell in the 1989 All Star Game.

Justin Verlander’s curve was so filthy it wasn’t fair. A lot of batters would actually recoil away because they thought the pitch was going to hit them.

Excellent compilation

I knew as soon as this was a curveball compilation Charlie would be on here, his curve is a work of art when its 100%.

Devin Williams currently has the best change up. They even nicknamed it the Airbender!

I could watch Uncle Charlie throw backdoor Uncle Charlie's all damn day

I have a sweeping curve that once released, it has a constant speed but when it starts to break, it slows down like 10-15 mph and just turns

Honestly my favorite pitch to watch. Nothing freezes the best hitters in baseball quite like a well timed hook.

Us umpires love 3rd strike benders in the zone. We get to show off our call 3rd strike mechanics!

red soxs: not resigning chris sale or paxton Also red sox: sign giolito who is comming off of a bad season

Waino buckling Beltran to win the pennant is the one I always remember

@georgesouthwick7000

3 ай бұрын

Agree 100%.

Thank you. Favorite pitch. My Dodgers got Yoshinobu Yamamoto now and he's gonna be doing this a lot (I hope!)

Inside corner curveball - one of the most beautiful things in baseball.

No Kershaw!? He has one of the nastiest curves in all of baseball.

@wadexyz

4 ай бұрын

had

@T_K_O_

3 ай бұрын

none in 2023 to note

The fact that guys are regularly throwing pitches in the mid-80s, occasionally even high 80s, with this much movement is nuts. Kimbrel's knuckle curve at 88? Forget about it, I don't know how you even make contact on something like that.

I'd launch all these. - WW

The thing I actually learn watching this is how every MLB catcher now does exactly the same set of motions for setting the pitcher's target, hiding the glove on the ground, and then framing their catches with an upward movement while catching.

Where is Kershaw?

Just here to watch Charlie Morton about 50 times.

I am watching this a waiting to see a batter get absolutely jelly legged like Doc Gooden used to as a kid. His fastball/curve combo was so sick batters almost fell over regularly. Once again I must thank Kieth and the boys for introducing him and Straw to coke.

My favorite ones are where the pitch is delivered waaaayyyy to the outside and hooks back in to catch the strike zone. From the batter's point of view, how could they possibly expect the ball to come in?

I love the ones that are solidly in the zone and the batter has to stand there like he got ripped off in a lame attempt to reclaim his pride. Just tip you cap and tote your bat back like man!

there would be way more curve balls if there was an automated strike zone. human umps miss borderline strikes all the time.

It's a shame most ballparks have such awful camera angles. Shoutout to the Astros and Braves for giving us a good look at those pitches.

Helps when you can do the pitch overlay in sequence….. THEN this breaking stuff is just SICK

Koufax? Ok, a little while back but still?? The thing that makes a great curveball so effective is a 95 mph+ fastball and the fear of stepping into one. As a former high school "prospect" in the 60's hats off to these young athletes and much appreciation for their talent. Oh yeah, it helps if you have a really good catcher too. Thanks for sharing this post.

Sorry Ruben, but these arent all curves, some are sliders or "slurves". There are a few pitches on here that are clocked at 88mph, a true curve ball generally thrown at 70-83mph. And I agree with another reply that a few of these batters were not "frozen", they just laid off because they were balls and the ump made bad calls. Would have liked to see Kershaw on this video but props to you for including Verlander. Good idea for a video though.

While neat, many of those were not strikes, the catcher raised gloves back to strike zone after ball was caught below.

I’m a Red Sox fan but Taj Bradley had maybe the 2 filthiest curves in this video. Next rays stud - look out

I am so ready for Baseball!!

Baseball batters vs pitchers are #1 crybabies. Worst than NBA players vs refs.

AI > Human Umpires

I knew Sborz was gonna be in this video. His breaking pitchers all move a ton.

As a DBacks fan, it hurts that 3 of the first 5 clips were DBacks batters :(((

Not even Jobu could hit these!

We called those drop balls or sinkers,,curves break left or right.

Greg Olson and Barry Zito had putrid curveballs back in the day

Last one should have been a curveball outside all the way called strike three by Angel Hernandez. 😂❤

These are absolutely evil pitches.

good lord Schwarber

A lot of these look like slurves and maybe even some changes. But the weird camera angles at a lot of stadiums really throw off my pitch perception, so I can't say for sure on all of them.

@BBRuben

4 ай бұрын

According to statcast all of these were curveballs, slurves/slider is one of the coming compilations!

This is more a "what are the different called 3rd strike calls from umpires" video.

Gotta give it to those umps. Got most of those calls right on a lot of close pitches.

That's when you know ☕

Not one pitch from 'Uncle Charlie' himself, Adam Wainright?

Sorianos curve hurt my feelings😂

Damn.....I only got halfway through the video.....Poor batters.

Ain't really "freezing" batters when it's not a strike tho. That's a take and a bad call 😂. But man do I love a good breakingball!

It’s almost always with 2 outs 😂

Freeze the knees, baby. Freeze the knees. 🧊

man zack greinke had that exact lookin nasty curveball that shouldve been on this list against shohei, except, somehow shohei smashed it out of the ballpark

Best curveball in baseball wasn’t even mention-Framber Valdez

TANNER BANKS SIGHTING LFG

Not one Giants pitcher. BIAS MUCH????

4:20 wasn't even remotely a "curveball". That was a picture perfect slider.

You didn't include Dwight Gooden. In baseball slang, a curveball is known as "Uncle Charlie." Gooden's curve was known as "Lord Charles"

Guys goin down lookin. Gotta take a hack at some point. Backward K. Not good. Don't get caught staring.

Some of those "curveballs" were sliders.

Hentges got damn

The hitter has to guess at the pitch before it is even delivered so yes pitching is deception. If you are dead red looking for a fastball you will look like a fool. Same is true if you are looking for someone off speed. It is breaking balls that look like they are going to hit you that find the plate that there really is nothing a hitter can do about.

Disgusting. Absolutely disgusting.

Seams are too dull to see the rotation and optical flight of a baseball .

Nasty!

Any curveball video that puts in may over Kershaw doesn't follow baseball

@BBRuben

4 ай бұрын

Kershaw’s Curveball is one of my favorites but it never froze anyone to end the inning, which is the criteria for this video 💔

7-9 of these were awful calls. However Sborz is a dog

HAPPY 100TH COMMENT 🎉🎉🎉

@BBRuben

3 ай бұрын

This is awesome Omg

not sure 88 mph is a curveball : )

@BBRuben

4 ай бұрын

I figured for some but Statcast has them as curveballs lol

@wadexyz

4 ай бұрын

@@BBRuben yeah I know what you mean : ). Modern analytics and technology have only muddied the waters!

Its only disgusting,if you’re illiterate/the batter’s club owners.

Meh

Pitch framing has gotten so lazy 👎🏽

Ty Ruben ❤️

Alot of these aren’t even that good smh.. just bad hitters.. hit better smh

Those were not disgusting. Talk to the @pitchingninja

good lord Schwarber