Forget This Pitch! Week 3

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Apr 24, 2022
Seattle Mariners
JP Crawford, Seattle Mariners.

Adding Some Jazz

This may be one of the most bizarre sequences in all of baseball. See the video below. Jazz Chisholm Jr is up to bat against Aaron Brooks. Brooks gets a high fastball for strike one. Chisholm doesn’t like the call so he steps out of the box and exchanges words with the home plate umpire. The umpire then tells Chisolm to get in the box. Chisholm doesn’t so the umpire claps and tells Brooks he can throw. St. Louis catcher motions Brooks to pitch with Chisholm stepping into the box. 

Eventually, the St. Louis catcher calls time after Brooks didn’t take advantage of a golden opportunity. So, after the time out the St. Louis catcher calls for Brooks’ slider or changeup knee-high and just off the inside part of the plate on Chisholm. Instead, the slider or changeup ends up knee-high and over the middle of the plate. The home plate umpire, Brooks, and St. Louis catcher all look disappointed in the end result.

Just a little Poke (JP)

We started with the Seattle Mariners so we’ll end with them. J.P. Crawford is not known for his home run power. In his first at-bat against Texas’ Taylor Hearn, Crawford wins. Texas’ catcher wants the pitch knee-high and away. Hearn is already in a pitcher’s count, 0-1, and is looking to really get ahead. On Hearn’s 16th pitch he delivers an 84 mph slider dead middle of the plate. Crawford takes full advantage of this mistake and crushes it into the right-field seats. He adds a beautiful bat flip and I’m pretty sure the phrase #ForgetThisPitch.

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