Jul 20, 2012
Why tag a baserunner out when you can completely deck him?
18-year-old, minor-league, fittingly-named catcher Stryker Trahan goes above and beyond the call of duty as he tags a runner out at home plate…
(via Baseball Nation)
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Obviously you have no knowledge of baseball. This is a typical play at home plate, although I have no idea why the runner went for home when the ball obviously was going to beat him by a mile. Anyway, the runner has a right to, and did try to knock the ball out of catchers glove. Likewise, the catcher needs to defend himself in that case, and he did.
Yep, totally clean.
Agreed, runner should have tried to slide. Every league I’ve ever umped in had a “must slide” rule when there was a play at the plate exactly to avoid something like this. Both players could have been hurt. Runner did an idiot thing, catcher did his job. Ump made the right call.
Raj: no knowledge of baseball? 1.)reasons for running for home are a.)force play (runners behind you have no where to go) b.)as a runner, looking for the balls present location almost always slows the runner enough to get him out. No intelligent runner watches the ball after he commits.
2.)Baseball is NOT a full contact sport. Runners do NOT have a right to ‘batter’ the catcher. I have been an umpire and was a catcher on a championship team. Yes, it happens. Most leagues that I have experience with have rules against this behavior and will eject the baserunner from the game and warn both teams not to repeat it.
3.)Its a game. Catchers do NOT have a right to “defend himself”. Anyone in the baserunner’s path can be avoided or ‘bumped into’, but to intend to cause them to drop the ball by running into them is a grey area. If you drop the ball, you dropped the ball and the runner is safe. If you don’t drop the ball, it is unsportsmanlike behavior.
Absolutely textbook play by the catcher. The collision was caused by the runner – if the catcher had avoided the contact, he probably would have missed the tag and the runner scores.
Raj explains it better than I can.
Agreed. Stupid runner…
This is standard fare. And the catcher mostly just braced for impact, expecting to be run over by the base runner, who does, after all, have momentum on his side.
Catcher shows a remarkable ability to apply torque and moment principles to an otherwise momentum and force problem. Bravo.
Looks like Gui has a brain. Too bad the same can’t be said for all the rest of you. That type of behavior is stupid and irresponsible, and should never be done in any sport. I’m surprised more people haven’t commented to stand up for the base runner who most likely got hurt really badly from this catchers’ actions.