⚾ 🥎 Rivals Mike Farrell: I’d put the next pitch he sees in his ear hole"

[SoCalPatrick]

Agree or disagree?

 

[Rsedge72]

Yes!!!!!!!
I’ve coached travel ball (major, aaa), perfect game teams up to 14 year olds. My kids new if they pulled crap like that they’d be in the bench.
Had a kid pull similar crap against “us”.
I went nose to nose with his coach and yes my pitcher hit him next time up, not an ear hole, but lower back

 

[BamaFan334]

First baseman should have just dropped him right there and it'd been over. Just because of his cockiness, not the understood un-written rules of baseball.

I just think it's childish. While I want to win and dominate, I don't ever see a point in throwing it in someone's face like that, no matter the stakes. If they run their mouths, jab them a little. Go rah rah in the dugout when you round the bases and are off the field. Let the bomb speak for itself instead of trying to elicit a negative response from another person.

 

[mando]

Yep drill him but I am like BamaFan334 one of the infielders or the catcher should have gotten in his face well before the next at bat.

 

[Tidexc1]

I totally disagree. He is getting drilled every time up not just the next time up.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Two HBP. You hit the next guy up, take your warning, and use the second when he comes back up.

 

[Max]

I'll make a case for hitting the pitcher.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Two HBP. You hit the next guy up, take your warning, and use the second when he comes back up.

^^^^This was going to be my response.^^^^ You go with the Pedro Rule (or a slight variation of it).

 

[UAgrad93]

As an old HS coach, if he were on my team, that would be his last swing of that game and his ass would be on the bench! If I were in the opposing dugout, I’d go out and calmly tell my pitcher to make a statement with the first pitch to the next guy and NEVER allow a guy to show you up again. Respect the game!!
When I was in HS, I did this as a batter in practice off of my coach! He ear-holed me with the next pitch I saw. Calmly told me to never show up a pitcher and respect the game.
Later that season, guy hit a bomb off of me and he took his time before starting his HR trot. His next AB, I put an inside fastball in his ribs on the first pitch!!!

 

[It Takes Eleven]

^^^^This was going to be my response.^^^^ You go with the Pedro Rule (or a slight variation of it).

My HS baseball coach was a good college player, young when he coached us at Chelsea. Bobby Statum. He played at both Mississippi State and Montevallo. He worked us pretty hard for a baseball team, and me especially as catcher - wall sits in early season, plenty of "catcher's D" which meant him throwing me 55-foot curveballs. We had the edge of a college team, ran great pickoff plays, and we observed the unwritten rules. As a catcher, I was always in the middle of it. HS umps care about one thing: not getting hit with a pitch. More than once, I had an ump say, "you take care of me, I take care of you". Bases empty, I block a pitch in the dirt to keep it from catching the blue behind me, I'm golden.

At the start of an inning, we had an opposing player out of the on-deck circle, he had stepped forward and was timing my pitcher during warm-ups. It wasn't quite "hit the bull" from Bull Durham, but my guy put a fastball behind him. I told him the only safe place on the field during warm-ups was the on-deck circle. I look at the ump, and he shrugs, so he catches the next one. Their coach comes out raising hell, ump says "the only safe place during warm-ups is the on-deck circle".

RTR,

Tim

 

[UAgrad93]

My HS baseball coach was a good college player, young when he coached us at Chelsea. Bobby Statum. He played at both Mississippi State and Montevallo. He worked us pretty hard for a baseball team, and me especially as catcher - wall sits in early season, plenty of "catcher's D" which meant him throwing me 55-foot curveballs. We had the edge of a college team, ran great pickoff plays, and we observed the unwritten rules. As a catcher, I was always in the middle of it. HS umps care about one thing: not getting hit with a pitch. More than once, I had an ump say, "you take care of me, I take care of you". Bases empty, I block a pitch in the dirt to keep it from catching the blue behind me, I'm golden.

At the start of an inning, we had an opposing player out of the on-deck circle, he had stepped forward and was timing my pitcher during warm-ups. It wasn't quite "hit the bull" from Bull Durham, but my guy put a fastball behind him. I told him the only safe place on the field during warm-ups was the on-deck circle. I look at the ump, and he shrugs, so he catches the next one. Their coach comes out raising hell, ump says "the only safe place during warm-ups is the on-deck circle".

RTR,

Tim

Tim, I had the pleasure of coaching in the East-West Shrine baseball game with him a couple of years! Good man and excellent coach!!

 

[ElephantStomp]

If I was on the opposing team he’d get one in the ribs or back, but going for his head is stupid and classless

 

[Bamaclam]

Yep next pitch is in the kidney. Then once on first, numerous pick offs with very very firm swipe tags to the head and neck area.

A good first base man will tell him its coming on every pitch and then hold the tag for several seconds on each attempt grind the glove in there a little under the helmet. Let the guy know you hope you catch them all and nothing get under the glove.

But more than this bury one on the next batter up because nobody hates anything worse than taking the punishment for the jackass that plays in front of you.

I've seen dugouts self correct behavior after stuff like this.

 

[Bamaclam]

Actually a little surprised that the ump didn't toss the batter after carrying the bat all the way down the baseline.