Pitcher hits Castellanos because the Phillies dominated him, a breakdown

Sep 11, 2024 2.0M views 12:14

MLB Philadelphia Phillies 2024

What Happened

In the bottom of the eighth inning of a 4-4 game, Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Nick Castellanos is hit by a pitch from the opposing pitcher. The situation quickly escalates, with players and coaches from both teams exchanging words and expressing their displeasure with the incident. Castellanos appears to have been struck intentionally, and the Phillies' dugout reacts with anger, arguing that such actions have no place in the game. The next batter, Phillies third baseman Alec Bohm, steps up to the plate with runners on second and third. The Rays bring in relief pitcher Edwin Uceta, who faces a key situation with the game tied. Uceta gets ahead in the count with a changeup and cutter, but on a 2-0 fastball, Bohm makes solid contact, driving the ball into right field to give the Phillies a 6-4 lead. The crowd erupts in celebration, and Bohm enthusiastically claps his hands as he rounds the bases. The next batter, Phillies outfielder Matt Vierling, also delivers a crucial hit, lacing a single to right field to score another run and extend the Phillies' lead to 7-4. Trey Turner, the Phillies' star shortstop, then steps up and crushes a towering home run, putting the game out of reach and capping off a dominant offensive display by the home team. Throughout the sequence, the broadcast team provides detailed analysis, highlighting the adjustments made by the Phillies hitters and the tells they were able to pick up on the opposing pitcher's deliveries. They dissect the subtle differences in the pitcher's mechanics and the way his glove flares up on certain pitches, which helped the Phillies batters recognize and capitalize on the changeup. The summary paints a vivid picture of the game-changing moment, capturing the intensity of the on-field confrontation, the clutch hitting by the Phillies' offense, and the strategic adjustments that allowed them to seize control of the game. The detailed descriptions of the individual at-bats and the underlying analysis provide a comprehensive understanding of the key plays that led to the Phillies' come-from-behind victory.

Pitcher winds, deals, delivers, drills him in the hip.

Yo, it's f***ed up.

Are you serious?

Hey, hey, we don't do that s***.

Are you f***ing serious?

Things got heated.

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4-4, bottom of the eighth inning.

Love Lady versus Stott, and this one is down the line.

Going to be a double no.

Goes over the base, so it's fair.

Hits the ump.

He's part of play.

Ricochets to the first baseman.

Out.

Ump feels bad about it.

Stott feels worse.

Fans feel worse.

Hey, what was that?

Come on, Blue.

Stott throws his helmet, so a bad start to the inning by the Phillies.

Really, that has nothing to do.

I just wanted to show you because you might have never seen that.

Pretty crazy.

All right, now we got a double down the line,

and now we have two in scoring position, second and third.

So the Rays take this pitcher out.

They bring Edwin Ucetta in.

He's been pretty good.

0-7-5 ERA in his little stint here.

First pitch is going to be a changeup.

Taken.

He's got a 44% swing and miss on the changeup.

Can't swing and miss if you don't swing.

That was a cutter on the outside.

Now 2-0 fastball.

Big swing.

2-0 fastball.

Big swing.

He's going to go back to the changeup here.

Batter doesn't really want it.

It falls in for a strike.

Now 2-2.

He goes back to the changeup.

Batter's all over it.

Throws it in the right field.

Cancels the tie game.

It's a two-run lead.

One-run scores.

Two-run score.

Crowd's going crazy.

He's going crazy.

He's clapping.

Clap.

F*** goes.

F*** go.

Now that at-bat was kind of interesting, and the announcers were all over it.

You know what?

Credit Stevenson.

He did get the changeup.

It was down, and he was all over it.

I don't know if he was sitting on that pitch.

I don't know.

I don't think he was sitting on that pitch.

That's what I think.

I think on the left, you're going to see the first changeup, and he's taking the whole

way and just tracking it.

And then you're going to see the fastball he gets, and he's swinging huge.

And then you're going to see the next changeup, and he's taking the whole way, but it falls

in for a strike.

Then with two strikes on him, I think he says, fine, I'll hit the changeup, and throws it

into the outfield.

Now the next batter, Stubbs, comes up, and he doesn't flinch at the changeup.

He doesn't flinch at the changeup either.

Doesn't swing.

Fastball, he swings at that.

Yep.

Fastball, doesn't swing at that.

It was at his head.

Come on, guys.

Two and one.

Fastball, ooh, doesn't chase.

It's outside.

He's going to get a cutter here, which is a version of a fastball.

He swings at that.

Now, 3-2 pitch, gets the fastball on the outside.

Was a little late to it.

Strikes out.

Not happy about it.

Two outs in the inning.

Still just a two-run game.

But up steps Kennedy, and he's got a runner in scoring position, and he wants to end the

game.

To add to the lead, he's going to get a first pitch cutter right down the middle.

Then he's going to get an up-and-in fastball, and he just fists that, fights it off, bloops

it into right field.

That's going to score a runner.

He rounds third.

He slides home.

He's in there.

Another run.

Yeah!

And we're shimmying.

Clapping, clapping.

Go, boy!

Yep.

Let's go!

They're excited.

Ponytail up!

Now, Trey Turner, he steps in, and he can really add to the lead.

First pitch fastball.

It's high in the zone.

He takes.

And then he's going to get a changeup here.

Not interested.

No.

Not even consider it.

2-0?

They're going to try and sneak a cut fastball by him.

Not a sinker.

Trey Turner says, no, you can't sneak that by me.

I'm going to slam that into the stands.

Home run.

Outing officially awful.

For this guy.

And he's, what is going on?

Trey Turner watched this one the whole way in, and he watched it the whole way out.

Enjoyed both sides.

Looks at the dugout.

Says, yep.

Foot down.

Barrel through.

Nice little, like, post-Homer freeze frame.

Looks at the dugout.

Yep.

These gals weren't watching.

But the ball gets sent into space.

If you were to show me this footage, I'd be like, is that space?

Is that baseball?

What is that?

It's a home run.

Trey Turner.

And officially, outing stinks for the pitcher now.

Just got absolutely blown up.

He knows it.

Tu maldita madre.

Yeah.

You motherfuckers.

What do you know?

Why aren't you swinging at any of my change-ups?

How are you crushing me?

I've been good.

Well, I think I figured it out.

I went and lined up all the footage.

I looked at it.

And what we have here is all the pitches in the first at-bat.

And I drew a red line straight through.

And I drew a red line straight through that button on his shirt.

And if you look at the pitches, you can see that the two sinkers in the middle,

he's well below that button.

But the two change-ups on the right, the glove flares up.

And the flare in and of itself is something batters will notice.

The change-up all the way on the left is a little lower, but it is flared up.

So that was the first at-bat where he ended up sitting on the change-up at the end.

The next at-bat to Stubbs looked like this.

And you can see, again, change-up, flared.

Then the two sinkers, lower than the button.

And the button is just a cue for me from this angle.

The batters are just noticing whatever they can notice.

The hands are lower.

They probably have a different vantage point.

Maybe the elbow is different.

Maybe where his forearm sits on his belt is different.

Maybe the daylight between the glove and his body is different.

But that thumb, that glove flaring up, that's a big one they look at.

So you got, it's just higher.

But that last sinker all the way on the right,

a little bit of a flare.

A fake-out.

That doesn't fall in line.

Maybe that's why Stubbs struck out on that one.

And then Trey Turner, look at this.

I mean, that first one is clearly a sinker.

It's not flared.

It's flat.

It's under the button.

The change-up is flared.

It's lifted.

And then the cutter looks more like a fastball.

And it is more like a fastball.

And Trey Turner got to see that.

So I think this is what they were looking at.

And that's what helped them.

And that's what hurt the pitcher.

Because that's how that works.

Now Bryce steps in.

And he's going to get...

He's going to get this pitch.

And, oh, dipped his glove down.

Fastball, but up and in.

And then the 1-0.

Change-up.

And Bryce goes hunting for it.

Now I'm not sure if Bryce isn't looking at this stuff.

I think he's just hunting change-up this whole at-bat.

Because it was there for him to look at.

I mean, look at that.

I mean, on the right, the glove's higher.

It was a change-up.

On the left, the glove's lower.

It was a fastball.

It was there if he wanted to.

But Bryce seemed to be hunting change-up.

Because he gets this fastball.

Fastball here on the 1-1 pitch.

And he's pretty behind that.

And he's going to take time, Blue.

He's going to take a walk.

Not feeling...

Look at the side view of this.

That ball's by him by the time that barrel gets in front of him.

So I think he might be hunting change-up.

And then I think he does some adjustments.

That's his foot when he steps back into the box after calling time,

collecting himself.

Now where his foot was the pitch before was there.

Farther away from home.

Home plate.

And I'm going to layer the pitch before that.

And again, it matches up back.

So he's stepping closer to home plate with two strikes.

And now from this angle, here's two pitches ago.

And there's one pitch ago.

And now here is the two-strike he steps in.

And he's a whole foot closer.

So he's closer to the pitcher.

And he's closer to home plate.

And that's going to allow him to get to that change-up

before it really falls off below the hitting zone.

I think that's the adjustment.

That's the adjustment Harper made there.

I think he's hunting change-up.

He's going to get it.

And he lets it come to him.

And then floats it down the line.

Lovefielder can't come up with it.

Good effort?

Bad effort?

I don't know.

Harper strolls into second base.

Throws up two fingers.

That's two.

Yep.

That's two.

Nice swing.

Hand stayed back.

Hand stayed there.

Gets the barrel to the ball.

I think he knew what was coming.

And he wanted to hit it.

So now the pitcher's pretty pissed off.

Castellano steps into the box.

In his post-game interview,

he said,

when I stepped in,

I just had a feeling he was going to hit me.

Because we just ruined his whole season ERA and first pitch.

Yup.

Hey, bro.

That's f***ed up.

I get you're mad.

I get you're f***ing mad.

I don't give a f***.

And you're mad at me because he f***ing swung?

That's bullshit.

Hey, that's f***ing bullshit.

Yeah.

And he was just looking at him the whole time.

He didn't say anything.

In fact, just looking at him.

Meanwhile, Harper's behind him, yelling at him.

Hey, mother f***er.

Are you serious?

Hey.

We don't do that shit.

Hey.

We don't do that shit.

Are you f***ing serious?

We don't do that shit.

Nope.

And then his teammates bump into him.

Harper had a chance.

He was there and no one was breaking him up.

In his post-game, he said he didn't want to be a loser.

He said there's a better word he wanted to say,

but he went with loser and like attack a guy from behind

or fight a guy from behind.

I don't know.

So he just wanted to yell at him.

You can't really go fight him anyway.

If your whole message is we don't do that shit,

we don't want to get people hurt.

So I don't think Harper needs to apologize

for not blindsiding a guy or act like,

I don't think it's a loser move to not blindside a guy.

So what I'm saying, I guess, I think that's fair and fine.

All right.

We continue.

We don't play that f***ing game.

You understand me?

Yes.

Maybe he does.

Maybe he doesn't.

There's a lot of noise, Bryce.

He might not have heard you that clearly.

Bryce pushes everyone away.

Get off me.

Oh, meanwhile, Mr. Goodhair wearing a hat,

wearing a helmet all day.

Hair doesn't care.

Damn.

Pretty good.

Matt.

Maddie.

What are you doing?

You can't be running out dressed like that.

That's a stay in the clubhouse outfit.

Guys say, where were you?

Say, well, look at me.

I didn't want to run out like this.

I mean, come on.

I'm just get together.

And they're like,

we got to toss this guy.

Probably did that on purpose.

Yeah.

This is every sinker he's thrown to a righty this season.

There seems to be one outlier.

He doesn't really hit guys.

He doesn't really walk guys.

So, yeah.

He's a f***ing whiny bitch.

Now, that could be it's a f***ing wild pitch,

but I think it's he's a whiny bitch.

So, he's out of here, too.

He's got to go.

He's out.

Just walks off.

Takes his ejection in stride.

Says, hey, coach, you need the ball?

I don't have it.

Oh, he's got the ball.

Yeah, I don't have the ball.

And then these guys just standing on first base,

just chit-chatting, having fun.

First base coach messing around.

What if we were to just sprint and tackle him?

Who?

Me.

And then zoom.

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