Umpire gets drilled during eventful at bat, a breakdown
What Happened
In the bottom of the fourth inning of a 4-0 game, New York Yankees outfielder Joey Gallo steps into the batter's box to face San Diego Padres pitcher Yu Darvish. As Darvish goes through his sign sequence with the runner on second base, Gallo rips a 113 mph line drive foul ball that narrowly misses a fan in the stands, causing the spectators to duck for cover. The at-bat continues with Darvish throwing a curveball that Gallo doesn't swing at, leading to some disagreement between the two players about the pitch location. The next pitch, a fastball, hits the home plate umpire, causing a brief delay as the umpire recovers. Padres manager Bob Melvin checks on the umpire, who indicates he is okay to continue. As the at-bat resumes, Gallo and Darvish engage in a back-and-forth, with Gallo voicing his displeasure about a called strike. Darvish then throws a slider that Gallo fouls off hard into the dugout. The broadcast teams seem to disagree on the exact pitch sequence, with some discrepancies in the number of pitches thrown. In the end, Darvish gets Gallo to strike out swinging on a slider on the outside corner. Gallo argues the call, but the umpire stands by his decision, and the two players exchange some friendly banter, acknowledging the eventful at-bat they just experienced. The sequence featured several notable moments, including a high-velocity foul ball, an umpire getting struck, sign-stealing attempts by the Padres' third baseman Manny Machado, and a back-and-forth between the pitcher and batter. Despite the drama, the umpire and players maintain their composure, and the at-bat concludes with Darvish emerging victorious over Gallo.
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Click timestamps to jump to that momentjoey gallo had an at-bat versus you
darvish where just a lot of weird stuff
happened all in one at bat it's four
nothing in the bottom of the fourth two
outs runner on second this one's brought
to you by draftkings gallows ready
catcher's ready he's going through the
sequence of signs because there's a
runner on second
and they're not using pitch com fastball
upstairs 1-0 is the count that's the
first pitch 95 miles per hour now
they're going through the sequence again
two two one two three four wiggle wiggle
yes that's what i want to throw i
believe this one's a cut fastball that
gets slammed 113 miles per hour into the
crowd and did you see the evasive dodge
by the person on look at this the chairs
up they're over it would have hit him
boom chairs up there over it was coming
right for him then it hits the railing
but this guy would have saved it with
his tray
and then this guy kershaw he grabs it
and the guy in the seat above him made
the laziest attempt to get a ball ever
uh oh i guess it's not coming towards me
so now the catcher's saying two
this is one okay yeah two the second
sequence yes the second sequence of sign
me flashes the twos there
three four two one seven eight what's
the pitch gonna be it's a one one count
curveball drops it on the outside gallo
doesn't like it
could have hit it like that
is that what he's saying he says ah i
don't know about that could have just a
boop could have hit it
those red gloves
nice two pitches back to back and now
darvish is looking in needs to get the
sign again
one two gonna strike him out let's see
okay no idea no idea it's blurry there's
a lot of things going on the one two
pitch
fastball they cross him up he hits the
ump oh my god look at the reaction of
this woman just a quick frown hmm
shad
this guy he didn't get to see it at all
because he was helping put her necklace
on so he just missed the ump get hurt
and this girl she misses her mouth with
popcorn which in turn makes her miss the
ump and then she doesn't care she wants
to look at something else slow miss
missed it didn't see
no interest umpire gets hurt right in
the tattoo you darvish comes up says i'm
so sorry and he says okay it's okay it
happens we're just playing baseball
it's all good and the umpire he's an
attorney say yeah foul ball
foul ball and i don't think it was a
foul ball
i mean we can look at it maybe you heard
something but that i don't know
i don't know if there was a noise maybe
it doesn't look like a foul ball looks
like a ball gallow got helped he says
okay i thought we were on two that's why
he crossed you up now gallo says you
okay and he says hey i'm good we're
friends we're not gonna be fighting
later in this at bat one and two is the
count the next pitch
that was like a cutter away
ball
so now the catcher's thinking hmm what
should we throw now one two three three
double three is that a slider
maybe it can't be that simple can it one
two three slider
now i really don't know if it's that
simple but the next pitch one two two oh
is it that simple
it really it can't be that simple but
curveball so maybe it is that simple he
doesn't like it he's upset and now
turner's on second he's like is it that
simple is that what it is just the
doubles and machado's gonna say yo you
change the signs
change the signs he says oh
yeah my bad
i'll change the signs the three two the
payoff pitch slider in the zone rocketed
foul into the dugout now this is when i
got really confused making this
breakdown
both broadcast completely added two
pitches
to the sequence so look this is the
padres on the right and the dodgers on
the left they're broadcast you got
fastball shore 87 mile per hour cutter
yup 72 mile per hour curveball yes four
seam fastball that hits the umpire
yes and then
they added two cutters now i don't know
maybe darvish took warm-up pitches when
the umpire got hurt but i watched it and
they didn't show him take any warm-ups
or didn't look like he had time but both
broadcasts
had this
as an 11 pitch at bat
but it wasn't they just added in these
cutters because then you're going to go
here this is the 89 mile per hour
splitter and then the slider
and then the curve
and then the slider that gets rocketed
into the dugout so here you go baseball
savant has it right and this is cool you
can see the break on things you can see
that he went
everything's breaking down because
nothing breaks up because that's blitz
ball or wiffle ball and then this one
breaks left to the right to the right to
the left to the left to the right to the
right to the right
slider curveball slider splitter not a
lot of fastballs at the end here so
what's he going to throw
the next 3-2 pitch
and it is
the slider on the outside wraps around
gallo says hundred percent that's off
yes
that's off
you know that's off
come on he's mad at him he's upset
umpire's like i thought we were buddies
remember you apologized you got hurt he
says all right i heard you now walk away
guys oh [ __ ] hey
and basically the pitching strategy here
was
gallo didn't swing at anything on the
outside
now three of them were so far outside
but maybe they trained his eye to not
swing outside and then the two called
strikes were right there on the edge he
swung at everything inside this one was
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draftkings what are weird at bat what a
weird at-bat you had
two like 110 mile per hour foul balls
you had an umpire get hurt you had the
sign sequence come into play you had a
third baseman yelling at the pitcher
change your signs
and
you had a little disagreement about
strike three
and maybe something else oh the
broadcast both broadcast just
added cutters
he threw two cutters no he didn't wrong
a lot of stuff going on