Bless The Hearts Of These Catchers In Korea Trying To Frame Pitches That Bounce In The Dirt
This is fucking great. They’re dead serious, too. They have to be, right? There’s a lot of dicking around in baseball that we see almost on a nightly basis in the MLB, but there’s no way that these catchers in Korea aren’t legitimately trying to pull a fast one on the home plate umpire. Half of them are looking back at the ump like, “Hello? What’s the call, blue? Looked like it caught the corner to me.”
I love how they’re so smooth about it, too. Everyone in the ballpark knows that this ball one-hopped its way into the left-handed hitter’s batters box, but he’s gonna grab that thing, pull it in towards the strike zone and he’s not gonna budge from that frame job until the umpire confirms that it is, in fact, a ball.
This next one here is the definition of shooter’s shoot. Not that any of these had a chance of actually being called a strike, but this one definitely had the furthest chance of getting called a strike. HOWEVER, if you watch the batter, for a split second there, he absolutely confused the fuck out of him. Like, for a moment there, that batter was like, wait a second. Was that actually a strike? Mind games. Advantage: Catcher.
Then, this one. The two-hopper. Bless his heart for trying. You could tell how sad the catcher was that he couldn’t get this one called for a strike. You can’t even see his face, but you know that it’s covered in disappointment. Very sad.
By the way, if Eric Thames never came back to the MLB to do what he’s doing right now, everyone would look at this video and be like, no wonder he’s hitting 40+ bombs over there in Korea every year. Look at what he’s going up against. Love the heart of these catchers, though. Need to see more of it in pro sports.