Florida High School Pitcher Takes Down Runner Heading Home Without Having Ball

good lord, the pitcher was chasing the ball. He didn't realize he was about to blow up the runner until just before contact.

Yea, the pitcher was jogging, the runner was flying. Poor pitcher took a vicious hit. LMFAO!!! Vicious hit?!?! I can't even write that without laughing!!! Usually the term vicious hit is reserved for football plays. But, I suppose for a baseball play, yea, that runner was flying when he nailed the pitcher who was barley jogging by the time they collided.

Amen!!! These idiots just want to make a villain out of a kid. I doubt a single one of these people who are calling that kid a thug or something else have even played a sport in their life. But, yea, watch the pitchers eye's, he is looking at the ball up until the last 10th of a second when he looks at the runner. And, the runner could have avoided the collision, but because the uploader already villainized the pitcher, all these morons just jump on the bandwagon.

Oh look. Another idiot. Why would he go directly to the rhnner. He would have went towards home plate. He also loads up to hit him. Coward play

When I was a pitcher as a kid, my job would have been to cover home plate.

Do they do things differently now where pitchers run after wild pitchers instead of going to home plate to cover it? Who covers home plate? The 1st baseman? Only time I've ever seen a pitcher need to make that run/angle is if they are running into the dugout.

He got ejected, in Tampa, he will get an actual fine. It's either $50 or $100.

uh, the pitcher was going after the ball, which has bounced far up the third base line.