Even more than that, I'd say they were the mostest rarest plays.

Another excellent and rare play is The Catch by Willie Mays (1954 WS game 1)

This is why baseball is so much more exciting to watch than football. The plate and mound are 60 feet apart. A baseball traveling at 95 mph traverses that distance in 0.43 seconds. In that span of time the batter must pick up the ball as it leaves the pitcher's hand, predict where the ball will be when it reaches the plate and swing the bat, which is slightly smaller in diameter than the ball, and make contact. It is amazing that anyone ever gets wood on the ball.

0:47 Great play, but let's be real, the first baseman had two options with the line drive smoked at him. Option 1: make the play. Option 2: die of blunt force trauma from a baseball. Good for him for choosing option 1.

Here's one of the best defensive plays I've seen as a plate umpire. Was doing a Big League game many years ago. Runner on third, less than two outs. Fly ball to center field. I'd say it was a good 180 feet from the plate. CF catches the ball, runner tags and runs for the plate. The catcher literally put his catcher's mitt on the ground in front of the plate (3rd base side of the plate). The catcher didn't move his mitt except to close it. It literally went straight into the pocket without moving his mitt. I can still see the runners foot sliding in to the mitt. Beat him by an inch or so. Catcher closes the mitt, runner is out. For the next couple innings the runner would pace back and forth in the dugout saying he was safe. He should have been safe, except for a literally perfect throw.

More comments on proper English than comments on how much time it took to put all this together. GREAT JOB ! ❤ Love baseball highlights.

Half of these plays were a behind the back or a backhand throw from the Shortstop to second, then a throw to first for the double play.

13:51 that double play may be in the top five double plays ever

Its the smile by Pena that gets me every time on Swisher.

Imagine if mlb players hustled and ran through first base when they hit the ball

2:45 the infield fly should have been called there.

"Most rarest?" Most Important. Most Impressive. NEVER most rarest. Where did you go to school?

This great plays defense baseball man

i'm just a filthy casual, and my opinion is invalid (probably) but this video was a great watch. not too short, and not too long either. 10/10

Two of them were clear infield fly that was not called for some reason.

What a grab by catch on that hot shot to third.

Baseball has always been a Fun sport. No contact sport's are the most best.(Lol) ✌😁

Every one of your highlight videos is missing the SF Giants’ Kevin Mitchell over the head barehanded catch in Left Field. I don’t remember who they were playing but they were the visitors.

3:15 That was a cute take on the hidden ball trick.. Most rarest? Are they more better?.

I would like to see Major League Baseball change the rule on allowing an infielder to purposely not catch a ball under unsportsmanlike conduct. They have that for lots of other plays where the player is violating the spirit of the rule or the game.

1:32 Altuve's reaction at getting faked out 😆

Was the foul tip that bounced off the catchers mask not a foul ball? I need to back and look, wouldn’t be an out unless there were two strikes.

I apparently don't understand the infield fly rule.

3:13 that was one of the most embarrassing baserunning mistakes I have ever seen

Sorry for the criticism - There is no term "Most Rarest". Title would be better as: "Rarest Defensive Plays in Baseball".

“Most rarest”? Is that term clickbait?

Why were so many of these in the last video too

can someone explain to me the significance of the choices on the play at 5:44 ?

Most rarest? Are they more better?

the triple play

Anyone else think it's really dirty, even though it's in the rules, for an infielder to intentionally drop the ball or refuse to catch the ball, allowing him to double up the team at bat.

It appears that many of these players don't have a clue about "infield fly rule". If the umpire raises his fist on a batted ball, the batter is automatically out and the runners run at his own risk.

“Most rarest”? Look up “Double Superlative”

this is why they get the big bucks for sure!!!

I've been umpiringfor 35 years in high school, I don't pretend I am some Elite official, how was that not an infield fly rule, when the batter swung and checked his swing, which is not a bunt attempt, and the ball clearly took a vertical plane

How is 2:47 not the IFF rule? And again at 3:30. Terrible umpiring.

The one with Colorado at 4:46 was accidental🤣

The most amazing play I ever saw was Jeet gunning down the runner at the plate. What was he even doing on that side of the field?!

"Most rarest"?!

Does anyone else find it ridiculous to think that was an amazing defensive Play When a ball Ricochet is off of a player's back and then goes 20 ft in the air and all you have to do is take four steps and catch it

Why is 4:46 not an infield fly rule?

I'm watching these young men making these great plays, but I've never seen any of them doing a celebration like " nfl/ncaa players" do after just about every play.

That catch by Renfroe doesn’t even look right. You shouldn’t be able to catch a ball like that lol

"Most Rarest" ? Where's the editor ?

I don`t think the word "rarest" has any need to be qualified with the word "Most"

Shouldn't it be "most rarerest" defensive plays?

Sorry to do this but this drives me INSANE… It’s just ‘rarest’ not most rarest lol. If you HAVE to add, ‘most’ then you don’t put ‘rarest’… should look like this: ‘Rarest def. Plays’ Or ‘Most rare def plays’ (though this is pretty poor English… first is better..)

MOST rarest? Superlatives are self explanatory. Cheers....

John Lennon is correct. Use either Most Rare or Rarest but not both.

What's so rare about these plays.

There are thousands of great plays to choose from, so I'm guessing it's not easy to choose, and even worse, if you try to please everyone. Never gonna happen, that latter one. Had a few good Crawford one's, but he's a highlight reel too. Just wish there was more of Arenado. One didn't do him justice... Just like the damn Rockies- a team which, after the Helton era passed, sabotaged themselves over & over again. Watching them continuously dump World Series talent, not making the effort when the team is on the verge of winning it all, (or maybe just to baseball illiterate? Nah, they just didn't want to do it), they've just been a train wreck to watch the past 10 years. The needed was always the same; Closers. They didn't care, and it cost us. And it was disgustingly unfair to the players, who I personally watched giving their all for the club. Just like my other team, the Giants. Ripped for not being a "big ball" club, made fun of & ridiculed, they were a TEAM- and management CARED. They DID go out and shore up any tiny weak spots, and it showed. Time & again. World Series after World Series. The Rockies, did not. What I think really happened? There was probably some lowbie.. say one of the coaches or someone similar, maybe the janitor, (because most of us KNEW what was needed), who told them EXACTLY what was needed- and that just flamed the Owners hide. So that's EXACTLY what they DIDN'T get. Like bringing in San Diego manager Bud Black. Nice man. Terrible manager. Always has been. Boy did I go off on the Rockies Facebook page back in 2017, wrote to them, and had to slap-back the ignorant, who cheered his hiring, while they let go of the man who BUILT the Rockies into the contender they'd become. MAKE NO DAMN MISTAKE- They Rockies were on the verge of winning a World Series. It took this asinine move, to destroy what Walt Weiss had built. HE had the right formula, but it takes time to CREATE a WINNER. And boy did he. Remember in that movie "Major League", when that moron woman tried to do all she could to sabotage the Cleveland Indians? It was kinda like that- except, they stopped at NOTHING to make it happen here. And so they have. The Rockies are now the joke I told ALL they'd become. All the great talent has moved on to FAR better things, save a couple of very good men, who actually care about the FANS, and knew their time in baseball was nearing it's end. Good men. And then WOKE hit this moronic team, as well. I know this was coming, too. Stopped watching baseball all together, years ago. It's an AMERICAN GAME. Our great past time. And they've destroyed it. Every year, getting worse. They don't deserve our loyalty or support. Not until they find their "AMERICAN" again. So, for myself, I'm left with highlights from yesteryear, and appreciating great plays. But not from the past few years. Some are still good- but I don't know who many of these players are, nor if they are supporting this criminality destroying our sports, or not. So I enjoy just those plays, I DO know. Works for me. Because it has to. I love my country, above all else. What used to be the greatest nation on earth, UNITED, with ACTUAL love for their fellow man, and sports fans. There was no racism, save from the pathetic few- and they will ALWAYS exist. This criminal, evil media, just makes it SEEM there's some kind of systemic BS going on. There isn't. THEY help divide us, in order to destroy us, and bring in some insane "Utopian Empire", where they turn America, no, the whole world, into an EPSTEIN-type playground, for the extremely wealthy. I don't play that game. I play the AMERICAN game. Today, I spend my time trying to fight against this tyranny, and trying to find ways to get Americans to realize that this is OUR COUNTRY. That trash in Washington DC? WORKS FOR US. WE CONTROL THIS COUNTRY. THEY'RE trying to find ways to BRING IT DOWN, so that FREEDOM & LIBERTY are a thing of the past. How the hell would I KNOW this? I was recruited by this filth, to be a part of what they're doing, back in the late 70s, that's how. So I know exactly what's going on, and have been warning about it for over 40 years. None would listen. Now here we are. It will only get worse. They don't care about any of this- Sports, "POC", otherwise known as their idiocy, "people of color", the poor, the disabled, so-called "Climate Change"- NONE OF IT. They seek CONTROL & POWER. PERIOD. And they're winning. In fact, American is damn near dead now. I see it, clear as day. But they've gotten all of YOU, to buy back in to these "American Past-times", which help us to escape from the grind of life. And this? Blinds people to the TRUTH of what's being ripped from your grasp, without y'all really knowing or caring- because you're just glad it's baseball season again, or football, or whatever. They just need to keep it up for a bit long- Then? They'll finally have all the POWER & CONTROL needed, to enslave us all. And when that day comes, and it comes very, very quickly? That day y'all realize your liberty & freedom have been stripped from you, completely, while y'all allowed them to do so? It will be far, far too late, to ever get it back again. They learned from the past mistakes of evil, how to never again lose, as those before them did. Look around you today, REALLY LOOK. If you're honest with yourselves? You'll have NO F'ING CLUE, what nation it is, in which you now reside. And this, should terrify all of you into action- but it won't. Because they've worn us all down & out, with so much chaos, that all people wish to do, is escape. So on they march... ever forward. Urinating & craping on the graves of those, who gave everything they had, and would ever have, so that we could all live in liberty & freedom, for generations to come... .. While we all allowed them to do, exactly this. This may not seem like the time & place for such a rant? But I'm pretty much censored everywhere I could still fight. So I do what I must. Because I will NEVER stop, trying to STOP THEM. EVER. This is OUR country- not theirs. I WILL NEVER STOP- until I'm dead.

Stop using 'Most Rarest'! Grammar!

Most Rarest? Har, har, har.....

"Most Rarest" is poor English.

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There is no such thing as “most rarest”. There is either “rarest” or “most rare”.

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used to love baseball and was a hardcore fan for most of my 58 years until mlb went woke and let the sisters of perpetual what ever in. mlb is woke and DEAD just as is the nba and the nfl.

At 5:15 an umpire seems to penalise a 2nd baseman for "intentionally " not catching the ball, I imagine the 2nd baseman was going for a double play. HERE IS MY PROBLEM. I'm Australian and don't know enough about baseball, except I love watching the game. Is it illegal or smart baseball, playing a sequence that results in better outcome for your team or is the catch for only a single out more sportsman like or in accordance with the "spirit", of the game ? I personally think that allowing the ball to fall to the ground, or even be helped to the ground by the fielder, to achieve a "double", should be encouraged and certainly NEVER penalised. (I can hear you all telling me to "shut-up" and "stay away from our baseball") . I sincerely mean no disrespect. It's just Interesting. Thanks for the great channel. Bob. Australia.

Good vid!!!