Revisiting The Single Dumbest Play in MLB History

That looks like an office softball team I played on... I eventually lost my s*%t 🤣

I know baseball can occasionally make even the best players look foolish ( viz the 5th inning of the World Series) BUT... it always amazes me that these guys, who have been playing baseball since they were six years old, and were good enough players to induce people to provide them years of coaching, can so completely forget EVERYTHING. I guess if you play for the Pirates long enough....

Pittsburgh has perhaps the nicest stadium in the Majors, yet their teams are perpetually terrible.

Im glad there is no video of the dumbest thing I ever did.

love how casually the 2nd baseman misses that final catch too haha

Welcome to being a baseball parent of a 7 year old.

Yankees top of the 5th enters the chat

I actually once participated in a very similar play, in 1985, when I was 8 years old . . at summer camp.

the narrator doesn’t know how this works exactly either.

“Are you kidding me?”
“What did we just witness?”
“WTF was that?”

This was clearly the most idiotic baseball play ever witnessed. Yet it produced non-stop laughter for eternity.

What was that third play he mentioned

In a Class D baseball game about 75 years ago, I saw the winning run score from first base on a bunt because the batter-runner was in a rundown between first and home and no one was covering the plate.

Saw the Pirates in the screen cap for this vid; not remembering who the Cubs did this to, I had to tune into this to be sure it was Javier's fake pickle play. It was immediately the play I thought of based on the title and was fully prepped to argue if it was any other play. If there's a dumber play in baseball history, I've never seen it or heard about it.

"... en route to the most mind-numbing display of poor fundamentals we may have ever seen on a major league baseball field. Or, at least in recent history."
Yankees in game 5 of the World Series: "Hold my beer ..."

The guy making the video doesn't say how many outs there were at the start of the play. If there were fewer than 2 outs, then the runner scoring at the plate would have counted, no matter what, so the catcher would have been right in calling for the first baseman to toss the ball to him when he was standing near the plate. Commenters here note that there were two outs. That needed to be stated.

it's funny how all these dumb plays are committed by blacks and latinos

It's unfair to everyone else on the field to fault anyone but the first baseman. Just turn around and stroll back to first. No need to even sweat.

This could be the Yankees.

It looked like the base runner was out at home to me.

What's insane to me is that despite the runner crossing home, the first baseman at ANY point could have tagged biaz out and the run would not count because a tag out on a runner forced to advanced is still considered a force out nullifying any runs if it's the 3rd out.

Brain farts onncaught camera? could be a segment ? cant rule it out

Thems are me Buccos. LOL.

This AI voice makes it hard to watch.

Did the catcher signal for the ball because the runner on third was coming home? I thought that part of the play made more sense, but maybe I missed something.

It’s as if, once one person has a lapse and does something wildly unexpected, then everybody else’s lack of training for that scenario kicks in. 🤔

This is a great example of someone doing something so crazy (Baez running back toward home) that everyone else thinks they must be onto something, even though it's a total bluff.

So WHO won that game anyway? If the score wasn't close I'd have to say that it's not relevant.

Opinions vary, but you'd have to go a fair country distance to top Bill Lee throwing that eephus pitch to Tony Perez -- which he promptly hit into Charlestown -- in game seven of the 1975 World Series.

The narration is unintelligible.

Proves how Stupid is contagious

There should be a holiday for this play.

I watched this live as a Cub fan and about fell out of my chair.

Yep, we all saw this and you added nothing. No reason to have made this video.

I miss when the Cubs were fun to watch.

It's sad that the greatest players who ever played made so little compared to these fucking clowns today. No one in baseball today could compare to Mantle, Williams, Mays and a host of others.

When did this happen?

the thumbnail though. Clint Hurdle was not the manager of the Buccos when this happened, he was fired after the 2019 season. This was Derek Shelton's team in 2021. Will Craig never recovered from this play. They cut him a few weeks later. He went to Japan for a year before ... retiring I guess? He wasn't resigned by any team so not sure if he intended to retire or now. Last update is that he was a bench coach at his Alma Mater Wake Forest.

WillSON contreras. Not his brother William.

It should be against the rules to run back down the baseline like Baez did though.

Fascinating sequence!

Been there , done that... ( in little league baseball )

Also, the Rizzo run would not have counted at all if someone had still been at first. Just because Rizzo scored before it happened, the third out would have still negated the run.

Weird that you worded it that way because the run was not "netted" by the Cubs until Javy was safe at first. The entire thing could have been avoided if he just turned and went back to tag first. The entire play is on the first baseman for not just getting the force out and ending the inning.

Well, it was the dumbest paly until Gerrit Cole couldn't be bothered to cover 1st in WS Game 5

LMAO. I quit after Little League and our team wouldn't have done that.

I can't believe this didn't happen TO the Cubs.

It took a lot for the Clint Hurdle Pirates to out-stupid putting John Jaso in right field. The battlin' Bucs were up for it, tho!

Best line was from Cubs TV Analyst Jim DeShaies “Go! Run!You’re invisible!”

I lost braincells watching this play