The Unwritten Rules of Baseball - EXPLAINED! (Fighting, Drilling, Brawling, Retaliation & more)

But people say the NBA is too soft

the unwritten rules are out of date, at least most of them, especially the ones stating if you are what i was told 6 runs up, don't steal, bunt, swing 3-0. Nullshit i have seen too many comebacks from score differences much more than six. I will not slow down nor will my team.

I am glad all of this is slowly starting to change

Don't try and win if you're losing has got to be the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard

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Jesus Christ MLB, no wonder people care less about your sport. Chess boxing has more freedom than Baseball.

It's offensive interference and the runner is out if he impedes a fielder during an attempt to field or play a ball before it has been touched - and that applies to A.Rod's case - he would've been called out had an umpire heard it and determined he had said it to cause the drop. It's a written rule in 5.09 OBR.

With all these weird ass ‘unwritten rules’ that are just made out of pity and so that the opposing team can go home. Can there be an unwritten rule that states you can bat from your living room couch and have them call you to see if it was a strike or ball?

I strongly disagree with 90% of this video. The few things I know as an actual unwritten rule of baseball are:

- If your opponent has hit your teammate with a pitch, and you feel it's undue, you give it back. Sometimes the ump throw's you out, sometimes they don't. It's an unwritten rule that if they come after you you come back at them, it's within reason.
- You don't try and run up the score intentionaly, espescially if you're ahead. Sportsmanship.
- Everyone plays the game per the rulebook. We all know when you're playing dirty. Taking a deep dive into second base on a double play to break up my play is within the rules, but we can all see when you're trying to injure someone. A thin line between playing and fighting.
- And if and when it comes down to a brawl, all bets are off. If one team feels the other team is breaking the unwritten rules, the bench comes out to fight.
- The ump is the champ. On our side but against us at the same time.
- and above all, it's just a game

This video overly exaggeates how baseball works. The first few points are the only "unwritten rules". The rest are all fluff. I suspect OP has never actually played baseball, or at least not at a competitive level.

If you get hit by a pitch, clock the catcher with the bat. I see no difference. Unwritten rules are stupid and baseball is worse for them.

Rule 7 is nuts

Amazing video, but baseball players seem like the weakest people on the planet lol. I don’t care if you’re having a bad game, you being happy doesn’t win me games and pay my bills bro, I’m gonna crush you with all that I got and it’s up to you to stop me

So, baseball is about being mercifull with the ones who can't win by their own effort, like the players from a team down by 10 runs, or the kid who lost the souvenir ball to a better prepared person :D That brings me some questions:

-What is the largest run difference in a MLB game?
-The same question as before, but with one team scoring 0 runs.
-Do great comebacks in a single game exist in that sport? Mainly, at middle season.
-What does the kid who catches a souvenir ball, making a great effort, think about the other kid whose ball was a mere gift? Why to make an effort anyway?
-Why did no one hit those ladies who took the ball away from the kids? (Mercy!)
-Why am I being such a douchebag? (I'm a soccer fan, and yes, our sport sucks, but at least we don't hesitate at humilliating other teams).

And I don't believe in gentlemanliness in this sport, with all those players finding and using loopholes with the new rules.

Unwritten rules are made to be broken.

Watching Bautista get clocked makes me smile every time I see it.

You can’t walk on the white foul line when walking on or leaving the field. That’s bad luck

what's a bunt?

I didn’t know the unwritten rule of giving a baseball to the nearest kid. Although I’ve been to many games I never got a baseball mostly because I like to sit in the home run area and hopefully catch a homer. I will give it to the nearest kid if I ever get one. Great video. 👍

Some of them are silly (hitting their batter when yours was, for sure, accidentally hit [although I don't think this is a hard and fast rule], but they all exist for a reason and the majority of players agree with them. Don't tell them how to run their "office". Just sit on your couch and watch the game.

The idea that hurling a giant object with the consistency of a rock at a high speed is in any way, shape or form a valid response to a breach of etiquette is absolutely astounding.

Bunting during a no-no is fine. You are trying to win the game. If a bunt is going to lead to a run you bunt.

This is so funny If you dont like somebody hitting a home run when they are up by 10 runs learn to pitch better

lol ppl compare this circus with cricket 😂

Great video....stupid rules

The missing unwritten rule of baseball is that if the pitcher drills the batter, the batter gets to beat the pitcher to death with the bat

I admit I just clicked the video because I'm a Rangers fan, and love the image of Odor absolutely murking Bautista.

Literally all of these are stupid

You can’t in the same segment say it’s not OK to hit a batter accidentally or on purpose when you previously said that if you break one of the unwritten rules expect to get thrown at

Long story short... Pitchers are huge babies who cry if you hurt their feelings and the rest of the team is expected to enable this behaviour throughout the game and season.

Don't fuck with the pitcher if he's on a no hitter and don't fuck with your own teammates are the only reasonable ones on the list

Another unwritten rule: Don’t actually try to win ball games, because winning makes the other team feel bad so just beat to put in minimal effort because putting in full effort is taken as disrespectful

Baseball is lame and boring and full of cry babies

I don't think hitting someone with the pitch by accident is a no-no, but not owning up to it is. I also think that if a fielder makes an amazing play to rob you of a hit or a home run, you should acknowledge them. They are out there playing hard the same as you. Finally, there will be a winner and a loser, but players should take either outcome with grace.

Baseball is the optimal sport to play if you have a fragile ego

athletecs are fragiles divas, overpaided and cry about everything...they are paying for play the bless game....grown up mens....stpds "rules"

I wish pitchers celebrating a strikeout to the rules.

I watch but some pitchers hit on more one or more times. And they should just let the pitcher and batter battle it not the whole

There’s always a chance to make a comeback in baseball…it’s not like hockey where you can play keep away.

Most of these unwritten rules boil down to "pitchers are crybabies"

Why is a guy with a British accent talking about baseball?

A lot of the superstitions that baseball players have are due to lack of education. A much smaller proportion of pro baseball players go to college compared with other team sports. Less educated people--even when they become wealthy--tend to feel less in control of their own lives and futures and thus are more prone to believing in illogical superstitions and jinkses.

Nonsense about running up the score. There have been plenty of examples where a team sat on a huge lead, and the other team rallied and came back to win the game. Screw that. When your team is batting the objective is to get on base and score runs. When you are in the field your job is to play defense. You don't want the other team to run up the score? Pitch better and play better defense.

I can summarize all of baseballs Unwritten rules in one lump statement..." don't hurt the other teams feelings"

Bat flipping rules

“lol” - hockey. Probably

This is all bullshit

In a game where the losing team can come back in the bottom of the 9th with 2 outs and win the game by one run, there is no such thing as scoring too many runs. Keep your foot on the gas.
Don’t like it? Get some outs and stop us then.

Most of these are BS.

I thought I might find baseball interesting and start watching more. After learning about these rules, I can confidently say it's a ridiculous sport.

I’m aware that there’s a few other things I could have added in the video, such as:
- No charging. When someone is about to tag you out at a base, charging at them will get you 40 fresh new enemies.
- Don’t get caught stealing signs. Signs get stolen on a regular basis, being caught doing this is asking for a drilling.
- If a pitcher has a problem with a specific player, they can choose to drill them when they next come to bat, instead of hitting the next batter up.
Anyone think of any more?