No joke, but the Federation rules we played under, throwing your bat OR helmet like that is a dead ball out. This batter did both
Adding since this got a lot of comments: I looked up the NFHS rules, and I got it right. This should have been a dead ball out, batter out, runners return, batter ejected. The rules is pretty clear
(I was a certified NFHS umpire for a decade). But Forgoing the rules, this is NOT the kind of thing we want players doing. It would have been an excellent life lesson
Then you get this kids dad coming in like this. No way a parent of a kid that acts like that would accept an ejection without at least cursing you out or trying to fight
I was a coach in this age group. My best hitter. Started developing an ego and did something very similar to this. Slowly walked to first as he admired his hit and tossed his helmet. I took him out the game and sat him for the next one. His teammates weren’t happy, but I expected better from my boys. I didn’t have to deal with an asshole parent, because he was my own.
I know he’s not everyone’s favorite, but I used Jeter as an example of someone who practiced humility on the field. He showed respect to opposing players, never let the praise and adoration get to his head and put in the work.
When the Red Sox (and their fans) give a Yankee a farewell bow, that says something about the player. Enough that your rivals showed you that it was a pleasure playing against you (and perhaps to see you go away 😂).
I've got a kid with some talent as well, and also use Jeter as an example of how you act when you have talent.
And we are a fucking Mets family.
I'll tell my fun Jeter story though. Back in his playing days I was dating this girl whose father worked for a car service as a side hustle. One day he picks up jeter at some silly hour of the morning at the airport. He is taking him to wherever, and they pass a 24 hour walmart. Jeter asks to stop because he needed socks. So him and Jeter go into walmart at like 5am, and buy some socks. He said Jeter was an awesome guy, they really hit it off, and had a great time just wandering walmart at 5am. They part ways, jeter gives him a fat tip.
Anyway, the next day, Jeter sends a fruit basket to his house. It had been a running thing in the NY tabloids at the time, that Jeter would send gift baskets to girls he was with the next morning.
Needless to say, his fruit basket from Jeter became the source of endless jokes. He kept the basket on his kitchen table filled with napkins, much to his wifes annoyance, so he would have an excuse to point out that "Derek Jeter sent me that" at every opportunity.
Just this week i was coaching my 6yo’s team - coach pitch. I was over helping the 1st & 2nd baseman, and my son was over playing 3rd. A kid at bat just couldn’t straighten out his swing and make contact, and i heard my son yell out “what is this a turd?!” I walked over to him, pulled him over into foul territory and calmly said stuff like: we don’t do that. Every kid here is learning. We encourage and stay positive to every one out here. Etc. As i was waking back to first across the diamond, the kid finally connected with one and ran it out. I was still strolling over when i felt my son run past and go “high 5” the kid. Happy he did that, but still a little put off at the fact that he yelled that out. It means i still have some work to do. lol
Props !!!!!!! I have never forgotten when I was bragging to my dad about how good I was at baseball and he stopped me in the middle of it and said if you are really good at something you don’t have to tell anyone because they already know. It was a simple conversation but it has stuck with me for life! I’m sure your child will always remember the lesson you taught them!
I played from age 5 to age 16, and my pops was either the manager of the team I was on, or he was umpiring.
One beautiful Saturday, I'm on the mound (rare event, I was more at home behind home plate) and enjoying what was shaping up to be a no hitter. Runners on base, and I'm pitching from the stretch. I suddenly remembered seeing big league pitchers bending over sorta with the ball in hand and behind the back, so I did the same. Pops called time and came out to the mound, and since things were going great for me so far, the back stopper and infielders came in for the pow wow, too. Pops gave me that cold look of disappointment and said "are you gonna pitch or are you gonna showboat?"
I never pitched again. I kept my ass where it belonged behind the plate.
My nephew is the exact opposite thankfully. He plays tournament ball and he is the closing pitcher. My sister said he feels bad every time they call him in. But he knows he's worked his ass off and he's good and that's why they put him as the closing pitcher.
I only ever had one guy come after me when I was umpiring. He took a swing at me when I was putting my gear away in my car but he was so trashed he missed by a mile and went night night all by himself on the pavement.
Weird. Nobody acted like this when I played baseball and anyone who tried got ejected pretty quickly, or just dropped entirely. But that was back when kids were held accountable.
I got ejected for throwing my helmet on the ground after being thrown out at home, sat the next game to painfully lose to an easy team in an out of state invitational.. not my proudest moment
Make it an automatic dead ball double play when doing both. If there is already two outs in the inning it’s an ejection. Simple as that. I get celebrating but dickhead kids need to cry over dickhead actions.
Happened to me 30ish years ago in little league. I didnt toss it towards the base but threw it back behind me after hitting it. Rules are rules, and I got upset but never did that again.
It technically still is in the rec leagues around here but no ump wants to get stabbed. The parents are assholes here. I would let the pitcher settle it next time they met though. That kid is going to catch some pitching inside.
I got called for throwing the bat when I was just dropping that shit in a dead sprint, meanwhile tubs over here is throwing that dead center of the field and acting a fool 😂
OK, so those are actual rules that he broke which could have (should have) been used to penalise him, but I feel the problem here is not that rules were not enforced. The problem is that a culture of asshollery and showing no grace in victory is fostered. The way this snotnose thinks the world of himself and is encouraged by his team speaks of a toxic attitude which is far beyond the rules of throwing a bat.
Where I grew up he gets beaned the next at bat. Then he gets benched by the coach and doesn’t play for a few games. Then the team yells at him. Then he gets yelled at the whole ride home and grounded.
I got tossed from a game for excessive tagging. I was at 3rd, play was at 3rd with a runner stealing, catcher threw it high so I had to reach up for the ball and quickly swipe down for the tag as he as sliding. My glove made contact with his helmet and knocked it off since I caught the side of it. Ump looks at the runner “you’re out” and then looks at me “you’re out too”.
I’m like “me? For what ? Then he hits me with excessive tagging lol. The guy sliding was my buddy and after the tag, I grabbed his helmet and made sure he was good. It was a local summer league just for fun and we were laughing about it as we walked off the field together.
I know i did, when I saw this kid chuck that bat I immediately went to "oh, nice hit but your out..." then he kept trotting around and my next thought was "... the fuck league allows this shit?"
"If I'm the dad"? Where do you think this kid learned to be such an a$$wipe? A rouge league team for sure, no association would sanction a team like this.
A bat flip is one thing, but tossing your helmet before you even get to 1st Base is automatic ejection territory. He also threw the bat into the field of play, not off to the side.
I wish an ejection before you reach 1st Base would disallow the home run.
I was a catcher in grade school and we played without a mask. It was back in the 1900s. I took a thrown bat in the teeth and lost some teeth. Fun times. They tossed the kid as I recall.
I'm watching him round the bases and do all of that unsportsmanlike crap, then when he steps on home I'm calling him out, ejecting him, and sending any runners back to their base. Then I'm talking to the coach and possibly throwing him out--depending on what he says--for not coming out on the field and trying to put a stop to his players behavior.
Multiple players because I'm counting that chest bump BS too.
I used to be an ump and that kid was out the second the bat came out of his hand and ejected with a league review for everything after. Minimum 2 games for that assholery and likely the season of it was repeated behaviour.
I’m very surprised he made it around before the other team piled on him.
Yeah, he'd be out for a couple games so his parents and coach remind him how to be a good sport, and that he's not in the pro's where idiots act like that.
I played little league back around 1975, and the emphasis was on being a good sport, and learning how to get better at playing the game. Hell, coach would chew my ass into next week, and then my mom would do it again! 😀
If I were his parents Id smack him not only for acting like that, but that bat is a juiced travel ball bat, looks like a Supra.. expensive as shit.. too bad most kids playing in these competitive leagues come from parents that probably like seeing their kids do shit like that. I bet he learned how to act like an asshole from his father
Technically he is out for touching the bat before home plate. lol
Different times though, if little dude pulled that against me back in the day his next at bat would not go so well for the Hermano.
I played little league like 25 years ago and remember that being a strict rule. Any bat throwing resulted in getting kicked out of the game. After a hit you’re suppose to lay your bat down when you start running.
Like you can celebrate a little bit a good fist in the air or something like that is alright and celebrates the hr in this case but shows good sportsmanship at the same time.
yup, i used to be a little league umpire for over 10 years , and i was known as the guy who threw a kid and aprents out of the game and the league. this wouldve got him tossed and the run forfeited as a dead ball foul.
Nah I’ll let that slide. The helmet is where I really want to ruin this little fucks day but I’ll start with a warning. Hopefully already give em one before this happened
Sarcasm incoming.
But he’s just a boy kid. Let the boy kid be boy kid. He hit a home run. If it was the other team that did that people would be furious…
All in all, that kid is a complete arrogant dick. The ump should have forfeited that hit and ejected him.
If I’m the parent I’m pulling that little fucker out the game myself and he will get a stern ass talking to and sit out the rest of the game watching his teammates play with good sportsmanship. Absolutely not having THAT!
If I were his coach, he’d be benched and I’d be having a meeting with him and parents. I coached baseball for 6 years. Every league in our area has strict rules on throwing bats or other equipment.
I’ve been called out for hitting the ump with the bat. I didn’t mean to but I guess I let go of it on the back swing trying to start running to first before the throw came from the 3rd basemen who I hit it right to.
I coach HS. In our league that's an out. Then I would bench that kid for games and have him shag balls for a two weeks. Baseball without sportsmanship is football with a stick.
The way he behaved I thought he was mad because he was out. Then when he threw the bat like that, I thought “if he wasn’t out, he is now!” Can’t believe he got away with that unsportsmanlike display.
He would have gotten tossed out of the game and it would have gotten called back in my league. Possibly uninvited from it as well for that bat and helmet toss.
I hit a home run in little league and as I was crossing the plate I started to remove my helmet. Ump called me out. Had to have been like 1990. I was pissed. This kid should be ejected.
Lol. Was just thinking that. I hope that was the team practicing. If it was an actual game it would have been hilarious if the ump called him out once he got to home base after his circus performance.
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u/patchinthebox 16h ago
If I'm the ump I'm calling him out for throwing the bat like a goober.