Category: Giancarlo Stanton

Home Plate Angle of Dodgers' Yoshinobu Yamamoto Pitching vs. Yankees Was Frightening
8 Jun 24 Jimm Sallivan

Home Plate Angle of Dodgers’ Yoshinobu Yamamoto Pitching vs. Yankees Was Frightening

One can imagine that attempting to hit against major league pitching is one of the most difficult feats in professional sports.

But nothing does that sentiment justice quite like home plate camera angles of at-bats.

There were two such camera angle shots during the Los Angeles Dodgers' 2-1 win over the New York Yankees on Friday night at Yankee Stadium—and they were frightening.

The first saw Dodgers starting pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who tossed seven innings of shutout ball against the Yankees, fire a 97 MPH sinker that shattered New York slugger Giancarlo Stanton's bat as he grounded out to Mookie Betts at shortstop in the bottom of the fourth inning.

Then, two frames later in the bottom of the sixth inning, Yamamoto, facing Yankees star Aaron Judge, fired a 97 MPH heater for a called strike, an offering that was caught on a home plate camera angle in a video posted onto X, formerly Twitter, by Rob Friedman.

The scariest part about these angles is that they still don't do true justice as to how fast the pitches are coming out of Yamamoto's hand.

And Yamamoto certainly was lighting up the radar gun on Friday night, as his four-seam fastball boasted an average speed of 97 MPH, up 1.5 MPH from his season average of 95.5, en route to the seven-strikeout performance against one of the best lineups in MLB.

The Dodgers (40-25) and Yankees (45-20) will lock horns again on Saturday at 7:35 p.m. ET, with Gavin Stone (6-2, 2.90 ERA) on the mound for Los Angeles and Nestor Cortes (3-4, 3.46 ERA) opposing him for New York.

Giancarlo Stanton, Los Angeles Dodgers, MLB, New York Yankees, Yoshinobu Yamamoto
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Giancarlo Stanton Crushed by MLB Fans for Swinging at Laughably Bad Pitch
1 May 24 Jimm Sallivan

Giancarlo Stanton Crushed by MLB Fans for Swinging at Laughably Bad Pitch

It's not often that you can turn on a Major League Baseball game and see a player do something that you could easily do. Baseball at the professional level is a very a hard sport and the majority of us would look silly if we ever got the chance to play in a game.

But thanks to a swing by New York Yankees star Giancarlo Stanton during Tuesday night's loss to the Baltimore Orioles, fans everywhere were able to feel a sense of commonality, as New York's designated hitter whiffed on a pitch that was nowhere near the strike zone.

Seriously, any of us could have done this:

That's not the best of looks for Stanton.

MLB fans had fun ripping him:

Giancarlo Stanton, Major League Baseball, Orioles, Yankees
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