Turning the most boring move in baseball, into the most exciting video on youtube. Pog

this whole video was created so that he could use the phrase "Good Will Bunting" and I'm HERE for it

“The bases are loaded, one out… feels like a great time to bunt” This is just funny to me 😂

I love how they never adjusted to your strategy for even 1 pitch

1987 Cardinals: *Finally, a worthy opponent!*

i won a hell of a lot of high school games with bunts...drove the parents crazy...we worked on stealing and running behind fielders...it just drives the defense crazy...it turns into a flood

5:28 Best part of the video. You went from calm to Bobby Cox after that second homer. Love it.

holy shit this is my absolute favorite mlb vid ever, i literally cried when you yelled at shane bieber, we need the online follow up lmfao

Bunting is more than just a sacrifice hit done by bad hitter. Great hitters also use the bunt to catch the defense off guard. If a defense is playing too far back or the shift is on for said batter, a perfectly placed bunt can get them on base or even a double in some cases. It's also a common hitting move for speedsters to get on base with an infield hit.

man’s producing some absolute bangers recently. keep it up.

As a Guards fan, this was basically their 2022 season. Which got them to the post-season so I guess it worked out. Also, watching Jose Ramirez bunt with bases loaded was just pain.

Love ur energy bro keep it up, I lost it when they hit the second run💀

this was a very pleasing video considering how my high school baseball team played. Barely 13 kids on a varsity division 3 program but still managed to win a majority of our games by playing small ball. We even managed to get 14 wins in a row out of our 20 game season

I really love the editing! It’s paced really well! Also, your precision while bunting is great, definitely couldn’t pull this off myself.

It reminds me of when I was playing MVP Baseball 2003 on my PS2 and I realized the way "good" pitchers worked was they threw fewer strikes. So I stopped swinging with less than 2 strikes, and facing Kevin Brown (one of the best pitchers in the game), I drew 23 consecutive walks.

Bunting is a great strategy...when almost every single pitch is a strike. But then again home runs would also work against all pitches in the zone.

Genuinely great stuff, you're just a natural entertainer. Glad I found your channel- look forward to seeing it grow!

I remember I figured out a way to bunt for a hit every time in Backyard Baseball and I won a game 500-0.

I'm so glad you did this! Great job. I coached high school baseball and one day we were being shut down by a huge fireball pitcher, so I order my famous Bunt Attack! Bunt for a hit, stole second, sac to third, squeeze him in, WE WIN!

Granted I never did anything in baseball, but I was good enough to get a tryout from the Reds because of my speed. I was fast, so fast most semi pro teams couldn't throw me out on a routine play, it took something heroic, which as you said, also led to some catastrophic errors sending me to third. If I wasn't already on third, I was such a disruption either the next batter would get easy stuff to hit from a distracted pitcher or I'd steal second and third. My specialty, was the slow roller to third batting left, essentially a full swing bunt, but I could bunt for hits off junk pitches either way as well. I could also just bend over to give them no strike zone and watch. A walk would put me on third just as easily. Eventually they would get wise. When teams would creep in, then I could swing away. A power hit for me got over the infielders. A fly to the infield dirt when they were inside the bag worked just as well. I could confuse them and bat right. When they would put an opposite field shift on, I got an inside the park down the right field line. I was close to the embodiment of your strategy. Why didn't I go further? I was 5'8" 117 pounds as an adult, no power at all, and while I could run under anything in the field, the return throw was only strong enough to get to the infielders.

Pretty easy to do when the pitcher is only throwing FBs down the pipe. Do this with all pitches being thrown. Let me know how this works out

I love the idea of using this strategy against Tony LaRussa. "Ok, hear me out. They've bunted 36 times in a row, but that was to lull us into a fall sense of security. Play the infield DEEP and--- zzzz" *Falls asleep*

I choked on candy when you said "Bases loaded, one out, feels like a great time to bunt"

"Fukin good will bunting" 🤣

"at this rate they're gonna have to put their manager on the mound by the end of the game". I almost shit myself laughing

If I was in the stands and my team was doing that, I'd be happy they were winning, but I'm already making my way to the parking lot. "$20 beers for this?" 😂😂

"Good against remotes is one thing. Good against the living, that's something else."

As a massive fan of Secret Base’s Fumble Dimension series, this video nails the spirit of just mangling sports video games. Keep it up!

Who knew I’d say this about a 6min baseball video game bunting video, but this is the best video on the internet. The highs(scoring and executing the perfect plan), the lows(giving up runs and the absolute rage from it) and perfect nick names Good Will Bunting and the Crocodile Bunter! Lmao you win. Idk what it is but you win.

To make baseball fun to watch, 2 things need to happen. 1) No homeruns - The ball must be in the field of play. 2) Teams pitch to themselves - This means that you will get the pitch you want every time. These 2 sound stupid but hear me out please. This takes the game away from hit and miss sluggers and power pitchers who keep hitting batters, and gives it to precise pitchers and placement hitters. This also puts the defense into motion on every at bat. No more standing around while the pitcher and catcher play pass.

😂 that 2nd HR reaction

Reminds me of playing Joe Montana Football on the Sega. Every offensive play was a strong side Sweep, every defensive play was a punt return. The game just couldn’t adjust to having that much tonnage on the line for EVERY play. Every field goal attempt or extra point was a fake. Every Kickoff was an onside kick, but I would kick it at full strength. It constantly put players in places on the field that the computer couldn’t anticipate

I think if a team lost to this IRL it would destroy their season. You can't recover from the physiological damage of losing to only bunts.

Obviously this assumes the infielders wouldn't realize what's happening. Cuz obviously they'd all move in ready for the bunt.

you might be able to tire out a pitcher by making him constantly field the ball

My classic MLB 2K06 move. Usually scored 5 or so, put an emphasis on stealing second on the first pitch and then a bunt on the second. A lot of sacrifice bunts that if the throw was late to home lended itself to some big innings

your honestly my favorite mlb the show youtuber, keep up the grind

Alternate title: "Using Hank Hill's Baseball Strategy in MLB"

I had a bunt with the pitcher in the Show 16 where the ball just stopped moving. It was in no man's land between 3rd and home. The perfect bunt.

@3:30, In my great-grandparents’ day, bunting for hits was far more common than it is today.

I feel like if this happened IRL, whatever team did it would be the most hated baseball team in history, even more if they win the World Series. Which is why I love this. This feels like the plot to one of those ridiculous sports comedy movies of the 90s. You know, the type where a kid becomes a team owner, or a gecko plays at 1st base.

Nice of those pitchers to throw the ball straight down the middle every time

Your videos lately have been a w

haha, great vid! That second inning didn't sound like "no big deal"

The way Clevelands lineup hits its almost like their bunting constantly anyway.

A real baseball team could do a number of things to prevent this from working such as: pickoffs, pitchouts throwing pitches high and inside or playing defenders in to protect the bunt. Just a little spoiler alert

amazing video! Love the humor! and your narration is perfect! now the ASTROS need to implement this lol

“Fucking good will bunting” that got me good, spit my pint out for fucks sake

We got the crocodile bunter around here😂

Bunt for a whole season 😂

One huge problem. If play someone, even the cpu, not every single pitch will be a fastball down the middle for an easy bunt lol.

I loved all the puns!

Absolutely the best commentary I’ve heard in a video

Looking foward to the online version of this!

Looks like the AI fielders don't start charging until after the bunt is laid down, instead of charging once the batter squares to bunt. A critical oversight that makes all the difference in the world as the video shows.

Crocodile Bunter!! I see what you did here 😂😂

No I wanna see a whole season of this lol

Crocodile Bunter, love it

Hey man i just wanna say ur videos are extremely fun and amazing, keep the good job!

Of course it is a Tony La Russa coached team to struggle against this

That works until the 3rd batter and the defense realizes it’s a bunt fest, at which point they start sending the infield in to mess up your whole day! It’s a good strategy tho, used in the early 1900’s and the occasional great manager.

he found a great way to game the computer’s algorithm and programming against itself. haha nice!

First time here. The idea is brilliant. In real life, they call this "Manufacturing A Run".

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This is what I do in my franchise mode, I like pitching in the show but when I need some insurance runs I usually leadoff bunt to get someone on and then steal to get RISP and get said insurance runs

I used to do this all the time in Bad News Baseball on my NES. It worked very well if you had a fast team.

somebody mentioned the ‘87 Cardinals and that is all well and good but now I want to see some crazy bold, ambitious, gutsy ML manager actually do it for real, commit to an all bunt game, and see what happens for real, even if it all goes down in flames in real life. Imo the manager would have to have the whole team informed and on board with the idea so that hopefully a disgruntled one doesn’t decide to go against the call and bat like regular. But yah I’d definitely love to see a major league team do it in real life for real just for the shits and giggles of it and for the hilarious media firestorm it would generate for about a week or two after.

I lost it at the second home run….I finally heard what I sound like from another perspective when I play

Love how AI Ramirez is back in the box and ready to take practice swings while AI Grandal is walking back across the plate to his position.

The same strategy was also very effective in the Ken Griffey Jr baseball game for the super Nintendo back in the 90s

These vids are great. Keep it up!

The computer magically hitting home runs or making you walk its batters is why I've never gotten into video game baseball since the days of Micro League.

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Dude when you said that final line it made me want to know how it went with the online game :D

In grade 3 we had a super informal recess/after school league organized by, well, me and my friends and I started utilizing a similar strategy. Good times.

I’ve been doing this all year 😂😂😂

Crocodile bunter. 😂🤣👌

I'm not the biggest fan of baseball but this video was thoroughly entertaining.

This man needs more recognition

Gives me fumble dimension vibes. I like it

When I was a kid , I had a Tiger electronics hand held baseball game. Bunting every at bat was my strategy, couldnt lose.

Bunting can be the most exciting play in baseball. Players don't do it because it's all about home runs. Managers don't call it because they don't know how to teach or use it. Once in a blue moon a player will bunt with two strikes, gets on base and the announcers go crazy saying that it's genius. You know why? Because it is. I love baseball. Always have. It's a thinking man's game. Like chess. Or it was. Now it's all about how far you can hit it, bat flip it, and slow trot your way around the bases. Give ma a lead off, against the shift, two strikes bunt in any inning and maybe I'll watch baseball again. Until then, keep racking up them strikeouts.

I haven't seen an MLB vid game gameplay in so long the graphics are amazing.

Gremlin tactics XD

That's how Pete Rose got so many hits in his career, he bunted.

Imagine a lineup of Ichiros just bunting.

My game-breaker in MVP Baseball 2005 (PC version) was to have a fast lefty leadoff hitter who would do nothing but push bunts down the 3B line. I started with Ichiro, but later moved on to a game-generated player. In 3 seasons, I got him to 1246 hits and 1104 stolen bases. His career batting average was .543, and he had a 150 game hit streak. OK, I didn't always have him bunt. Sometimes if he already had a hit in the game I would swing away, so he had 14 HR, 15 2B, and 12 3B in those 3 seasons. I wish I could still play that game, but it won't work on newer graphics cards.

Dude changed pitchers like that was the problem lol

Amazing video, I love it

Now I want to see a video of you actually trying this online 😂

"Just bunt deep" It kept getting funnier.......

The Crocodile Bunter

First, you have to be able to actually bunt with consistency and control. I was able to bunt fairly well from both sides of the plate, but it was no guarantee to success.

Bunting like this worked great in the NES Major League baseball game back in the day. Now that I think about it, maybe that inspired a lot of my bunting in little league. It was super easy to get on base this way and stealing was also super easy, at least through 8th grade. Way easier at 60ft I'm sure, but still fun.

Ichiro gonna unretire you keep this up

Shows how easy you can beat the show 22 by bunting. nice video

Rofl with good will bunting 😂

Bunts are a cheat code in so many baseball video games. Ken griffey jr for snes and super mega baseball 3 are good examples

Tony LaRussa looking fit, trim, and really young during that pitching change.

The bunt is def not a boring move!