HILARIOUS AT BAT Trevor Bauer vs. Jose Ramirez | Breaking Point w/ Trevor Bauer

i have not stopped laughing about this at bat for three days it just it just i've watched it probably a hundred times it just makes me so happy uh you know that scene in the movie where the main character is like starting at the end of the movie it's like you want to know how i got to this position and the movie rewinds and he tells you exactly how he got to that position that's what we're going to do today but only if you hit that subscribe button because this video is for subscribers only so don't be a cheater hit the subscribe button so you don't miss this breakdown or any future breakdowns so for those of you who are watching who have not seen the history between me and jose uh we're going to go ahead and we're going to play that right now so you kind of know what i'm talking about because jose and i have a little bit of a history it stems from some of the bats we had against each other in the desert last quarantine so i'm gonna play that right now so you can check it out strikeout pitch coming hold wrong whoa jose i popped up the second base that was popping up the second house that ball went 100 feet that's a hug run bro that's a home run maybe on a small field run out pop up the second base hey let's fight flight mode maybe 500 inches [Laughter] oh man so jose and i have that at bat a little bit of a back story every time i was in cleveland every time i'd see jose we'd go back and forth and back and forth we'd you know talk back and forth and we had a pretty good relationship like that he's a pretty good talker for not speaking a lot of english so i always used to tell him that when i faced him i was going to tell him what pitches were coming and i was going to punch him out and so i get the opportunity in the desert and don't tell him what pitches are coming and that at bat and he hits what he considers a home run still to this day he considers it a home run of course we'll never actually know if it was or not he did hit it pretty well however that's kind of the back story so you got me telling him uh for years in cleveland that i was going to punch him out and tell him what pitches are coming you got the home run not home run desert ball and that hilarious interaction so i'm just going to play for you in case you haven't seen it what just happened when we matched up in a spring training game i'm just going to watch it through because it makes me so happy and then we're going to break it down right after so this is what just happened jose ramirez fouls this one off [Music] back to it yeah now bauer was asked after his first appearance and we saw that i referred to it as the closed eye peekaboo delivery asked if there was a reason why and he answered yes but he did not elaborate he just told him what pitch was coming too did you see that he told ramirez here comes number one but do you deliver believe him well yeah he gave him the high five and now he's he's motioning at breaking balls yeah one eye he's pointing my eyes closed breaking ball and there's the break i mean trevor's being honest he's telling him what's coming well he's being honest they hit her but he's not letting the information out to anyone else on why he's doing it what surprises me is when you close your eye immediately you lose depth perception slider yeah one eye closed i'm showing okay there it is [Applause] here comes the heat right by him [Music] [Applause] i don't know if mark pryor could watch what else can he do i mean here it is you know it's coming can't hit it he's the champ all right so that's all just such great fun uh how did we get to that position in the game so let's break this down this is the first at-bat that i have against jose of the day and i honored my word and i told him all the pitches that were coming so here we go cut her up and in i know knowing something about jose i actually got some scouting reports on him from the time that i was with him in cleveland and i know that there's some things that he doesn't like and generally cutter sliders up in this area he's not too fond of everything else he pretty much hits you can get him on some curveballs down here sometimes if he's not feeling great at the plate but i did want to i did want to go with these with the cutters up and in because in those desert live at bats i threw him some of those and he definitely uh did not like those so that's kind of the idea here i signal to him cut her up and in so for those of you who don't know this hand symbol is kind of like a cutter so this is fastball and that's like a cut fastball and you have slider with the glove and you have curveball with the glove and you generally pull back like pulling the string for a change up so and then anytime someone goes like this it would be a two-seam or a sinker so those are kind of the hand symbols which is important because as you're watching the video you'll be able to see me doing different things with my with my hand and my glove to signal what's coming so i tell him first pitch cut her up and in and i miss up top here we go again you can see the fastball right there if we just scroll back a little bit you can see the glove right over in this area there's the symbol there's the fastball symbol right there and i'm signaling now when i signal kind of up in the to this direction it's a fastball up and in if i signal up into this direction fastball up and away similarly down and away and down and in so that's kind of the uh the lingo that's going on here so fastball up and in and we get it there he takes a huge hack look at this hack it comes off balance i love it i love it okay so there's really not any sequencing going on here i'm going to draw where this one was just to kind of set the level i'm not really trying to sequence anything here i'm just like hey i'm telling you what's coming i'm going to throw it and we're going to see who wins so he takes a huge hack and swings through it and i'm like oh i'm telling him right here i'm talking to him i'm saying oh you're a little late jose a little late uh so we're kind of talking back and forth this entire bat so we're 1-1 here if you notice uh first fastball was 95 that one was 96 this one is 97 so i got a little bit of my heart rate's up i got a little adrenaline going here because i'm telling them what's coming and it's just a fun matchup so here we go we go fastball in again with that glove signal missed down and in pulled it a little bit 97 here we come next pitch fastball away so that's where i was saying when i signal kind of down in this way it's fastball uh away i'm just gonna give him a chance to hit it right here in this pitch i'm trying to i'm just trying to fill up this part of the zone because i know that's where the most damage is probably going to come so i'm just trying to see if i can beat him in the spot that he's going to hit it and we get it right there kind of down middle and you can see actually here he's right on this timing wise look at that full extension through that ball so you have full extension right here and right there so he's dead on this ball it just slides off his barrel just a little bit but timing he is right right on that we get to 2-2 that was 96. here comes 97 i give him the all right so this is kind of cool so i give him the fastball here's the glove sign with the fastball right here you can watch my arm you can't really see this the sign but i'm going fastball right there kind of give a little bit of a head nod i'm like uh-huh it's gonna be another fastball here you go you miss the last two then if you see so i give that and then with my right hand i actually give like this sign which usually means center cut right down the middle so this is me just talking a little bit of friendly junk to him there it is that like you know right down the middle sign right there with the hand boom right down the middle and then we go straight into it now i'm just basically trying to throw this ball right where the red circle is and since he knows it's coming it's a 2-2 pitch here and we actually get a chase on a pitch it's like way up above the zone now jose is probably one of the only guys in the league that can actually like put a barrel on this ball and he was dead on it timing-wise he was right on that again you can see like he's having to like stand up to get to it but full extension right there before uh contact and full extension through contact and he's still taking a huge hack i mean let's just look at this hack in real time ah right on it okay so now i'm talking to him like okay okay he's still a little bit late come on jose let's go come on josie i'm just talking to him he's kind of laughing at me in between pitches so here here we go again here's the cutter sign so here we're going cutter up and in there right there there's that cutter sign boom he goes okay he knows it's coming up and in and i miss and you can see right here i'm like ah because i think i think i have him if i get that cutter kind of in this zone i think he swings and misses at it he doesn't like that pitch as you'll see uh in the next or actually a couple of bats the third at-bat but i kind of like ah you know i'm mad that i missed that pitch i'm talking to myself come on now you gotta throw that first strike so now i don't wanna walk him so it's just like all right here's gonna be your fastball away that's where i'm trying to get it 97 on this pitch don't get it down in the way we get it actually right in this in this zone right there and you can see again he's dead on time right through it he's just missing a little bit ball's just sliding off his barrel i had a lot of lift on the ball in this game so i think uh on a day where i have my normal fastball he probably hits quite a few of these actually but i had some i had some good lift going on uh this this day it was spinning pretty good so i'm yelling at him oh come on josie come on okay speed it up get your back going just kind of yelling at him the whole time this one's 98 there's that fastball sign just up and in i thought he was late on that one and here we go right there again same exact result he's right on it just missing it and he actually told people when he goes back to the dugout he's like oh yeah i was right on it right on i just you know couldn't get on top of it which is what we see here because he was dead on timing wise here we go fastball in way up above the zone full extension through that pitch and say okay okay here we go so that so now we give the uh we give the fastball and hand right here we're signaling down so i'm telling him i'm trying to throw it down in the zone so i'm trying to get it here because i fully believe that if i execute this pitch right here he swings and misses at it after swinging it all these pitches up here i think he swings and misses that one down so i thought i had him and i get the ball down nope that's not the one fastball up again i missed my down so now i go fastball again i'm trying to get this ball down in this area and i think this is the one where i just pull it down so i get it down it's actually about the right height from a freeze perspective but i yank it way across the plate i think if that ball's over here near the red circle i have a chance of getting it framed and being a looking strike but you can see my reaction here is i just yell at myself because i'm mad that i lost the battle and you just look at jose he's just staring right at me he gives me the little it cuts off right before but you can see he gives me the little like point like yeah it's down like why are you why are you throwing a ball [Laughter] jose is an elite elite talker he's just so good at it for especially for not uh not speaking a lot of english but anyway here's the second at-bat so first of all i tell them everything that's coming second to bad i was like okay i gotta lock in i gotta actually like you know get through some innings here i threw a lot of pitches in the first thing like i could get through some innings here get my pitch count up and compete and get in that mindset so this is me just competing against him uh straight up not telling him what pitches are coming and this is the first pitch slider in so here's this is i'm actually trying to sequence on this one so i'll walk you through what i'm what i'm thinking here let me draw my strikes and actually that's not quite right let's see we're more like right here let's give that that's a decent strike zone there okay so first off i'm thinking let me get a cutter up in this zone i miss and then we come back with that same cutter and we get that strike so this is kind of the area that i'm thinking to him if i can get that cutter right up top there and you can see that cutter kind of crosses right about here that's that's gonna be a good location so we started him off with two cutters now we come back we're just gonna abuse that spot a little bit we get to get the cutter right in that zone and we see this reaction he's there's a little bit of like okay that's a ball he sinks into his legs right here this frame right here if you watch his legs he kind of sinks down a little bit there's a little bit of buckle right there you can see this kind of like the back toe is not really rotating it's just kind of coming up or the back heel i should say okay and then there's this little like oh he sits down again on this one you can see him kind of like getting a little bit lower in his legs and then it's like oh an emergency swing like oh it's actually going to be a strike and he's kind of fighting it off so to me when i see this sink into the legs buckle a little bit and then fight it off this is on a 1-1 count this isn't even just defending with two strikes this is a 1-1 count and you can read his body language here he's like looking at where the ball went he's like hmm he pulls his hands in here a little bit you can see him pull his hands in like to his body like ooh that one kind of crowded me a little bit so to me this area you know i'm i'm learning in this at-bat like he does not like cutters up in this area and that's why i went with those now i had a little bit of information beforehand from the desert at bats where i knew that that was a good spot but that's kind of what i'm seeing here when i'm reading his body language so now after three pitches that start or two pitches two strikes that start here and end up as strikes right here i figured i'd start a ball about here and break it below the zone and see if i get that chase curveball in this zone uh below the plate uh that i mentioned earlier in this video so that's my thought process here and just don't just don't get it there uh this pitch is up way well up above his eyes and you see that sinking into the legs again a little bit he's sinking down and then he just puts this kind of defensive swing on it uh realizes it's gonna be a strike um and just kind of puts this like let me just try to foul this off i think he was just trying to foul it off uh not the best swing if you watch it in real time you can see actually if you watch it in real time you can actually see a little bit of that buckle in that delay watch ramirez like watch him kind of sit down a little bit there's this little bit of delay and a little bit of buckle on this pitch when it's coming right there there's a little bit of hitch in the swing where he reads ball out of the hand but then identifies it's going to be a strike and kind of has to restart the swing and we get a weak little pop fly out to left field and right here if you look at me i see it and then i turn real quick to say something to jose as he's running to to first base and i said home run let's try to make fun of him a little bit for uh you know basically saying that bali hit in the desert uh is the same ball that he just hit there so that's where i'm telling him right there home run so here we go here's the third at bat here's the fun one and before this he was at third base right before the sixth inning and i ran up the steps and i said jose hey i got his attention and i say he goes one more one more inning i said yeah are you hitting second this inning he goes yeah and his second i said you want you want this again and he goes yeah i said okay i'll give you this you go okay and i said when i one eye though he goes no no no two two eyes no no one eye two i said okay we'll see so he didn't want the he didn't want the one eye closed he wasn't a big fan of that so the very first thing i do you see right here watch the hand we got one finger right there there it is one finger and i give him the one finger like to the eye like this one one eye there's the fastball sign fastball up and away let's get a strike zone up here because i feel like for this at bat it's going to be a little bit relevant whereas there's a pitch that a lot of people in the crowd as you heard earlier thought it was a strike so here we go first pitch fastball down middle right here been missing this ball all day but he's right on time with it all of these swings if he makes contact with any of these it's going a very very long way look at the helmet you can see the helmet coming off of his head here and just like rattling around there he's swinging so hard he's like okay okay good first swing here we go okay cut there's that cutter sign cutter up and in again going back to this area with the cutter that he doesn't like and there's the there's the hand one eye pointing to the eye right there good pitch good pitch definitely miss but it does what i want it to do it comes out flat looks like a fastball just above the zone and ends up just kind of and you can see he doesn't like he doesn't like the ball kind of breaking in and getting close to him and this at bat you can see this ball doesn't miss the plate by very much at all but you see his reaction and this ball is nowhere close to actually hitting him but his reaction is he's not looking for the ball to come in gives me a little head nod right there okay fastball away gives me you see again right there you see a little bit of a head nod there it is just a little little acknowledgement he reads this as a ball it probably is a ball but get the strike call and this actually opens up the back quite a bit when i get this strike call he you know he he's like i don't know about that i didn't think it was a strike and i got the strike on i was like okay this is good now i can rip some breaking balls i can have a little bit more fun with this if this count goes to 2-1 i'm probably coming with another heater because i don't want to go 3-1 against him and take a chance at walking him again so that's actually a really big pitch in this at-bat so before as we saw in the prior in the prior video watching the announcers we don't catch it on this video but i give him the glove sign for the curveball ball starts way up and now this is the second time today that he's seen a ball start up that level and end up as a strike so he actually takes a much better swing at this now you can see him pulling his hands into his body just a little bit here and rotating um this ball beats him for sure but he fouls it off and i give him a little like i give him a little head nod like i'm talking to him here i'm like ah almost had you jose almost almost and we're kind of going back and forth and he's doing his little thing i'm talking to him a little bit here we go and this one this is the one the crowd wanted so jose is looking at me like what are you gonna what are you gonna give me let me get the signs let me get the signs looking straight out here like what do you got for me give him a slider he's like um come on bro slider look at his head look head to like [Music] he's not too he's not too on the slider but he says okay here we go and then we paint uh i want that it's not a strike it was definitely off he's right i knew it wasn't a strike the umpire's right jose is right gives a little head little head shake right there you can see right here nope and the fans are going crazy back here you heard earlier they're going crazy jose looks out at me right after that shaking his head and i give him a knot i'm like i know i know not a strike okay here we go so there's the fastball sign fastball one eye closed and goes okay and it's on and this is this is where i'm trying to get the ball right down and kind of down in the way where i've been trying to get it all day because i'm pretty sure that's a swing and miss down middle he's going to foul it off but i think if i get this ball oops there goes my strike zone let's redraw that i think if i get this ball kind of in this zone outside over here uh he's he's out and that's exactly what happens get that ball down and away i give a little bit of a i threw it i grunted i saw i struck him out like i was all excited so there's there's my reaction first reaction right there i think jose's reaction is super funny here so he swings has a great swing just misses it first off will does a great he foul tips this ball just a little bit right into the palm get the catch secure it jose's immediate reaction is to turn around and look and say oh did he catch it so he's like oh look at look how fast his head turns here he's like uh oh did he did he catch it and he sees that he caught it so i give the i give the scream and i go hands on knees to look at him i'm just staring at him like with a big smile on my face and he's looking at me like oh you got to be kidding me he's got this big smile on his face he's like oh is there a hole in my bat you know look at him look at his bat right here he sees the catcher catches it look at him look at his bat first thing he looks at his bat like where's the hole in this barrel like why he looks it he doesn't know what to do he's like ah he got me and then i'm staring at him staring at him staring at he's walking away like the biggest the biggest smile on his face i got the biggest smile on my face and then i hit him at the end on twitter don't worry son it's just spring training keep your head up so claiming him as my son uh man what a fun at bat what a fun at bat i'm gonna replay the bat with the announcers talking about it now that you have the backstory of all the different stuff that's going on just to watch one more time because it's just so fun it makes me so happy but this picture i will save this picture forever on my phone look at this smile look at this smile he just knows that he's been got he doesn't know he doesn't know what to do he was telling uh will smith the entire battery go hey this guy's loco this guy's loco this guy's crazy he's that's always what he used to tell me in cleveland oh you crazy bro you crazy i called me loco all the time so that's my bat with jose i had a lot of fun that's probably the most fun i've had playing baseball you can probably see it on my face i'm just so happy looking at it and watching it and stuff like that breaking it down that's probably the most fun i've had playing baseball in an individual like baseball moment uh and i can't even remember when most times i'm having fun it's uh it's in the competition you know it's like i'm having fun but it's a very intense competition and that's what i'm having fun doing is being a very intense competitor this one it was an intense competition but it was just it was just so much fun in general so i'm gonna leave you guys with this clip from the broadcasters play it one more time let you guys enjoy that on the way out and i'll see y'all in the next video jose ramirez fouls this one off well with the closed eye peekaboo delivery

Channel: Trevor Bauer

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Length: 26min 51sec (1611 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 31 2021