I Challenged MLB The Show YouTubers to... Blitzball?!

[Music] baseball has always been a big part of my life I've been a Yankee fan ever since I was a kid played baseball video games all the way back in 2006 competed in Little League for 10 years it even played Wiffle ball in my backyard with my friends now I make videos about MLB the show but there's one form of baseball that's entirely new to me Blitzball Blitzball has been kind of blowing up these last few years and I never really expected to play it well that was until last year [Music] I got owned by all of these MLB the Show players and the internet let me hear it well that's enough of hurting my own self-esteem in 30 days I'll be flying out to Seattle for the All-Star Game and we'll be playing Blitzball yet again I'll be spending this month training and learning the ins and outs of Blitzball so when I play these YouTubers again I don't look like a doofus so this is the setup I've got a slow pit that's not a good start you have the slow pitch device right there so this was the start going outside taking some swings and really practicing baseball in some way shape or form for the first time in at least 10 years oh that's a hack those are potatoes are right and I even whipped out the regular bed and got some swings in but we were taking it slow day number one in the books so I'd continue through week one getting some swings in I was just trying to get a feel for things not trying to really get better yet and as you can see I had some points where I looked good and some points where I looked really bad and I decided to throw for the first time on day number three and I realized why I was so easy to hit last time well holy Christopher perfect perfect I just I decided to take a big jump and learn to throw two Blitzball pitches I started off by lobbing in a curveball and I was able to get some spin on it and then I decided to try the screwball the throat is pitched well you had to throw it sidearm and I've never done this before but this turned out way better than I expected you could see the pitch move in the arm side to the right and you can see it had some drop to it and the feeling I had of learning this pitch and seeing it be effective was great even though I was far from perfect this feeling of practice turning out good is a feeling I haven't felt in 10 years since I've stopped playing baseball that's a good start we reached one week and that last day really encouraged me to keep practicing pitching so after warming up for a bit I decided to practice the knuckle drop unfortunately this pitch was not a pitch I learned as well so I moved on to practicing my curveball and today we actually saw a lot of improvement I realized I just had to throw harder to get a little bit more spin on it so you could actually see that pitch move to the left which I was feeling pretty good about so after practicing the screwball for a little bit I decided to give it a hundred percent act like I was pitching against a real batter for the first time but there was a bit of a problem I was fighting my body since I was putting myself through this bit of a workout but I mustered up the energy and decided to pitch a hundred percent you could see the pitches were moving I was hitting some spots and I was feeling really good about the pitching after our first week so for week two I wanted to focus on the bats to get going so I was taking a bunch of swings and started to make some adjustments while some of them definitely weren't good I was working bit by bit to find that good swing and by the time this session ended I was feeling really nice with the bad that felt good and I even decided to go live on Twitch this tea session was really nice I just didn't we have to focus on the timing of anything everyone was just thinking about my form but I did kind of embarrass myself you saw nothing you saw nothing okay I also found out everyone in my chat was a hitting coach use that lower body oh trust me I know we're working on it Mikey I'm trying to get good I'm sorry and I felt very good after this session well until the very end of course ah I took the advice of the twitch chat and decided to work on getting my lower body involved in my swing and there are a lot of goofy looking swings in this session here today but I really just wanted to focus on better form by the end of it and I felt like my swings were better but it's really tough to tell especially when hitting just soft toss or off a tee I don't really know if this was really helping so I went to throw and I ran into another problem my arm kind of hurts you might not throw [Music] um all right that one hurt the armor you're not gonna lie at this point my arm was killing me and I started to even wonder why am I making this video why am I recording myself in my yard just killing my arm okay I found the arm slot that wouldn't hurt my arm and the motivation came right back I spent so long this day throwing pitch after pitch trying to get it down that even got to Sunset and two hours flew by just like that so I kept blabbing it up out here trying to get it down and after I got a bit tired I decided to rest up for the final week before our games it was finally here no more practice it was time to put it all on the field 30 days of training has all led up to this moment and for today's games we would be playing 2v2 two innings and every at-bat would have five balls and two strikes so we had the sit out game number one and we would watch the former roommates go up against the two Seattle Natives and Anson swan were off to a great start walking the bunch and hitting some backside singles and it would eventually get the bases loaded but the Holy Grail would bounce back on the mound and manage to strand those Runners and this would still remain a nothing nothing game ants dominated last time we played Blitzball but he was in a bit of trouble this time oh yeah [Music] giving up two home runs in this first inning Anson Swan would go down quickly in the second and we would be playing the Seattle natives if we managed to win game one but it was time for us to play me and Ray cheesy would be going up against the two minnesotans let's just say I didn't start the way I wanted to turn on its Sunny's first time playing Blitzball and he couldn't find the zone so we would just take walk after walk after walk Gomes would enter the game and after striking out Ray he thought he'd found it but he eventually also lost a zone so we end up taking a bunch of walks to take a three-nothing lead and I started to swing aggressively and he'd strike me out to end the inning now it was time for me to pitch and I was feeling good [Music] yes this is it wow the curveball was even working I started off with a two-pitch strikeout next at bat I would get Gomer to ground out the short and in the next it bad against Dooney I struggled to find the Zone but those pitches were still looking good I bounced back with the curveball but after falling behind 4-1 I still had one good pitch in Gomer would struggle to find the Zone yet again but I came up aggressive swinging at the first couple pitches but I battled this at-bat to the very end but he so had some sauce he dotted me it's a great fastball and then Gomer found it throwing two dots to Rey and then diced me up for my second at bat DNA we'd enter the second inning with a three-nothing lead and I was feeling good to start but I myself in buying the Zone but I'd end up walking the lead off back next it bet a chance to strikeout foodie [Music] I try to throw that same pitch to Gilbert that's a bound ball and I was one strike away from getting my second out oh yeah I know my body blocked that but he checked swung there and that was the second out of the inning I was one night away from the win and Duty was gonna battle but lucky for me I had that all reliable screwball [Music] the road [Music] I hit that off the down so I was feeling good on the mound and that would end game number one after watching the two losing teams play it was time for our final game everything at stake and I Came Out Swinging this game but that would be a foul ball but I would battle in this at bet and end up taking a walk Ray would come up and hit a single and I would have a chance to give us an early lead and I would absolutely crush this ball but the wind would blow it foul oh yeah and I did that for a second swing in a row but I would hit a hard grounder and get on base with a single and that was our chance to take a lead Ray would walk to give us a one-run lead but I would ground out right after Ray would walk in another run to make it two nothing and I would hit this as a single to make it a three-nothing game but day on the mound would find the zone and he would bounce back and get ray to ground out and after hitting those foul ball homers I just really wanted that Homer and swung in a bad pitch now it was my time to pitch and I was definitely struggling to start to double to get Runners on second and third I finally got hit and I was actually rattled so I would just five pitch walk to load the bases but there was hope I found the Zone this at bet against slick and I got a three pitch strikeout and then I bounced back again today and throwing two pitch strikeout but right as I found it I lost it yet again and I would throw again a five pitch walk to slick and this would be a 3-1 game so here I was again Bases Loaded still started off with a great first pick but day was battling he took three straight balls and at this point I didn't want to walk another Runner so I threw the screwball that was a grand slam to give them a 5-3 lead the all reliable screwball did not work there and since we had a five run inning maximum we'd be coming up with only one final chance to score two and even though I battled slicked out with the great fast bar he was feeling it on the mound and Rey would come up and get dotted away and I was our final L and I was not gonna go down without a fight I battled this at bad to get on base with a walk and Rey was showing off his Blitzball experience and also fought in a bet and we had two straight walks I was now the go-ahead runner and yet again I was gonna battle to the end I fouled off some really tough pitches and I would fight to a Full Count yes he did oh yes he did and we would lose five to three my 30-day Journey was over but this journey taught me a lot about myself I've been a creator for five years now and even during this video I asked myself why do I even do it and for a long time this year I haven't been able to answer that question but while recording myself playing Blitzball in my yard I felt like a kid again the kid who just loved baseball whether it was little league Wiffle ball or video games you should feel like a kid every time you play it and I get to be that kid every day when I make videos I've realized that my purpose here is to share this love for baseball so whether I try to learn Blitzball or try to score a thousand runs that will be the show I hope my videos show why baseball is the best and maybe if I play these guys in Blitzball again I'll have my revenge foreign

Channel: Scann

Views: 305,233

Keywords: scann, scann mlb the show, blitzball, scann blitzball, scann mlb

Id: IF0AGoPQjBs

Length: 13min 34sec (814 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 20 2023