Kyle Higashioka gets crossed up but makes a lead-saving play, a breakdown

new york yankees

but he has become garrett cole's

personal catcher meaning he catches call

whenever cole pitches even if it's a

playoff game even if he can hit

even if he can't hit he's catching

garrett cole and this is the play i want

to talk about i'm going to show it to

you first

and then we'll get to it it's a

curveball higgy thinks it's a fastball

so he gets crossed up

but he comes down and makes the catch

anyway it's really

impressive he thinks he's getting a 99

mile per hour fastball

and then the ball goes down on him he

has to react just like hitters and we

see them swing and miss

all the time but let's get to the start

of this this is where this

came into play it's four to three

yankees they're up one run but the rays

have the tying run

on third base second base is open runner

on first base

and you have g man choi up and i'm gonna

do a whole video later

all about this match-up these two dudes

because g-man choi

absolutely crushes garrett cole it's uh

it's one of the cooler things about

baseball it's one of the more

frustrating

frustrating things about baseball so

because

cole gets dominated by choi he doesn't

want to give him anything

in the zone to hit here at all

he's gonna go away from the zone but

there's a runner on third so if he

bounces the ball in the dirt

you have to worry about that runner

coming home and scoring if it's a wild

pitch or a pass ball

but higgy gives him the confidence to

just bounce this in the dirt to choy

and choi lays off and higgy makes a nice

block you got to trust your catcher

to throw that pitch to try and get him

to swing and miss higgy does a really

good job getting over and blocking the

pitch

good job higgy decent pitch cole they

still want to stay away from he didn't

bite at the curve ball okay maybe he'll

chase a high fastball out of the zone

we're not giving him anything in the

zone because he crushes call

they go way up top higgy jumps up and

catches it

and now you can see coal kind of look to

the dugout and say why don't we just

walk this dude

it's 2-0 there's an open base and he

crushes me

so they have a little mound meeting they

decide to walk

call what i think happens here is when

higgy and cole talk cole tells them like

i'm gonna open them up with a curveball

i'm gonna throw first pitch curveball i

think they decide that

there you'll see why but first gmn choi

gets to smirk a little bit and like

pretty cool best pitcher in the world

scared to face me now

you see cole look in his hat in his hat

has all the sequences of signs it's one

two three four five and then what that

means

and you can see him say five okay we're

doing five

but the sequence doesn't get in come

into play here

because like i said higgy doesn't give a

single sign all he does is not at call

yep throw that first pitch curve you

told me you're gonna throw i don't need

to give you a sign

so here's the first pitch curve really

nice pitch in there for a strike

and now cole's looking in and higgy's

given the signs

and i you can see his fingers here you

know he's going through a sequence of

signs

so when they say five that means they're

sucked and it's either out

plus one outs minus one there's

something to for

cole to know which finger actually he

should be paying attention to

but because they didn't use the sequence

on the first pitch because cole just

said

i'm gonna throw the curve right away and

they didn't have to put down any signs

it seems like cole forgot that they're

using sequence number five

which you know we saw him put into his

memory bank

a little earlier five but then he throws

the first pitch it's a nice curveball

and now he's going to the second pitch

and he's looking into the signs

and i think cole forgets that they

switched it to five and he reverts back

to what it

was before so he throws the curveball

higgy

i mean if that if that if that gets by

higgy

man i mean the runner on third scores

the other two runners move up you lose

the force out the game is now

tied it's a run saving lead saving

really athletic play by higgy and you

you don't expect catchers to do that

you don't expect them to be able to do

that that's funny now higgy's like wait

what the [ __ ]

how'd we get crossed up wait hold on

no i was right five dude we're on five

yeah okay five i mean just another look

at it

his glove was fully open he swan dives

down then they go 99 mile per hour

fastball up top

100 mile per hour fastball and he gets

out of the bases loaded jam

and oh yeah earlier in this game if

we're talking about higgy

he steps into the box against blake

snell as the nine hitter as the personal

catcher he sees two curve balls right

away and that guy says no swing if he

rings him up there

i think it's a different at-bat they

have the reliever up in the pen

because this is snell's last hitter

probably that's what i thought at the

time because he's facing the nine-hole

catcher

1-1 pitch two curveballs in a row snell

tries to dot a fastball

and higgy goes boom to tie the game this

was

prior to the other thing [ __ ] miss

that down

i think that's what snell said like you

missed that down because he

wants to go high fast while snow likes

to high fastballs gleber's all excited

higgy had himself a game and so did this

camera man i think this is more

impressive than anything else we've seen

look at that tracking shot let's do it

again look at this tracking shot

super wide gets the pitcher and the

batter in

shot then finds the ball in the air

gets a little closer to it zooms back

out to see where it land

cameraman kudos just just really

well done and then i love this gary

sanchez he's sitting

because higgy is the personal catcher

for call he daps up his boy he loves it

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