Home Run Derby

One of the best things about baseball is that with so many at-bats in a season … whatever you can think of is probably going to happen (like when that bat stood up on its end after an at bat a couple years ago).  So it kinda surprises me that very few baseballs ever hit the TV cameras around MLB ballparks.

But that’s not the case in the other fields around America, where cameras are taking a beating from baseballs …  whether it be batted or thrown.

Here’s a clip from the Little League World Series a couple years ago.  Take it away, Brent Musburger.

That’s not the only time a pitch has hit a camera behind the plate.  Here’s another pitcher who’s throwing …. juuust a bit outside

Here’s a Foul ball taking out the cameraman …

This next guy must have been trying to hit the camera. 

Seriously … Why else would you set up a camera in a batting cage?

I’m not sure why these guys are playing baseball during French Class …

Sometimes the cameraman takes a beating … here’s a setup where FOX Sports cameraman Darrin Pierce gets nailed in the head by pitch thrown by Arizona State softball pitcher Erica Beach. 

She shattered a piece of plexiglass supposedly protecting Pierce.  I think Pierce was wearing his bad idea jeans that day.

But this is my favorite of them all – and it doesn’t even involve a camera getting destroyed … watch as some guy’s camera bag makes the catch of the century on a pop foul behind home plate.

That’s simply awesome.

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