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Mets Pitcher Kicks Baseball to 1st for the Out. AMAZING VID! watch!

sportswrap.berecruited.com — Livan Hernandez doesn't have time to pick the ball up and throw the runner out - so he kicks it to the 1st basmen... and records the out. outstanding.

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  • hirshi, on 03/29/2008, -3/+13Too bad he can't pitch with his feet.
  • iceman605, on 03/29/2008, -6/+1Ridiculous.
  • sfcitybootcamp, on 03/29/2008, -7/+1You ever seen Steve Nash dribble the basketball with his feet? puts fat Livan to shame... although the baseball is infinitely smaller.
  • johnstays44, on 03/29/2008, -5/+3oh man that was awesome. it would have been so embarrassing if he messed up.
  • johndwalsh7, on 03/29/2008, -5/+61Too bad he's pitching for the Twins, not the Mets
    • spliao, on 03/29/2008, -3/+1yeah, wrong Cuban defector...
      • sdquinn, on 03/29/2008, -1/+1It should be worth nothing el Duque did a similar play while on the Yankees. Caught the ball in his mitt after it bounced, he couldnt jar it loose so he just threw his glove to first base.
        • DephexTwin, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1Okay, so if feet were gloves, and kicking were throwing gloves, this would be very similar.
    • sdquinn, on 03/29/2008, -0/+2For what it's worth, he's on a different team every two years or so.
      • prth8machine, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1But never the Mets. His bother is on the Mets.
        • sdquinn, on 03/29/2008, -0/+2I'm aware, I know he was never on the Mets -- I'm a Mets fan. There was speculation this offseason, but I'm content with El Duque, Pelfrey, and Maine -- not even to mention Pedro or Santana.
    • SpookyPig, on 03/29/2008, -1/+6You've got Santana... Stop complaining.
      • sdquinn, on 03/29/2008, -0/+2If you're talking to me, I'm not complaining. If you knew I was a Mets fan, that's kinda creepy. Having to decide our fifth man for our rotation on two good pitchers is a great feeling.
      • acdcfanbill, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1I miss Santana already... :(
    • tas08, on 03/29/2008, -0/+2Hey! Well, I'm gonna have to digg you down cause I live in St. Paul.
    • g00dbye, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1Sorry, bro. Hernandez is with the Mets now and I couldn't be happier. You should feel the same.
    • walkie19, on 03/29/2008, -0/+0You're getting mixed up with Livan.
  • xt0xicx, on 03/29/2008, -7/+4and why wasn't that #1?
    • ricree, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1Yeah, I would love to know what was able to top that. I doubt that it was actually better, though.
      • PCloadLetterWTF, on 03/29/2008, -0/+9Alexandre Pato's goal for Brazil was number 1. The kid is 18, it was his international debut and he scored within his first 15 minutes on the field. he is the epitome of amazing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6BtXG9qb4w&feature ... theres the link if you were interested. Wether or not this gets burried as a comment I figured you wanted to know.
        • ricree, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1Thanks for the link. That was a pretty amazing goal.
  • Celeron, on 03/29/2008, -12/+9Steroids.
  • vicgp3, on 03/29/2008, -3/+8That quite possibly was the most awesome moment in baseball i've ever seen, considering i don't ever watch baseball
  • ISmokesDaPot420, on 03/29/2008, -4/+15Mirror?
  • quiznos, on 03/29/2008, -11/+3Mirror?
  • benburned, on 03/29/2008, -12/+4mirror?
    it seems that the site is down even before 100 diggs.
  • redsoxmb545, on 03/29/2008, -13/+5Wow, down already with 74 diggs?
    Mirror please.
  • Anubis2051, on 03/29/2008, -9/+3Paul O'Neill did it first...
    • bingobongony, on 03/29/2008, -1/+7But he did it by accident. And didn't get anyone out. He just kicked a perfect relay throw to hold a runner on third. He kicked it after bobbling a single, thinking that he had just lost the game. It was purely out of frustration, yet it was a perfect kick right to the second baseman and the runner on third held up.
    • AtiimKiambu, on 03/29/2008, -0/+3I really don't know why you're being dugg down. Paul O'Neill is famous for his kick. Like bingobongobingobongoboingowhatever said, it was a different situation, but I still thought your joke was funny. (And this is coming from a Mets fan who hates the Yankees).
  • stylinx, on 03/29/2008, -10/+2Mirror?
  • Dokument, on 03/29/2008, -10/+2copy of the webpage?
  • slotimus, on 03/29/2008, -13/+5Whats the Digg effect?
    • WhatInThe42o, on 03/29/2008, -0/+6The Digg effect is when a site becomes popular, but can't handle the bandwidth of the traffic now coming at it, so it crashes. A secondary Digg effect is when assholes bury your question without bothering to answer it.
  • PhoenixAvatar2, on 03/29/2008, -16/+4We know the site is down. Now stop asking for a ***** mirror. Someone will get one up eventually.
  • Hayes, on 03/29/2008, -9/+2Unfortunately, the game wasn't televised - so unless someone got it on home video, we won't see it.
  • chkdg8, on 03/29/2008, -9/+3Mirror please!!!
  • mckirkus, on 03/29/2008, -13/+6From the Star Tribune since the video is down:
    "This time, with no outs in the third inning, Johnson dropped a seemingly perfect bunt down the first-base line.
    "I'm thinking, 'I'm getting a hit,'" the speedy Johnson said.
    The 6-2, 245-pound Hernandez ambled toward the ball, and got there with Johnson a few strides from first base.
    Reaching down and flipping the ball to first seemed the only available option.
    "He probably would have ended up on his face if he did," Gardenhire said.
    So Hernandez improvised, kicking the ball about 10 feet, knee high, right into Morneau's glove ... for the out. A perfectly legal play.
    Tampa Bay first base coach George Hendrick started clapping. A crowd of 7,968 at Hammond Stadium howled.
    "Everybody in our dugout was taking their hat off and just bowing to [Hernandez]," Bartlett said. "To kick it and to hit it in the air right at Morneau's glove -- it's impossible, but he did it."
    And how about the catch?
    "Any other first baseman it probably would have hit off their knee or something," Bartlett said. "But Morneau had that hockey instinct."
    Yes, Morneau played goalie through juniors in Canada. But he'd never seen a successful kick quite like this.
    "No, because usually that's no goal in hockey," he said.
    As Hernandez walked through the clubhouse, Morneau said, "Hey, Pele!"
    The big righthander smiled. He shrugged off the play, saying he did the same thing last year for Arizona, with Tony Clark playing first base. A quick Internet search could not confirm the details, but Hernandez did not commit an error in 2007.
    "Maybe one day I miss it, and people get mad," Hernandez said. "But I'm 2-for-2."
    It's not exactly a play Gardenhire wants emphasized in pitchers fielding practice, but the manager called it an OK move, "as long as we kick it to the first baseman."

    http://www.startribune.com/sports/twins/17035351.h ...
  • Mazur, on 03/29/2008, -10/+14I find it humorous that people continue to digg it even though the site is down.
    • jackattack51, on 03/29/2008, -2/+2I just said the same exact thing. It's gotten at least 18 diggs since it's been on the front page with no views. Oh well.
    • thtroyer, on 03/29/2008, -1/+14Poor man's bookmark.
      • Mazur, on 03/29/2008, -1/+5Very true. Those damn bookmarks are so pricey these days. It's the economy, let me tell ya.
      • lebatte, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1Right on.
      • Mpwns, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1i only bookmark sites i know im gonna go to at least once a day. so digging a broken vid is something i wanna see but i dont wanna bookmark it. so so i can keep tabs on it.
    • DanSheldon, on 03/29/2008, -1/+1It is quite possible that people saw this in person, saw it on tv, on another web site, etc
      Digg is not the source of media and content but a collection of pointers to media and content.
      • MAJORstrasser, on 03/29/2008, -0/+2I don't know that there'd be any others, considering the size of the stadium, but I for one saw it in person. One hell of a play, especially seeing it from the second row behind home plate. And the roar of the crowd afterwards... my god. It sounded more like 40,000 people instead of 7500.
        • Mazur, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1Hmmmm You should have had a camera.
          • MAJORstrasser, on 03/29/2008, -0/+2If I could've whipped out my cell phone fast enough, I would've. Actually, I did after the fact, figuring I could record the instant replay... until I remembered this is a tiny spring training field and there is no instant replay.
      • Mazur, on 03/29/2008, -0/+2Dan, It may be quite possible, but it is more plausible that they just clicked on the link because it has an interesting title. Game, set, match.
        • ricree, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1I've done that before when something looked interesting but I didn't have the time to look at it or the site was down. Digg sorely needs a bookmark without digging function.
  • norsurfit, on 03/29/2008, -8/+1Wow...that was great!
  • clarity661, on 03/29/2008, -21/+3mirror: http://tinyurl.com/2zuzjr
  • RegalGSX, on 03/29/2008, -11/+3I just ejaculated.
    • inigomntoya, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1Over a website that was severely crippled by the Digg effect? Really?
  • AAK15, on 03/29/2008, -2/+21has anyone asked for a mirror yet?
  • DrewG7, on 03/29/2008, -9/+4OMG!!!!!one (to non existent video)
  • foofightrs777, on 03/29/2008, -8/+3I think the poster has Livian Hernandez (MIN) confused with Johan Santana who was traded to the Mets from the Twins this off season.
    • foofightrs777, on 03/29/2008, -1/+3Why are people digging me down? You cant even see the video. Article from the AP:

      But Hernandez really stole the show with his third-inning decision to kick a bunt attempt by Tampa Bay’s Elliot Johnson toward first base in a last-ditch attempt to get an out. The ball went directly into Justin Morneau’s glove, taking a hit away from Johnson.

      http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap?gid=280326109&pr ...
    • wiihuck, on 03/29/2008, -0/+2Or they're confusing him with El Duque...Livan Hernandez's brother....who pitches for the mets.
  • charlie55, on 03/29/2008, -4/+1a pitcher who actually plays for the mets, duaner sanchez, once fielded a ball by throwing his glove in the air to catch it. unfortunately that is not allowed under the rules of baseball. feel free to go find that video. he played for the dodgers at the time.
  • Beanstudd2, on 03/29/2008, -1/+8mirror or it didn't happen.
  • dgreichert, on 03/29/2008, -2/+10buried for not being prepared for the digg effect
  • iamdan1, on 03/29/2008, -5/+1Last year Julian Tavarez for the Red Sox fielded a soft hit and bowled it to first. He had been having issues over throwing first, so he just rolled it along the ground to first base.
  • brendanryder, on 03/29/2008, -8/+6buried as inaccurate.

    No video.
  • SpookyPig, on 03/29/2008, -17/+2Mirror:
    http://tinyurl.com/3d6w45
    • SpookyPig, on 03/29/2008, -2/+1Looks like someone already got dugg to hell for this joke.
      I'll lie in this nice hole for you all.
    • dotcomet, on 03/29/2008, -1/+1haha
  • thisissami, on 03/29/2008, -4/+3seems pretty accurate... it's just something i'd like to see a video of!

    http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap?gid=280326109&pr ...
    http://minnesota.twins.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ym ...
    http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/newsstan ...
    • BransonLAN, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1Story is accurate. Digg post is not. Supposed to have video.
  • harryterry, on 03/29/2008, -5/+2blah....
  • vagrantwade, on 03/29/2008, -4/+3As a Twins fan...I am offended. I will miss you Santana...
  • hhhmethu, on 03/29/2008, -3/+2SPORTS!
  • ki11a2k, on 03/29/2008, -3/+1looks like it's back up...

    dugg!
  • HotDogBun, on 03/29/2008, -8/+7I like how when it gets to the #1, a soccer highlight, the video just ends. Nobody really wants to see a soccer highlight.
    • sagat, on 03/29/2008, -3/+6Um, except for everyone who isn't American, dumbass.
  • nobleexperiment, on 03/29/2008, -3/+2After all the smoke and mirrors, I waited 2 hours for that? A web gem number two for a kick to an out. You coulda rick rolled me with that one.

    As for Elliott Johnson, he could run faster. On the bright side, he did run faster than Wiki Gonzalez's embarassing slow run to first base against the mets four or five years ago that resulted in a triple play.

    Nice trick but not all for what it was worth.
  • norsurfit, on 03/29/2008, -0/+15Direct link to video
    http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id=e037812 ...
  • lalilulelo, on 03/29/2008, -1/+4What the hell was one?! Anyone have a link to the video?
  • blakebrentwood, on 03/29/2008, -2/+4Kinda disappointed to see such an irrelevant sport as high school girls basketball make the #2 spot.
    • theragu40, on 03/29/2008, -3/+1Kinda disappointed that it's still ok to consider a girl's sport somehow less of a sport. Let me guess - you'd like NASCAR to get more coverage, right? Did you watch the #2 clip? It was ridiculous, and completely deserved being on there.
  • Jerryskid02, on 03/29/2008, -6/+2Good Lord I hate baseball
  • Mnevis, on 03/29/2008, -0/+4That #2 clip would have been better if she had been able to dunk.
    • DephexTwin, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1That about sums up women's basketball.
  • Wandel, on 03/29/2008, -1/+2Coming from a country that's in the World, but yet doesn't have a team competing in the World Series, anyone care to explain why this is worth watching?
    • redfan, on 03/29/2008, -2/+1Most countries don't qualify for the World Cup either.

      P.S. Pato > YOU
      • Wandel, on 03/29/2008, -0/+2Well, at least they get a chance to qualify for the World Cup.
  • TwiztedDezign, on 03/29/2008, -5/+2Pffft!.... We do crazier ***** with our feet all the time in Football (Soccer). Nothing to see here people. Move along.
    • Braxford, on 03/30/2008, -0/+1Agree. I was more annoyed at the fact the movie cut off before i could see number 1, wtf?!?!
  • Enjia, on 03/29/2008, -1/+4ya that was a let down
  • Andersklasen, on 03/30/2008, -0/+0Livan in the "ace" on the Twin's staff. That's why he is not wearing a Met's uniform. Check your info before posting, man.
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