That was pretty good

That's how you do it.

He went all Mike Scioscia on him.

The runner looked safe to me. Strahan hit him with his shoulder, not his glove.

I'd have thought catchers normally come out pretty well when they have enough time to get set and check their email before the runner arrives.

I was all set to read a bunch of posts about "Let's get away from our neanderthal roots", but good for the catcher. The runner is going to try and blast the catcher, then the catcher should be able to go Albert Belle on him.

Almost all MLB players that are willing to crash into catchers are pretty big dudes so I don't think the DBacks are going to have some sort of incredible edge because of this guy behind the plate.

The runner looked safe to me. Strahan hit him with his shoulder, not his glove.

He hit him with his shoulder but he also got the glove on him.

The runner looked safe to me. Strahan hit him with his shoulder, not his glove.

Pause at 0:13. As the runner is reeling backward from the shoulder tackle, Strahan tags him, hard, full in the face.

Wendell Kim is the third base coach for a rookie team? Who knew?

That's how you do it.

from a technical aspect he did it wrong, catchers are taught to put the arm out make the tag then pull the mit back to your chest so as to protect the ball from the collision. He lower his shoulder then extended his arms, which if the runner was a bit bigger (ok a lot bigger) he could have separated the ball from the glove by just naturally going head first toward the plate.

From the non-technical aspect those are really fun plays to watch. My best friend in college was a smallish shortstop and I had hit a double and was rounding second going towards third watching the play at the plate and my friend bounced off the catcher. I was able to give him crap for....well if he were next to me right now I would still be doing it.

I really like the arm pumping of the guy behind the screen, center-right, about 5 seconds in.

There was a play like this in a rec league softball league I was in. I was playing left and had thrown out a runner at the plate by a mile. He tried to take out the catcher. In the words of Lewis the alligator.."it didn't end well". Our catcher played offensive tackle at a division 1 college and was thus far better equipped for the collision.

Oh, and don't you hate pants

That was pretty great. Too bad Trahan is unlikely to catch in an MLB game, he will likely move to the outfield.

i'm not a fan of the collision at home plate but it's hard not to watch and enjoy a 'he got jacked up!' moment. the only other base you can overrun is first, and that's always a force, but imagine how bad ass the game would be if a tag was mandatory on routine grounders. when the XLB starts, that should be their first rule change.

i'd like to see fewer collisions and less incentives for creating contact like this, but as long as the umps don't care if the catcher camps in the basepath, and knocking the ball loose by knocking the catcher unconscious is rewarded with a run, whattaya gonna do?

What else would you expect from a guy with the same name as an armored fighting vehicle?

My softball rec league prohibits contact at the plate entirely. Not really that hard to enforce, and I think it makes for a better game.

As alluded to above, who the hell sent that runner home?

Too bad Trahan is unlikely to catch in an MLB game, he will likely move to the outfield.

I pity those fences.

I really like the arm pumping of the guy behind the screen, center-right, about 5 seconds in.

Good call--the triple-pump, exuberant yet contained within his own personal space. He and his buddy are the only ones who appear to even take notice of the play.

Why is everybody reacting like they've never seen a catcher obliterate a baserunner in the bigs?

Because it's not the bigs, and I don't have the Ocho on my cable package.

There was a play like this in a rec league softball league I was in. I was playing left and had thrown out a runner at the plate by a mile. He tried to take out the catcher. In the words of Lewis the alligator.."it didn't end well". Our catcher played offensive tackle at a division 1 college and was thus far better equipped for the collision.

I had somebody try and take me out at 3rd once. Why I don't know as I had at least 80 pounds on him (I am tall, he was not). I did fall backwards on my butt, but it was really only because I just wasn't expecting him to try and go through me. I had the ball in plenty of time and was a good two feet in front of the bag waiting, he had at least 3 or 4 steps to slow down.

There was a play like this in a rec league softball league I was in. I was playing left and had thrown out a runner at the plate by a mile. He tried to take out the catcher. In the words of Lewis the alligator.."it didn't end well".

The highlight of my intramural softball career in college involved playing catcher and surviving a HP collision. Flyball hit to moderately deep CF and runner on 3rd tagging up. I don't know what kind of experience the CF had, but I started to hear the ball around second base as it was on a direct line to my face. I was more scared of missing the ball and having my face crushed in by the throw, but I caught it cleanly, turned toward the tagging runner, and was immediately knocked on my ass by him. Held onto the ball, got the out to end the inning, and did a celebratory Pete Rose spike of the ball on home plate.