Game Used Hit Baseball Collection

[Swoboda4]

Ha! Got any more?! Talk about funny.

[cjmezz]

Four Consecutive Trout Hits over a 4 game span. 2 Singles and 2 Doubles

[Swoboda4]

CJMEZZ, those four are great. A fresh crop from this year.

[Swoboda4]

And the hits keep on coming.

[helf35]

I have noticed a lot of strike out balls become labeled as fouls to the screen or pitches in the dirt to the following batter.

[lakeerie92]

I have noticed a lot of strike out balls become labeled as fouls to the screen or pitches in the dirt to the following batter.

I can definitely attest to the fact that K baseballs are much harder to get than hits. Pitchers fairly commonly throw hits out of play because they don't want to use that baseball anymore. I talked to Andrew Cashner about it and joked with him that he should throw out all of the strike out baseballs and he said that I was crazy, those are the best baseballs and they want to keep using them. Third out K's get thrown in the stands by the catcher normally so the authenticators really have to be on their game to get strike out baseballs by following them through multiple at bats.

[Swoboda4]

I have noticed a lot of strike out balls become labeled as fouls to the screen or pitches in the dirt to the following batter.

That's why researching a game used ball beyond the initial description will more often than not, reveal a lot more. Re:The Andrelton Simmons triple above was used in a strikeout the batter before, pitched at one point 99 mph, and was played by Stanton in the field(all not mention in the MLB authentication).

[salukidave]

A couple questions...

I noticed none of the pictured hit balls are signed? Any particular reason?

I have a Paul Konerko hit ball. I want to have it inscribed "Hit # 2,204." Would you also add an "RBI # 1,351" inscription?

[helf35]

That's why researching a game used ball beyond the initial description will more often than not, reveal a lot more. Re:The Andrelton Simmons triple above was used in a strikeout the batter before, pitched at one point 99 mph, and was played by Stanton in the field(all not mention in the MLB authentication).

I agree, for my benefit I have found several Chris Sale Strike out balls. I have even picked up one from his 1 hitter on mothers day in 12' or 13' cant remember the year I will have to look. It was actually labeled pitch in the dirt and the only pitch in the dirt was for strike 3. You could see on mlb tv that the catcher flipped it to the ball boy and got a new ball. I will write down who fouled it back and inning ect when I go to a game so I can try and pick it up later. I found a few last year from his 15K game against the cubs and one was a Bryant K.