knotty grove
This is what it looks like to be on the receiving end of a foul ball at a baseball game.
Be careful out there! But who is responsible for this hit?
What is the name of the batter?
Puzzle by Giancarlo, Bellingcat
Video link: https://youtu.be/THeJFjKhb9Y?si=TiXdeCXr06jS_ans
fallow fractal
|| Done. Too ashamed to tell how i did..||
glass stump
|| Done. Too ashamed to tell how i did..||
well now you have to tell us..
cursive lintel
|| it says the name somewhere just look closer||
glass stump
||yeah that's why I want to know :D||
jolly ridge
||Change the quality to 4k and you can see the name and his number||
knotty grove
well now you have to tell us..
||The fan jerseys belong to Toronto blue jay players, and the stadium says Rogers so Rogers centre Toronto, been trying to figure out who the away team is||
knotty grove
||Change the quality to 4k and you can see the name and his number||
Oh no way lemme try
knotty grove
||Change the quality to 4k and you can see the name and his number||
Lmaooo thanks ||as usual occams razoresque approaches work better than the long way around 😭||
jolly ridge
yup, always ||check photos for EXIF data and watch videos in the highest possible resolution!||
glass stump
Lmaooo thanks ||as usual occams razoresque approaches work better than the long ...
||For what it's worth I started off with a silly assumption that the answer wouldn't literally be right there 🫠 ||
knotty grove
I've been doing the ||exif ever since I missed using it in the first week and did the long route, now this, lessons learnt. I had narrowed it down to Chicago White Sox because of the b&w jersey color but brute forcing batsmen names wasn't ideal, 4k to the rescue||
fallow fractal
I've been doing the ||exif ever since I missed using it in the first week and di...
|| i brute forced it...||
jolly ridge
Now the real question is... what was his seat number?
knotty grove
Now the real question is... what was his seat number?
Brb
knotty grove
Now the real question is... what was his seat number?
||Section 134 around row 35 seat 3 or 4 maybe?||
jolly ridge
||Section 134 around row 35 seat 3 or 4 maybe?||
||I think it's row 28 (check the numbers across the aisle)||
knotty grove
Yep you're right, so ||section 134, row 28, seat 3 or 4|| new challenge 🙌🏾
burnt harbor
||The fan jerseys belong to Toronto blue jay players, and the stadium says Roger...
|| wasted so much time searching for Blue Jay games in summer to find the away team before the 4K hint ||
half spruce
How do you actually ||zoom in a youtube video? The 4k hint is neat but I can't actually see anythiing on this Jersey.||
glass stump
How do you actually ||zoom in a youtube video? The 4k hint is neat but I can't a...
Not strictly necessary for this, but ||if doing OSINT on a video where the details really matter, I prefer to download the video raw with something like yt-dlp, then right click capture screenshot to extract the raw frame I want, then you can do what you like in regards to zooming, changing colour levels, etc||
just a preference for that sort of thing to make sure I'm working with the best I can get
half spruce
Okay, here we go: ||Quickly googled the names on the Jersey in Front which are Toronto Blue Jays players. Check their Stadium and, yup it's a home game, confirmed by the logo on the pitch itself. Went through gallerys of MLB Uniforms to figure out the other team, landing on the Chicago White Sox. They only had three games against the Blue Jays this season, so I go for those. ||
||The Jersey for the pitcher reads something like 24 (or rather is most likely to read, the other pitchers numbers for those game look too different from what I can decipher), while the batter is 3-something. The former narrows it to the game on the third day (I have no idea about baseball), where he only had three pitches. Only two of these have fouls, Fletcher (No. 7) and DeLoach (No. 31), and there we go.||
So, to make it more precise, we see the ||May 22, 2024|| game between the ||Toronto Blue Jays|| and the ||Chicago White Sox|| ||top of the 9th|| Inning, ||Blue Jays|| batting, ||3rd|| batter, ||1st|| pitch.
This rests on the assumption this video is from the ||most recent season||, so I search the stadium for clues of that, eventually coming across ||the scoreboard with the batters name||
Goddamnit.
Also going of that scoreboard, I might be entirely wrong, because if I my assumption is correct, ||the first number there should be 4, as it is his 4th at base, not his 3rd?|| But again, my understanding of baseball is rather limited, so I might be reading something wrong, because ||DeLoach has only been with the White Sox this season||? Can someone who knows Baseball explain this?
fallow fractal
Okay, here we go: ||Quickly googled the names on the Jersey in Front which are T...
||I think that you deserves a 🏆 for finding not only the game but the inning and the specific pitch.. ||
wooden lion
Okay, here we go: ||Quickly googled the names on the Jersey in Front which are T...
@surreal cave the post we've been waiting for. A time to explain baseball
surreal cave
Heck yeah
surreal cave
Okay, here we go: ||Quickly googled the names on the Jersey in Front which are T...
This is the canon answer
Congratulations!
The purpose of this challenge was ||to learn the most that you can about baseball, and that's the answer that maximizes baseball learning. So, welld done||
wooden lion
|| join us in the sports channel on opening day ||
tardy oxide
I didn't think to use exif (new to image/video stuff and it's my first challenge season) nor did i zoom in and I have a small screen so none of those details y'all saw made it into my search. I used the visible ||stadium name|| and was able to figure out the home team ||uniforms,|| and searched for teams ||that wore the other uniforms.|| i know from a former baseball nerd coworker that baseball fans are huge into stats and records so i knew i'd find a site like ||baseball savant|| to search for who was playing what when. i left it at the current year and entered in the stadium, the two teams ||based on the uniforms,|| that it was ||a foul ball, || that i was looking for ||the batter|| and it was still a lot of names. i then noticed that ||the batter was a leftie|| and that took me down to ||five names and one was a winner|| i bet if i was better at baseball i could have used the data in the video and in the site to ||figure out where the ball went to narrow down the names based on the little diagrams for the fouls they have? (at least i think that's what those were trying to show) that site has w/o guessing them all one by one|| but i hit my baseball limit for my life today
did have a false start looking for ||foul balls that hit people|| and that apparently happens pretty often to some crazy results
surreal cave
I didn't think to use exif (new to image/video stuff and it's my first challenge...
Yes!!! Also correct as it also maximizes baseball knowledge... Well done!
signal willow
I am afraid I did not maximize my baseball knowledge, I just ||figured out that the uniforms meant the person at bat was NOT from the blue jays||, then squinted hard at ||the display behind the batter, figured it was a 31 at the start, and used this extremely useful resource to find names that looked about right https://aws.baseball-reference.com/friv/numbers.cgi?number=31&year=2024||
signal willow
Okay, here we go: ||Quickly googled the names on the Jersey in Front which are T...
this is amazing work btw
queen oar
Stadium and home team were quite easy to find using the names of (famous?) players that are visible on the walls in the background.
The interior of the stadium also matched pictures from ||2024 (there was a renovation before) so I knew that it was the 2024 season. || Finding the game with the right jersey color combination of home and guest teams was a bit harder, but googling “<year> <home team name> games by jersey color” lead to a helpful website.
past canyon
