How to steal home in L.L. baseball guaranteed to work.

Stealing home is one of the most exciting, yet difficult moves in baseball, but when this situation presents itself, you can steal home and easily every time you try.

Using the Little League World Series 2014 video clips, I show you a situation that is very common in youth baseball, even at the upper levels. When this situation occurs and you notice it, you can perform that most exciting steal attempt without failing.

[MJHBaseball]

Also, there are several other examples that are much better in later videos we posted since then. I can't believe this video actually as over 400K views????

[marcellopez]

Wow my kid is now the best stealer on the team now thanks to this video

[DialloKreed]

I used to teach this in LL. I felt guilty post coaching since it's not really teaching them how the game is played in the big leagues. However, when you think about it, pitchers are always trying to pick of runners "sleeping". Catchers are trying to back pick. So why shouldn't base runners take advantage of pitcher/catcher sleepy moments?

[KJclimbing]

Another thing to know, my dad told me and he played until college, if the catcher is throwing lobs or "rainbows" back to the pitcher that is a great time to steal, right when he throws the ball. The ball will travel slowly to the pitcher and that will give you a chance to steal to 2nd or 3rd base.

[riccantu]

I did this move as a kid in several leagues. you are correct. It works!

[CharlesHenkel]

Nobody ever steals home in this video.

[nadrud]

I used to do this move all the time in travel ball and little league. You can do it by aggressively taking off to home and stopping. The pitcher will get nervous and shaken up from you threatening to steal home. After he walks a batter or throws a few balls he typically gets discouraged... he will start to look at the ground. The way you do it aggressively is when you turn to return to 3rd base for the x# time the pitcher will look away to the rubber. instead of hurrying back to 3rd do a smooth 360 and then continue to home plate. Its almost a war of attrition. I used to steal home a dozen times or so a season.

The reason the aggressive approach works at this level is because pitchers at that age are used to players overshooting the lead after the pitch and getting thrown out (but never having the kahones to actually steal home). Many times the pitcher will overthrow the 3rd baseman and you can pretty much walk to home after that. If you act like you respect his ability to throw you out at 3rd then he will become complacent that you aren't going to execute the run to home or take such a big lead.

[thenut]

My coach told me to do this on the throw back to the pitcher and i was safe the opposing team was shocked that you can actually do that.

[kribo]

i personally have stolen home on a throw back and it was one of my greatest moments

[floridaping]

I had done this after a passed ball in my League against the best team, the story goes like this. The score is 3-4 and there is a wild pitch my teammate scores tying the game and the catcher gets it and throws it back to the pitcher. The pitcher then rushes to the mound without looking at me knowing that in LL the pitcher reaching the mound means no runners can go, that's if the runner is on the base or not stealing, so I take advantage of his knowledge and steal home, he thinks it is illegal but the umpire calls me safe and the game is over. #Walkoffhomesteal

[connorhiggins]

I'm an excellent baserunner, and during my travel season I stole home about 10-15 times by going right when the catcher releases the ball, second and third are easy

[captaincruloc]

I did this with a kid on our fall team last year. He'd get the third and we'd give each other a look, a slight nod. He knew to go if the catcher got lazy, didn't look, and tossed it back to the pitcher. He'd leave as soon as the catcher was committed to the throw back to the pitcher. Kid was 5 out 5 on that. That MLB player went on the throw back to the pitcher.

[nickmangiapane]

I'm in little league baseball and I did not know about this I am a very fast runner so I love to steal thanks because this video will help me steal third or possibly home

[ajpartridge]

This did work for me. I was on third with one of our worst hitters up, and as soon as the pitcher turned away I started running and he rushed the throw and scored easily

[kevinbaker]

It also works well if you have a runner on second and that runner does something to grab the pitchers attention for a split second as he turns around.

[myleswall]

I stole home this way and it worked perfectly!

[bryandorneman]

Yah I’m a slower runner and I’ve used this strategy at least 5 times probably more I did it once to win a game it rly works

[henrycortez]

What I did to counter this…
1) after the pitch my catcher would fake a throw to drive the runner back to third
2) instead of receiving the ball in front of the pitcher’s mound, my pitcher would move diagonally towards 3rd base about halfway. The catcher would then throw to the pitcher with the shortstop backing up the throw. The pitcher would then have the ball in his throwing hand ready to make a play at home as he walked back to the mound, all the while paying attention to the runner. Nobody stole home on us.

[DavidEmerling]

This type of stuff happens rarely in high levels of play. You can probably count on _one_ hand how many times runners advance on the throw back to the pitcher. And that's saying something considering 30 MLB teams play a 162-game schedule. This tactic only works on inattentive fielders. It becomes more effective if the catcher throws the ball back to the pitcher with a high arc instead of throwing it back with some authority. When the bases are 90-ft apart, this tactic goes out the window.

[blackhoodie]

This helped my coach timed stealing home in 4 seconds