What are your favorite things about baseball?

[Docwaukee]

Marsh's triple tonight reminded me that it's one of my favorite things.  

Robbed hrs

Walk off wins.  

What are yours?  

[Lou]

The balk 

[arch stanton]

A well executed relay play that nabs a runner at the plate

The look on a guy's face as he jogs back to the dugout after being picked off at first

Hat throwing, dirt kicking arguments

left side infielders making the barehanded play on a slow roller

[Billy_Ball]

Peanuts.

[tdawg87]

The contact play.

[Capital_Dave]

Straight steals of home.

[Lou]

5 hours ago, arch stanton said:

The look on a guy's face as he jogs back to the dugout after being picked off at first

Good one. 

I also like when a rightfielder guns down a runner trying to go from first to third on a base hit. 

[Blarg]

Better still.

 

[Blarg]

In case y'all forgot what a privilege it was to have Vlad on the team. 

 

[Angels 1961]

Runner on first 2 outs B9 and batter hits ball in the gap. You get off your seat and become the 3B coach and start waving runner in. 

[Angelsjunky]

Astroturf and the designated hitter. 

One batter relievers. 

Bryce Harper.

[Stradling]

Instant replay

[Junkballer]

Gotta say it's the one-on-one battle between the pitcher/batter.  It is unique among the major sports.  The team aspect comes into play but it is contributory to that primary matchup.

[Stradling]

There’s so many things.  I loved watching Andrelton play SS. It felt like once a series he’d do something only he could do. 

[Stradling]

I liked when a pitcher tried to pitch with one eye closed, brags about it, then hits a guy with a curve ball. 

[Jason]

Playoff appearances 

[PattyD22]

I love old school stuff from the game.

A well executed hit and run where the runner breaks for 2nd and the batter hits a ball right where the spot is vacated by the 2nd baseman.  David Fletcher is a master of this.

While I don’t want to see a guy injured, I do love to see a “message” pitch delivered.  But never at a batters head.

A walk off, game winning home run is always awesome also.  Except when it’s Kendrys Morales though.

[Chuck]

7 hours ago, Dochalo said:

Marsh's triple tonight reminded me that it's one of my favorite things.  

Robbed hrs

Walk off wins.  

What are yours?  

Mine is to your first point in seeing someone fly around the bases for a triple or better yet, an inside the park home run. 

I love seeing walk-off home runs. 

A stolen base artist steal 2nd and 3rd base in the same inning. Even better, home for the trifecta. 

Hitters getting blown away with a high 90's, 100+ MPH fastball. 

[Stradling]

A triple is an amazing offensive play.  An inside the park is almost always a fluke.  

[floplag]

The mental aspect of it, the games played between pitcher and batter, runner on base, the defensive dynamics... a great throw from RF to 3B, catcher keeping runners honest, stretching hits, great baserunning, diving catches, SS in the hole, 2B up the middle, 3B bare handing a roller... and the list goes on.
As  im writing this i realize much of this really doesnt exist so much anymore which may explain my waning interest over the last few years.  I follow the angels, not so much baseball itself anymore.  The game has dulled itself down since the moneyball evolution.  Weve become much like the NFL where out of 60 minutes less than 10 is actually play, the rest is huddles and such by turning the game into walks, OBP, devaluing hitting, and taking pitches.. and all that before the near death of the running game.
I like what weve been doing this ST, i like the Maddon approach so far, lets see if hes allowed to keep it going during the season. 

[AngelsFaninGA]

Angels message boards

[Angel Dog and Beer]

I like a lot of those mentioned, and I'll add: Head's up baserunning plays where the runner catches the D napping or loofing it. 

[Taylor]

I love that you can go to a baseball game and still be completely present with the person you go with. You can't really do that with other sports. I had so many great life conversations with my dad at the ballpark, and now my wife and I get to experience the same thing (and in a couple years, my daughter).

[Dtwncbad]

[WicketMaiden]

Fletcher's at-bats: he wields a baseball bat like a light sabre.

Flashy glove work that makes you go wow - Simmons, Fletch, Trout, Iglesias, you know the sort of thing.

The visuals of a night game in a beautiful ballpark.

An Angels pitcher getting out of a bases loaded jam.

The stats.