Show HN: Passed ball or wild pitch?

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This is really cool! Are the sets of three predefined, or are they getting pulled randomly each time? Also, is there some sort of you used to get the info (date, scoring call, video URL) for each play, or did you manually scrape it?

Thanks! They're getting pulled randomly each time. So far I've been finding videos and adding data manually; it would be interesting to try to get some of the data from some combination of the mlb.com APIs and the YouTube APIs. We'll see!

So far the hardest part has been finding videos appropriate for the companion site - http://hitorerror.com/. I can't seem to hit upon appropriate search terms; I've tried "almost made the play up the middle" and whatnot.

Ohh cool! I knew the one with Bill Buckner already :)

Haha I put that one in there for a buddy of mine who's a big Sox fan :-)

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