Baseball in Finland: Here you throw yourself headfirst into the abyss – sport

It’s about to go down! What happened there? You are watching the Finnish variant of baseball. And Hyvinkään Tahko’s Teemu Nurmio pulls off an exemplary diver trying to get hold of the ball somehow. The peculiarity of Finnish baseball. The field is almost an island and is completely surrounded by rivers and relatively steep slopes. Scenes like this one are relatively common, which is why cameras were installed on the water as a precaution. In this way, the viewers can analyze every dive crash, no matter how funny, with relish. Crash pilot Nurmio is fine after the belly flop. Soaking wet, but that’s just part of this sport.