Antonio Alfonseca's extra finger wasn't HitFlix's pitching secret

The archival baseball profile revisits a Marlins World Series winner whose fastball, not his unusual grip, did the work.

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The 6 Finger Pitcher The MLB Feared..

The extra finger never touched the ball. That is the useful little correction at the heart of HitFlix's most-watched new upload, "The 6 Finger Pitcher The MLB Feared..", which has reached roughly 95,000 views.

The clips channel uses archival footage and photos to tell Antonio Alfonseca's story, holding his name until late in the short documentary. Before that reveal come the baseball credentials: scoreless relief work during the Florida Marlins' World Series-winning rookie season, followed by a season in which he recorded more saves than Trevor Hoffman or Mariano Rivera. The narrator makes clear that his extra finger was merely along for the ride; his mid-90s fastball supplied the trouble for hitters.

That profile was part of ten uploads, with baseball's unlikely participants providing another recurring thread. "How A 59 Year Old Joined The MLB" currently draws the most daily views of any HitFlix video, and had a slightly larger opening-day audience than the Alfonseca upload. Elsewhere, a teenage pitcher facing Babe Ruth and a short-statured player supplied more history-led hooks.

HitFlix added about 1,000 subscribers over the week, while daily views are running well above their usual level. Among nearby sports channels, sdpn is also seeing elevated daily viewing, while ALL BALL BABY! is much quieter than usual. For HitFlix, the strongest new audience belongs to a baseball biography that makes its subject's pitching achievements more interesting than the title's anatomical curiosity.

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More from HitFlixThis week on the channel +106K views this weekBaseball's past and robot umps share HitFlix's catch-up shelfWith no new uploads, the baseball clips channel added about 106,000 views across its existing collection.Channel: HitFlix · Story of October 13, 2026 Also in American sports creatorsVideo taking off 6.4x its usual first dayJosh Pate defends the CFP logic separating Alabama and TennesseeHis rankings reaction draws an unusually large audience, while viewers question whether head-to-head results are being applied consistently.Channel: Josh Pate's College Football Show · Story of November 12, 2026 A different discovery todayVideo taking off 23x its usual first dayJimmy Kimmel takes on Hegseth's "doozy" of a press conferenceThe monologue moves from a Thomas Massie impeachment filing to Trump phoning C-SPAN, then closes with a parody trailer for Melania: The Series.Channel: Jimmy Kimmel Live · Story of November 12, 2026

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The videos drawing views on HitFlix right now

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The numbers

Here is how HitFlix's week looks across views, subscribers and new uploads.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Ev Hand

9,449,948

Almost Athletes with Dude…

1,880,746

Numbers On The Board

1,176,771

sdpn

1,129,525

HitFlix

847,292

Josh Moore

684,273

Hockey Tutorial

140,375

ALL BALL BABY!

103,500

On the bench

23,127

subscribers

154,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

88,574,170

views per day

166,802

typical day: 98,057

first-day views of each video posted this week

The 6 Finger Pitcher The MLB Feared..

54,208

How A 59 Year Old Joined The MLB

58,788

How 1 Ground Ball RUINED A Player’s Life

36,900

The 5ft6 Player MLB Fears..

38,614

This 17 Year Old Girl Struck Out Babe R…

23,711

20 BANNED Things In The MLB

28,608

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Hockey Tutorial

219,000

Josh Moore

208,000

Numbers On The Board

204,000

ALL BALL BABY!

199,000

sdpn

194,000

Almost Athletes with Dude…

188,000

Ev Hand

178,000

On the bench

175,000

HitFlix

154,000

As of November 12, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.