This could easily be the best catch EVER considering how far he had to run, how high he jumped and flipping over a fence totally disregarding the fact that he could have suffered a major injury. The timing involved made the catch miraculous.
Pause at 1:02 and look at the faces in the crowd I was at this game and had a perfect view from right field it was without a doubt the most incredible baseball play I have ever experienced in person
This is basically escorting a homerun outta the park. You don't land your ass in fair territory - on the field - IN PLAY - "snatch it back"...it's not an out. The rulemakers are just stupid.
No watch the best mlb catches that didn't count and there is multiple times when a great catch didn't count. Including a catch where Betts caught a ball in the same place and he caught it well inside the wall but couldn't stop and fell over. They challenged and it was counted as a home run.
It's amazing that announcers, umpires, etc, claim that this kind of catch is an out. IT'S A HOMERUN UNLESS THE OUTFIELDER SNATCHES IT BACK INTO THE FIELD OF PLAY, PEOPLE!! Why not just let an outfielder stand on the other side of the fence & catch it? This is a dumb call & is totally unfair to the hitter.
D Me, then now we have to take away all foul ball catches in the stands because it is the same exact thing. He was in when he caught it and fell out. Are you dumb?
- kalebp2430 - Screw that. If they don't touch-down in the field-of-play, they're just escorting the homerun out. And,I'm brighter than you could ever hope to be, since you asked.
Not only that I saw Kenny make a Willie Mays catch over the shoulder in the deepest corner of Fenway Park. My father was with me and he saw both! He said Kenny's was more incredible. But kudo's to Austin!!!!!!
Otis Nixon is the winner. Long route, straight, no adjustments, best jump off wall, highest catch. All the others make up the top 5 of all time for sure
Can someone explain how this was not a home run? The ball left the park. Had he caught it and landed in play, then it'd be an out. But the ball ended up over the wall.
As long as the player is in the field of play starting to make the catch it counts. Does not matter where the player lands with the ball. Its just how it is. This sort of catch happens from time to time when a player lands in a dugout that isn't the field of play but its a catch. Players wouldn't attempt crazy catches if they had to be in the filed of play to consider it a catch thus an out. Its not worth the risk.
Listen people, in baseball, if a ball is caught before touching anything, it's an out. That's called baseball, it's not a home run because he caught it, if it had fallen out, it would have been a home run. But this tells you that the people saying this is a home run don't know how baseball works
