Brant Brown, 1998, is the one I will always remember. The Cubs were tied with the Mets for the wild card with three games remaining. The Cubs were up 7-5, but the Brewers had the bases loaded with two outs and Geoff Jenkins coming to the plate. Jenkins hit a fairly long flyball to left field where Brant Brown was camped under it. Somehow, he managed to drop it, which allowed the Brewers to win on a walk-off as all three runners scored. Luckily for the Cubs, they were able to win a one-game playoff against the Giants for the only wild card slot.
Castillo might have still been able to make the out at home, but I guess he was too psychologically rattled from having dropped the ball. I'd have just given up and thrown the cutoff too if I were him.
Announcer near the end: "When was the last time you saw that?" Me: Oh, about ten seconds ago with the one before that. No faulting the ones with the sun in their eyes, you're practically blind at that point.
I like how the commenters think if they changed their technique they would catch every single ball ever hit to them. As if using two hand ensures 100 fielding percentage.
Most of those errors were caused by the fielders not doing the basic fundamentals. Showboat basket catches and not communicating with your fellow fielders. The fundamentals of the game don't change because you are making big league money.
David Stephenson No, actually. Day games, the sun plays a huge factor in seeing a fly ball. The wind can also play tricks on where the ball will land. I don't see any of these fielders trying to "showboat", they are genuienly having trouble catching the ball (maybe a bad route) or they lost their footing, maybe the ball bounces out of their glove (pros make mistakes, you know).
do hidden ball tricks or best around the base man slide, in fact, you can come to my senior games and watch me do those slides. (and not miss those catches) :)
A lot of these balls they still had to run and track down. It's more hilarious when they are as routine as they get, and they still can't make the play
To their defense, at least half of these were due to the sun. Anyone who has played baseball knows that a very high fly ball with a very bright sun makes it nearly impossible.
Seeing the soxs player drop that ball in the 9th inning with 2 outs i can tell they lost that game without even watching because thats what its like to be a chicago sports excluding the blackhawks lol
Lots of comments on here about catching technique but how about remembering those other things we learned as kids - like calling the ball. Why are pros still colliding? 2:37. "You got to be kidding me. You have GOT to be kidding me!!"
Slayer Mack not defending beckham as it looks like he was going for it anyways, but it looks like his feet got tangled on the mound and he collided with him, Im sure beckham had a play on it
Most of these comments are probably by people who have never watched a real full game of pro baseball, pop up errors rarely happen but when put into a montage like this it looks like it is common so quit saying that these guys are trash considering they’ve made it further in their baseball career than you and I will ever go
markwest1987 agreed, it was ugly... THATS WHY WE GOT RID OF HIM! (the Braves, Imma die hard Braves fan, and have hated Upton ever since we got rid of Justin.)
+JAKE AWESOMENESS-MINECRAFT/GAMING amen brother! I'm an Atlanta native and season ticket holder. I didn't like Justin but I HATE BJ. Wouldn't throw water on him if he was on fire. Glad he's out of Atlanta
Only the Rangers could have this happen multiple times in their favor and *still* be thrown out. Oh well, we have a World Series now so we can laugh about it I guess :p.