Mike D. Sykes II
There’s something in the air with baseball right now. The game is giving us things we rarely — sometimes never — see. It’s fun. And weird. Very, very weird.
On one end, we have first-swing home runs. On the other end, you have another instance where a ball got stuck in the dirt and turned into a groundout. But this ball right here from Toronto Blue Jays prospect Gabriel Moreno of the Buffalo Bisons? He gave us the best of both worlds.
He hit the ball so hard that it got stuck in the outfield wall.
No one knew what to do. The umpire called it a home run initially, but they eventually turned it into an automatic double despite it not actually going over the wall and out of play.
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It’s jammed in there. The silhouette on the wall somehow caught the ball.
Everyone was confused about it, including the crew calling the game.
“Moreno hit that ball so hard, it’s stuck in the wall,” one announcer said. The other responded “yeah, that ball was crushed,” after he correctly guessed it would be called a double.
Officially, the ball went 111 miles per hour off the bat.
