Tag Archives: great catch
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Padres Fan Makes Awesome Diving Catch on Home Run Ball (Videos)
With each passing week, that guy who let the home run ball hit his girlfriend in Arizona is looking worse and worse. First he got shown up by the Reds fan who caught the home run ball one-handed while holding his kid. Then he got shown up by the Astros fan who caught the home [...]
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Reds Fan Catches Home Run Ball in One Hand While Holding Infant in the Other (Video)
Last week we showed you a clip of a Diamondbacks fan who jumped out of the way of a home run ball and let it hit his girlfriend in the face. This week we have the polar opposite. At the Reds-Nationals game in Cincinnati on Saturday, Washington’s Jayson Werth blasted a home run to right-center [...]
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Cricket Fan Makes Great One-Handed Catch Without Dropping His Food (Video)
Winter is a tough time for hardcore baseball fans. But here’s some good news for all you baseball-loving folks out there: pitchers and catchers report in just four weeks. And if four weeks still seems like an eternity to you, well then how about this—today we’ve got a very baseball-like cricket highlight from Australia. Heck, [...]
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21 Amazing Baseball Catch GIFs
The other day I was watching a little postseason baseball—totally not while I was at work—when I saw St. Louis Cardinals center fielder Jon Jay make a fantastic catch up against the left-center field wall during Game 2 of the NLDS. At the time the Cardinals were up 7-3, but it was only the 6th [...]
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Cards’ Jon Jay Makes Amazing Circus Catch At Minute Maid Park (Video)
Last year, the St. Louis Cardinals traded away their former “center fielder of the future,” Colby Rasmus, because they thought they had a very capable replacement in Jon Jay. How has Jay repaid their faith in him? By playing great defense and hitting .299/.358/.412 over his 1,155 career at-bats. In fact, so far this season, [...]
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You’ve Got To See This Incredible Diving Over-The-Shoulder Cricket Catch (Video)
It’s funny how sports news tends to come in waves. We’ll go months and months without featuring cricket highlight here on TotalProSports. Then all of a sudden we’ll have two for you within a week. Last week, you may recall, the story was about a jubilant Pakistani cricket fan who busted out some pretty [...]
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25 Awesome Football Catch GIFs
When you were a kid, September was an awful time of year because it meant one thing: going back to school. However, when you get older, September becomes the best month of the year. Why? Because that’s when football starts up again after a miserable six-month hiatus. Oh sure, the CFL starts up in mid [...]
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Pablo Sandoval and Brandon Crawford Team Up to Make One Crazy Catch (Video)
When your starting third baseman’s nickname is “Kung Fu Panda,” you know there is no such thing as a routine play. San Francisco Giants fans understand this reality, and they embrace it. Pablo Sandoval isn’t just some defensive liability they tolerate for his bat. The guy is a fan favorite in the Bay Area. [...]
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Padres Fan Makes Nice Catch On Foul Ball Despite Cast On Right Hand (Video)
The folks who produce Padres games for Fox Sports San Diego know the home team doesn’t give them a whole lot of stuff to talk about. Not positive stuff, anyway. So they like to send their intrepid field reporter into the stands to interview fans whenever something remotely interesting happens. Last week it was the [...]
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Did Phillies Prospect Jiwan James Make An Insane Bare-Handed Catch Over The Outfield Wall? (Video)
Do you like magic tricks? If so, you’re going to love this play. Recently, Jiwan James, a highly touted prospect in the Philadelphia Phillies farm system—or is it pharm system?—made an absolutely unbelievable over-the-wall catch to rob an opposing batter of a home run. And by “absolutely unbelievable,” I don’t mean it was so amazing [...]
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Kansas City Cop Makes Great Catch While Fan Falls On His Head At MLB Home Run Derby (Video)
It’s always fun to sit in the bleachers at a baseball game. The fans out there aren’t necessarily paying close attention to every pitch, but they know how to have a good time (Pro tip: the secret is to drink a lot of beer). But if you thought hanging in the bleachers for a regular [...]
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Fan Catches Foul Ball With One Hand While Holding Baby…No Big Deal (Video)
There are lots of great ways to catch foul balls at a baseball game. You can do it with a popcorn bucket, a blanket, a beer, or even your face—though that last one is not recommended. However, without a doubt, the crème de la crème of foul ball catches is the gloveless one-handed baby-holding catch. [...]
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Dodgers Justin Sellers Makes Awesome Over-the-Shoulder Basket Catch, Ends Up In Front Row (Video)
Dodgers utility infielder Justin Sellers may only be hitting .193/.282/.287 in limited playing time so far this season, but the rookie sure is trying to make up for the slow start at the plate with a hard-nosed effort in the field. On Monday, he turned in a highlight reel play over at third base so [...]
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Incredible One-Handed Catch By High School Wide Receiver (Video)
I’m not the biggest high school football fan. This guy is. But when I come across an incredible football play at any level, I stop and admire it. Let me tell you, when I saw the catch you are about to see, I stopped and admired it for a pretty long time. Last Friday, August [...]
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Twins Center Fielder Ben Revere Makes Incredible Over The Shoulder Catch By (Video)
Sometimes when a ball player comes to the plate he gets lucky, hitting a weak ground ball that somehow manages to trickle between a couple of infielders for a hit—a hit that counts just as much toward his batting average as a doubled ripped off the left-center field wall. Other times a ball player ain’t [...]
