Thank the baseball gods for Austin Hays. If someone told you Monday morning that watching a 105-loss Baltimore Orioles team in late-September, with Chandler Shepherd on the mound giving up six runs in three innings (including three home runs), would be worth your time, I can only imagine what your response would have been. Well, I hope you watched.
Monday night was yet another night that belonged to the 24-year-old center fielder of the future in Birdland, Austin Hays. The outfield wall at the Rogers Centre was no match for Hays as he mashed multiple home runs over it and crashed into it to add another big highlight to his impressive reel of defensive efforts in just 16 games at the major league level in 2019.