There’s not much that’s more exciting among baseball plays in the field than when an outfielder is able to climb the fence like Spider-Man, reaching full extension to go over the fence and catch a fly ball that would have been a home run otherwise.
Orioles fans were treated to Cedric Mullins making one of these amazing catches in Wednesday’s game against the Yankees. He drifted back to the wall, he leapt, he braced against it, he grabbed hold of the top of the fence to reach higher, and he made an amazing catch. It was almost unbelievable, except that it happened right in front of our eyes.