MIAMI
In the moments after the catch, after Jarrod Dyson had covered 98 feet and sprinted 19.8 mph and scaled a center-field wall with a last-second lunge and leap, there was only an outfielder and a face of stone.
On the mound, Edinson Volquez wore an incredulous expression and pulled his hands above his head. In the dugout, a line of professional baseball players guffawed, almost too stunned to tip their caps. And then there was Dyson, jogging casually through the center-field grass, zipping back to the dugout after the finest catch of his life.
In the bottom of the first inning on Thursday night, Dyson had tracked back to the center field wall and stole a homer from Miami left fielder Christian Yelich, who had hammered a baseball 414 feet to center field.