There is no play, in my opinion, more exciting than the straight steal of home. Extremely risky and with a relatively high opportunity cost — you’re already on third base, a hit scores the run — it stands alongside half-court buzzer-beaters and 90-yard touchdown runs among the rarest regularly-occurring plays in sports.
Yankees utilityman Isiah Kiner-Falefa treated the New York faithful to one of these rare plays earlier this week, stealing home on Mets pitcher Brooks Raley as part of Wednesday’s wild loss in Queens. But how did IKF, whose 27.7 ft/sec sprint speed puts him in the 63rd percentile, manage to pull off one of the most difficult plays of all time?