Move over, Kevin Kiermaier. You’re no longer the owner of the best play by a centerfielder this week.
Lin Che-Hsuan of the Chinese Professional Baseball League’s Fubon Guardians made a spectacular grab that was only made even more incredible by his understated reaction to the grab that had everybody in the ballpark fooled.
In the bottom of the sixth with the score tied 2–2, Uni-President Lions first baseman Pan Yen-Ting hit a blast to dead center. Lin tracked the ball to the wall, leaped, thrust his glove over the fence and landed back on the ground, his head hanging and his shoulders slumped.