“Catch of the year” is overused these days, but it’s probably fair to say that Indians outfielder Austin Jackson actually made the catch of the year, or perhaps the catch of the decade, to rob Hanley Ramirez of a home run.
Austin Jackson with a bananas catch in Fenway!!!! pic.twitter.com/deoEFKUjVX
— Paul Sporer (@sporer) August 2, 2017
Yeah, catch of the decade.
Here are the replays.
And now some still frames.
https://twitter.com/MLBastian/status/892551755090862082
It’s not just the dive over the wall that makes this play special—it’s the fact that the wall spun Jackson around so quickly and that he was still able to hang onto the ball.
