“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.

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.

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Kevin mostly covers college football and college basketball, with an emphasis on NCAA issues and other legal issues in sports. He is also an incoming law student. He's written for SB Nation, USA Today, VICE Sports, The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal, among others. He is a graduate of Northwestern University.