Watch: Blue Jays' pop fly disappears, never comes back down
Here’s something you don’t see every day.
In Monday’s Blue Jays-Astros game at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Toronto’s Curtis Granderson hit a high pop up in foul territory behind home plate that never came down.
It either defied the laws of gravity or got stuck in the rafters of Minute Maid’s retractable roof.
The latter is probably the safe bet.
It happened in the top of the first with Astros starter Justin Verlander pitching to leadoff batter Granderson. Granderson popped one up behind the plate and Astros catcher Max Stassi threw off his mask and drifted back to catch it.
Stassi saw it going up, got under, but then waited … and waited … and waited … for it to come back down. It never did.
“Where did it go?” said one of the Blue Jays announcers. “I didn’t see it come down. It didn’t go into the stands — the fans are looking for the ball.”
It obviously got stuck in the rafters, which is not quite as amazing as a ball vanishing into thin air. Still, it’s pretty incredible that it got lodged somewhere up there in the beams.
“That is very strange … I don’t know that I’ve ever seen that when one didn’t come down,” the announcer said.
Verlander and Granderson had a laugh about it. Verlander jokingly covered his head with this glove to protect himself if it should fall.
”I still have no idea what happened on that,” Granderson said, reported Fox Sports. ”I’ve never hit a ball that high before.”
Hopefully the grounds crew will find it before it randomly becomes dislodged one day and falls back to earth.
That was not the only ball that Granderson made disappear, metaphorically speaking. He made two balls disappear into the outfield seats, crushing two home runs off his former Tigers teammate to lead the Blue Jays to a 6-3 win.
But the play of the game belonged to Randal Grichuk, who made a game-saving catch in the bottom of the ninth.
Shut it down. Ladies and gents, we have your catch of the year. #WOW https://t.co/Fwvfr0rvMi
— Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) June 26, 2018
Grichuk moved over from center field to right field in the bottom of the ninth and proceeded to rob George Springer of a game-tying three-run homer with a spectacular leaping catch over the wall in right field.
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