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Watching minor league baseball isn’t exactly the most exciting pastime.

Sure, going to games is lots of fun, and it’s always worth checking in to see how your team’s top prospects are performing.

That being said, though, there’s a reason minor leaguers are, well, not in the majors.

Sometimes, though, a minor-league prospect can make a play that not even MLB’s best would be capable of pulling off.

On Tuesday, Louisville Bats catcher Stuart Turner showed off his defensive skills, making a catch on a foul tip that can only be described as unreal.

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The Bats — who are the Triple-A affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds — were hosting the Chicago White Sox’s Triple-A team, the Charlotte Knights.

At one point in the game, a Knights batter barely made contact with a two-strike pitch.

He foul-tipped the ball, which promptly hit Turner’s catching mask.


Then, the ball rolled away from Turner’s face all the way down his arm. When it reached his hand, he was able to snag it using his mitt, thus ending the at-bat in a strikeout.

It was an impressive catch for sure, and it even earned a spot on ESPN’s list of top ten plays from the day.

Were you impressed by this catcher's abilities?


Unsurprisingly, Twitter users were amazed by what Turner had done.


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The Bats, meanwhile, ended up winning the game 5-1.

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Joe Setyon was a deputy managing editor for The Western Journal who had spent his entire professional career in editing and reporting. He previously worked in Washington, D.C., as an assistant editor/reporter for Reason magazine.
Joe Setyon was deputy managing editor for The Western Journal with several years of copy editing and reporting experience. He graduated with a degree in communication studies from Grove City College, where he served as managing editor of the student-run newspaper. Joe previously worked as an assistant editor/reporter for Reason magazine, a libertarian publication in Washington, D.C., where he covered politics and wrote about government waste and abuse.
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