Saturday, September 27, 2008

he did what?

Minute Maid park in Houston, TX has been home to some great defensive plays around the unique Tal's Hill in center field. But yesterday, a great base running play made me sit up and take notice while watching sports center. Michael Born, the Astros' center fielder who has to navigate Tal's Hill when playing in the field, was on second base when Lance Berkman hit a long fly ball to center. Born with great speed tags up from second and SCORES! Scoring from second on a sacrifice fly has happened before, but it's often because the fielder had to dive to make the catch and wasn't able to get up quickly to make a throw back to the infield. This was not the case with Born. The catch was made at around the base of Tal's hill and the throw was made back toward the infield right away. Born flew around third base and scored well ahead of the cutoff throw. I've never seen anything like it.

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