It positive appeared dicey off the bat, didn’t it? It positive appeared like Ceddanne Rafaela had caught David Bednar’s 97 mph fastball sq., sending the ball straight to the Yankee Stadium twilight zone, towards the quick porch in proper, the built-in optical phantasm that makes it look like each fairly hit fly ball has a shot to search out arms.
And this … this felt prefer it had a shot.
However Aaron Decide sprinted straight for the warning observe after which he halted 4 steps onto the warning observe. That is when 47,993 witnesses started to breathe once more. A couple of seconds later the ball was in Decide’s glove, and the usually mild-mannered proper fielder — Clark Kent till he chooses to don his cape — delivered an uppercut together with his proper fist.
“Yeeeeeaaaaaahhhh!” he exclaimed, and you possibly can nearly hear it over the thunder of pleasure spilling out of the Stadium.
