What I consider the best baseball catch ever made
Any time there is a cool play by a Major League outfielder (Watch Great Catch by Dodger Center Fielder Joc Pederson), I am reminded of what I consider to be the greatest, most athletic baseball catch of all time: Gary Matthew Jr. of the Texas Rangers. I’m thinking this was about 8 or 9 years ago. Watch it to the end where the color man says “You may not see a better catch for a decade.”
What I love about the catch is that Matthews had to vault himself way above the wall. And it wasn’t one of the dinky 7 or 8 foot outfield fences where guys just back pedal a bit and then jump up and barely get their glove over to rob a home run. Matthews was running full speed and launches himself way into the air to make the grab:
Matt Nielson has been writing about the college sports landscape in Utah and the Intermountain West since 2010. When he’s not pretending to be a professional blogger, he works full time as a residential real estate agent and house flipper. Matt graduated from Brigham Young University in 2000. He and his family reside in Salt Lake City, UT.
