Boston Red Sox’ Alex Cora on catch: ‘I’ve never ever seen
TORONTO– One idea came to manager Alex Cora’s mind when Blue Jays center fielder Daulton Varsho fell down on the warning track pursuing Jarren Duran’s 396-foot fly ball in the fourth inning Tuesday.
“Inside-the-park (crowning achievement). That’s my idea,” Cora stated before Boston’s game versus the Blue Jays on Wednesday. “And after that took place.”
Varsho somehow made the catch while on the ground after spotting the ball in the final seconds.
“I have actually never seen anything like that,” Cora said.Varsho won a Gold Glove last year, posting 16 defensive runs in 672 innings in center field and 12 protective runs saved in 404 1/3 innings in left field.
“Just a great athlete,” Cora said. “He’s one of the very best, if not the best defenders in the outfield. And simply a response. In the words of Kristian Campbell, that was crazy.”
Alex Bregman called it among the very best catches he’s ever seen. He believed it would be a triple for the speedy Duran.
“I simply stuck my glove out and in some way it entered,” Varsho told reporters covering the Blue Jays, consisting of MLB.com’s Keegan Matheson. “It was probably an actually high percent likelihood of a catch and I made it look actually hard.”
Matheson noted it had a 95% catch possibility– so if Varsho didn’t drop, it would have been a regular catch.
“I stated a profanity word,” Varsho likewise told reporters. “But then I resembled, ‘OK, where’s the ball?'”