Marlins outfield prospect Monte Harrison has played 41 big-league games. He’s spent much of this season with the Triple-A Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp (what a name!) where he pulled off one of the more incredible and needlessly difficult catches you’ll ever see.
During Saturday’s game between the Jumbo Shrimp and the Charlotte Knights, Harrison had a beat on a deep, two-out drive to center field. Harrison clearly thought that Deivy Grullon got more of the pitch than he actually did because Harrison timed his approach and scaled the wall in hopes of robbing a home run at the very top.
The ball, though, was just heading to the warning track.
OH MY WHAT A CATCH 😱
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While at the top of the wall, Harrison quickly realized that he misjudged the ball a bit and reached down and forward to make the grab. He played off the catch so casually too, which had the broadcasting team confused.
Unnecessary wall-scaling aside, it was still a phenomenal catch and great adjustment.
You just know that Harrison saw that wall-scaling opportunity with the railing beyond the fence before the game and wanted to try it out when he had the chance.
The man just really wanted to scale a wall, and there’s nothing wrong with it. It would have been up there with this catch from Masato Akamatsu in Japan.
But hey, a standing grab in front of the wall would have been way less fun. Keep on scaling walls, Monte.
