Seeing fans catch a foul ball or a home run at a Major League Baseball game is something we see all the time. There’s nothing crazy about seeing either of those things happen.
But have you ever seen a fan catch a pitch? Now that would be crazy, right?
Well, that’s something that happened last night in Minnesota when Tigers pitcher Tyler Alexander flung a pitch way up into the stands behind home plate after the ump called a time out that seemed to be a very late call.
Alexander didn’t have time to stop and didn’t want to stop quickly and maybe injure himself so he let the ball fly:
Tyler Alexander, FILTHY 106ft changeup* 🤢@PitchingNinja pic.twitter.com/8RYgQ8FRRW
— Detroit Tigers (@tigers) September 29, 2021
I love this angle of it:
This pitch from Tyler Alexander is 100% what a pitch from me would look like if I was on the Tigers. pic.twitter.com/nIZ6wPlxyY
— Matt Akers (@mattakersmusic) September 29, 2021
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