Minor league baseball player smacks ball so hard it gets stuck in wall
A minor league baseball player couldn't believe his own strength striking a ball at 111mph and wedging the ball into an outfield wall.
Buffalo Bisons player Gabriel Moreno had a moment to remember as he hit a clean strike in the ninth inning sending the ball over the head of a helpless outfielder before being 'crushed' inside the surrounding wall. Umpires initially awarded the 22-year-old a home run thinking his strike had cleared the wall before correcting their decision and awarding a ground-rule double.
“I was thinking that’s a homer because that’s what the umpire said first so I kept running,” Moreno told The Buffalo News after the game.
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“But when I looked, the left fielder was pointing and the ball is in the wall. I was just thinking, ‘Wow.’ I couldn’t believe it.”
Despite his achievement Moreno couldn't prevent his Buffalo Bisons from suffering a 15-4 defeat at the hands of Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs. Left fielder Chris Sharpe was left confused as to what had happened as the ball flew over his head but was nowhere to be found.
“I looked a little closer and saw a little bit of the ball sticking out of there," Sharpe told The Buffalo News. "I just put my arms up so they could see it was stuck and played it safe. Even when I went to go and get it, it looks like I pushed it in there a little bit but it was lodged. I could not get that thing out.”
The television commentators were equally as impressed by Moreno's shot with one stating that the ball was "stuck right in the wall and crushed".
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