The outfielder raced back in deep center to track a drive by Boston Red Sox batter Jarren Duran. Varsho fell. He rolled. He reached behind to somehow make the catch.
“I just stuck my glove out and somehow it went in,” Varsho told MLB.com. “It was probably a really high percent probability of a catch and I made it look really hard.”
His sheepish smile after turning a mistake into perhaps the “CATCH OF THE YEAR” says it all.
“We said he makes highlight reel catches, but this is crazy,” one of the announcers enthused.
Varsho, a Gold Glove-winning outfielder, was making his season debut after a shoulder injury.
So perhaps he was understandably rusty in tumbling to the turf.
“I said a profanity word,” Varsho told reporters, per masslive.com. “But then I was like, ‘OK, where’s the ball?’”
