Flying! Fernando Tatis Jr. scored on the ground and runs high to the shortstop!

If you’re an infielder and you’re backing up to catch a fly ball, with Fernando Tatis Jr. at third base, good luck trying to make the out. It has become customary to see the San Diego Padres’ stellar shortstop scoring with flies towards infield players, and he did so again Saturday against the Washington Nationals.

Washington shortstop Trea Turner did everything right, landing a flamboyant catch off Manny Machado’s 216-foot fly ball in short left field. After securing the out, Turner threw a strike at the plate.

But Tatis was quicker and more astute, sliding to beat Puerto Rican receiver RenĂ© Rivera’s attempt to touch him, consummating the score for the borderlands in Washington.

On the play, the Dominican reached a sprint speed of 30.5 feet per second (30 is considered elite).

AJ Cassavell / MLB.com


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Gabriel Delgado

I started as a rookie on Al Bat in early 2018 and I am going into my third season covering Major League Baseball as a web reporter. I am a fan of the San Francisco Giants, a number one defender of Barry Bonds and a critic of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Fernando Tatis Jr., Juan Soto and Ronald Acuña are the future of baseball, Mike Trout is overrated, and the Astros deserved to be taken away from the World Series for cheating. Besides baseball, I also enjoy soccer, football, basketball, and just about any other game that includes a ball or a ball. I am also an amateur musician, penniless gamer and very nerdy. Graduated in journalism from the University of Guadalajara, I graduated in 2017. Born in the shrimp capital of the world, Escuinapa, Sinaloa. I lived in Australia for a while; i survived giant spiders, tasmanian devils and fought a kangaroo and didn’t die trying.

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