{"id":160056,"date":"2025-09-21T21:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T21:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/160056\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T21:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T21:28:07","slug":"nats-down-reeling-new-york-mets-after-extraordinary-hacky-sack-catch-mlb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/160056\/","title":{"rendered":"Nats down reeling New York Mets after extraordinary \u2018hacky-sack\u2019 catch | MLB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Washington Nationals center fielder Jacob Young made two incredible catches Sunday that sent the New York Mets to a costly defeat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Young incredibly used his foot to rob Brett Baty of extra bases with a juggling grab in the fifth inning, then made a leaping play in the ninth to take away a potential game-tying homer from Francisco \u00c1lvarez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">With the Mets down 3-1, Baty led off the fifth with a long fly ball to center field against Jake Irvin. Young raced back and got twisted around a bit with the ball tailing back over his head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">He turned his body and leaped at the wall, but the ball was jarred out of his glove when he hit the fence. The ball never touched the wall, however, and a stumbling Young kicked it back up into the air with his right foot \u2013 hacky-sack style \u2013 before gloving it a second time for a circus catch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Umpires immediately ruled Baty out as he sprinted around second base.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In the ninth inning, Alvarez led off with a high line drive to deep left-center field. Young again raced back and jumped, this time catching the ball cleanly at the top of the fence to help preserve a 3-2 victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">New York, who have lost 11 of 15, began the day with a one-game lead over Cincinnati for the final National League wild card spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Nationals center fielder Jacob Young made two incredible catches Sunday that sent the New York Mets to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-160056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}