Rajai Davis will make a great fourth outfielder one day… just as soon as the Jays, y’know, find a third one. But why be bitter when we have an actual, tremendous play from Sunday’s game to enjoy? After all, these are not your piddly little eight foot walls, Mike Trout, as Rajai scales the ten foot Rogers Centre fence to rob Casey McGehee…
Clip via MLB.com.
“Who needs Mike Trout when you got Rajai Davis?”
-Shit no one says
And no one said it. Making your quotation marks kind of dumb.
You don’t understand the concept of “Shit no one says” quotes do you?
Let him rage dgapa. Let Tony rage.
Can anyone remember someone else taking a home run away in the ‘Dome? As soon as he stopped for a moment I figured it was gone… great moment in front of a sizable crowd.
I can’t recall another play where a fielder took one away. I kind of wanted the dome to lower the walls like Camden Yards so you’d see this happen from time to time.
I think the pitching staff would have a vested interest in leaving the walls where they are. Already a hitter’s park as it is.
the one where reddick climbed the wall on snider a couple of weeks ago? not sure if that one was going out.
It wasn’t, by the time it was done I don’t even think he had to jump…
SkyDome’s park factor for home runs puts them 11th in the league. So, yeah, top half of the league, but not an absurd homer park or anything
I honestly cannot remember the last time a Blue jay did this anywhere. I only wish I was at the dome to see this happen without having to listen to Buck and Pat.
I remember Eric Thames headbutting one out of Camden Yards earlier this year…but no catches
Jerry Howarth mentioned on the radio it’s only the second time. Ken Griffey Jr. did it once before apparently. I trust Jerry’s memory.
I feel like Reddick did it this year against the Jays… When he climbed the bullpen gate….
But I cant remember if that one was a goner or not…
Reddick made a great catch, but that ball wasn’t going out.
It was close, but wasn’t going out.
http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=23343641&topic_id=&c_id=mlb&tcid=vpp_copy_23343641&v=3
Thanks for reminding me that Oakland beat us 16-0 in that game. I had almost managed to erase that from my memory
He climbed the wall, but didn’t actually have to, he was showing off….plus he climbed a couple of seconds early. Rajai’s catch was perfect timing all around.
Griffey Jr did it. don’t recall a Blue Jay ever doing it – not even Devon.
I’m pretty sure Tom Goodwin took a home run away when he was with the Rangers.
No way that it’s ever happened at the Dome before…surely that has to be the highest fence (10 feet I think) that an outfielder’s ever scaled to bring back a home run ball, no?
beauty.
To be fair to Mike Trout, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvr-9Dd5XRA
Love Rajai! Speed and awesome ups!
–Oshawa Ollie
How do I know you’re really Oshawa Ollie?
Methinks he’s trying too hard to be Oshawa Ollie to be Oshawa Ollie.
Thank you very much Oshawa.
–Regards
–Rejai Davis
Who’s Rejai?
Who just said that?!?
How am I supposed to know who you are??
LMAO! Dude, you spelled Rajai wrong!
–Oshawa Ollie
Well either we were entertained with a colour commentator being dumbfounded or Pat Tabbler is always like that. He repeated himself 3 times. In all fairness it was a sweet catch.
Repeating himself is a mild improvement over repeating whatever Buck says.
“just a little bit”…
Wasn’t there a really awesome Vernon Wells catch in deep centre field to rob a Yankee (Rodriguez?) of a Home Run about 7 years back? I remember it being touted as one of the best catches of all time by a CF.
I can’t find any reference to it – can anyone help?
It sounds like you are thinking of this game, although it was in New York:
http://bluejays.mlb.com/news/wrap.jsp?ymd=20040921&content_id=866007&vkey=wrapup2004&fext=.jsp&c_id=tor
I was excited to see that there were still links to the video of it, but unsurprisingly they don’t seem to be working, which I think should probably be expected by now. Any ideas where you can get old footage?
Great find! Thanks! I bet that is it. Would love a video link if someone can ever come up with one.
No problem. It’s a shame that MLB make it so hard to see these videos and it’s all a symptom of their over-protective digital rights management.
Great play by Rajai, and very timely! That definitely helped to take some of the sting out of the yanks” rally that inning. Imagine how pissed we would all be today if the yanks gained some momentum from another home run and completed the comeback…
Thank you Rajai’s for allowing us to forget for about 5min that the season is over
I’m gonna regret making a player acquisition suggestion on this board as it will inevitably lead to some derision, name calling and terrible arguments from both sides but…. Wouldn’t Mr Swisher make a good option in LF next year?
He can probably be had on a short(er) contract (maybe 3-4 years), he’s the same age as Bautista and Davis. He’s a switch hitter. He’s an on base machine, which this team is sorely lacking, and he’s really not as bad defensively as you might think…Plus he’s versatile (LF, RF, 1B) which AA loves.
My dream offseason involves a signing such as him, plus Zack Greinke and Anibal Sanchez…. a boy can dream right!!?
…. attack away.
For kicks…. and to instigate further attacks against me
Lawrie – 3B
Swisher – LF
Bautista – RF
Encarnacion – 1B
SMoose! – CF
DH-dude – DH
Escobar – SS
‘Cibia/Darno – C
Hech – 2B
Greinke
Morrow
Romero
Sanchez
Happ (or something)
who is SMoose?
Rah-Smoose?
My only quam would be that I don’t like his face.
But your girlfriend probably does.
ZZZZZIING!!!
…. (sorry)
So, his quim would like his quam?
hahah…new word of the day.
wait, damn both of you!
Not sure I’d want “Anna Belle” Sanchez, I had too much fun mocking his girly sounding name from the stands when we lit him up a couple weeks back. I couldn’t do that in good conscience if he were a Jay.
Well…. Could be worse. His name could be
Asdrubal
… or Pujols.
…. or Merkin.
I was at the game yesterday and some moron behind me started spouting off about how “home runs kill rallies” after that catch as if it would have been better if it got out.
haha. that’s awesome.
How do I know that you’re really IMW?
I’m not! I’m really… YOU!!
You were sitting in front of Buck’s broadcast booth?
That was a disgusting catch.
…aaaaaannnnd, Kelly Johnson strikes out.
Sorry, this is all I hear all day in my head.
Great catch but it still gets trumped by Jim Edmonds catch a number of years ago