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Red Sox veteran witnessed ‘one of the best catches I’ve seen in my life’
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TORONTO — The Red Sox won 10-2 over the Blue Jays on Tuesday but the play of the game was made by the losing team.
Blue Jays center fielder Daulton Varsho made a wild catch after falling down on the warning track going after Jarren Duran 's 396-foot fly ball in the fourth inning.
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Varsho somehow made the catch while on the ground after spotting the ball in the final seconds.
Red Sox third baseman Alex Bregman said he has never seen anything like it.
"That was incredible," Bregman said. "That was one of the best catches I've ever seen in my life. I wish he wouldn't have because it would have been a nice triple for Jarren. But you gotta tip your hat to him there. That was an unbelievable play."
Varsho won a Gold Glove last year, posting 16 defensive runs in 672 innings in center field and 12 defensive runs saved in 404 ⅓ innings in left field.
"I just stuck my glove out and somehow it went in," Varsho told reporters covering the Blue Jays, including MLB.com's Keegan Matheson . "It was probably a really high percent probability of a catch and I made it look really hard."
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Matheson noted it had a 95% catch probability — so if Varsho didn't fall down, it would have been a routine catch.
"I said a profanity word," Varsho also told reporters. "But then I was like, 'OK, where's the ball?'"
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