Watch: Raimel Tapia with a freakish inside-the-park grand slam, the result turns extremely amusing
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Raimel Tapia had one of the best moments in this years’ Major League Baseball season, surely, this is going to be all over social media. Tapia’s Toronto Blue Jays set a record for their organization which resulted in a new low for the Boston Red Sox, Jays went on to score 28 runs at Fenway Park.
On Friday, in the third innings, the bases were loaded for the Blue Jays and they had two outs, Tapia hit a flyball that looked quite promising but his reaction indicated that he knew the ball will land in an outfielders’ glove.
Honestly, none had the idea of what was about to happen. Suddenly, there was center fielder Jarren Duran, arms outstretched as the ball fell 30 feet behind him on the warning track. He had no idea the ball landed 30 feet away. It almost looked like a shoot for a movie. Raimel Tapia heard his first-base coach Mark Budzinski say, “You’ve got to go”.
By the time the players and the fans realized what happened in the outfield, Blue Jays’ Lourdes Gurriel Jr., Danny Jansen and Santiago Espinal were crowded around home plate to celebrate Raimel Tapia running towards them. He had hit an inside the park grand slam to burst the game wide open, 10-0, which converted to a 28-5 win.
Superman Raimel Tapia with a galvanizing inside-the-park grand slam
Raimel Tapia flew like a superman to reach the home plate, somewhere while running for bases, he knew that this moment is worth capturing. “It was very, very emotional. That’s the way we are. We celebrate everything here,” Tapia said through an interpreter. “We were very happy about it. It was just great, that celebration in the dugout.”
“Pete [Walker, pitching coach] and I were joking about it in the dugout,” Blue Jays manager John Schneider said after the game. “You look at that and you just think, ‘OK, this is different. This is cool.’ You don’t really see that every day. It was just one of those nights where you saw something special.”
“I just put my head down and started running. I thought he caught it,” Jansen said of the slam. “I looked back once and saw his hands were up, so I just started running. Eventually, I turn around, and he’s rounding third base.”
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