Angels' Bryce Teodosio caught a ball with a 0% estimated success rate
The numbers didn't quite get this one right.
Angels' Bryce Teodosio caught a ball with a 0% estimated success rate originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Baseball Savant has a stat called estimated success rate on fly balls and whether they'll be caught.
On the final pitch of the Los Angeles Angels ' game against the Cincinnati Reds on Friday night, Ke'Bryan Hayes hit a blooping fly ball that had a 0% estimated success rate. The game shouldn't have ended on that play. That's when Bryce Teodosio came soaring in from centerfield, dove forward and caught the ball anyway.
It wasn't an impossible catch by every metric -- Baseball Savant's catch probability gave it a 5% chance of being snagged. Still, an incredibly improbable grab. MORE: Yankees outfielder once battled ostrich in 11-plate spaghetti-eating contest Teodosio went 83 feet in 4.
2 seconds, and somehow got a jump measured at 10. 9 feet above average. Basically, as soon as the ball left Hayes' bat, Teodosio was racing right to the spot where it ended up.