One of the best things about baseball is that something you’ve never seen before can happen at any moment. The Boston Red Sox provided one of those moments on Wednesday night.

With the Red Sox leading 7-1 in the ninth inning, Toronto Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk hit a line drive into right field, directly to Wilyer Abreu. Abreu gathered the ball and came up firing, skipping it to first baseman Nathaniel Lowe for the putout, ending the game .

Kirk was perhaps one of the few hitters Abreu could have caught at first base. His 24.2 feet per second sprint speed is in the eight-slowest among qualified hitters. Red Sox manager Alex Cora wasn’t surprised by the Gold Glovers’ heads-up play.

“It’s a great play, understanding whose running, the ball got hit hard, and it was basically a r

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