Rays' Steven Souza can't help but laugh at himself after completely missing fly ball
Tampa Bay Rays right fielder Steven Souza had a little bit of a spatial misjudgment while diving for a fly ball Friday night at Target Field in Minnesota.
Earlier in the game, Souza had made a flying leap and impressively caught Kennys Vargas' line drive in the second inning.
Perhaps Souza had an idea the same thing would happen when Vargas hit a drive into right center at the bottom of the seventh, because he made a dive to catch it.
Souza was not that far off ... give or take 20 feet:
https://twitter.com/MLBGIFs/status/868301497544482816
Souza and Rays center fielder Kevin Kiermaier couldn't help but laugh at how badly Souza misjudged the ball.
https://twitter.com/MLBGIFs/status/868301752545591297
Statcast crunched the numbers, and concluded there was absolutely no way that Souza was going to catch that ball:
https://twitter.com/statcast/status/868331628132802561
https://twitter.com/SouzaJr/status/868332034304901120
An A-plus effort indeed. Plus, Souza redeemed himself by hitting a homer in the eighth, and the Rays beat the Twins 5-2. Though he's still not above laughing at himself:
https://twitter.com/SouzaJr/status/868328493721034752
