Earlier this season, Los Angeles Angels right fielder Jo Adell had an incredible night to remember on defense, when he robbed the Seattle Mariners of three home runs, the AP reports. This time, he was on the wrong end of a play to forget. Adell misplayed a flyball into a bizarre home run off his head Tuesday, a fielding blunder reminiscent of José Canseco's embarrassing gaffe 33 years ago with the Texas Rangers. Adell reached up to catch TJ Rumfield's deep fly for the Colorado Rockies in the fourth inning, but the ball grazed the outside of his glove before bouncing off his head and over the wall for a solo homer.
"I was toward the line and I felt like I had a little bit longer way to go than I normally do on a route like that and just missed it," Adell told MLB.com. "It hit off my hat. I don't know if I overran it and took a step over. But it was kind of the icing on the cake because I was (bad) all the way around the whole day today." There was brief confusion on the field when the ball caromed off a digital scoreboard above the fence and back into the outfield. Rumfield stopped at second base, initially unsure of the ruling, before proceeding around the bases to give Colorado an 8-0 lead on the way to an 8-2 victory.
"It's one of those things where how it happened looks crazy," said Adell, who also went 0 for 4 at the plate with two strikeouts. "It looks like I've never played in the field before, which is disappointing, because it's beyond the truth. But it is what it is. I'm the only one that really knows what happened. I was out there, and it happened to me, so it is what it is. I've got to just keep going, and as a team, we've got to keep going." It was similar to an infamous play on May 26, 1993, when Canseco lost track of a long drive hit by Cleveland's Carlos Martínez. The ball bounced off Canseco's head and over the right-field wall for a home run.
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