When Jose Canseco’s name is brought up in water cooler discussions, your mind can go in a million different directions: from his bash-brother days with Mark McGwire, to his to his book that exposed doping in his baseball, his acting days, or his eccentric tweets.
To say Canseco is a polarizing figure is a bit of an understatement.
The slugger mashed 462 career home-runs over his 17-year MLB career, but there’s one dinger that is on the lighter side of things and isn’t so controversial: the home run he conceded as an outfielder that bounced of his head from a ball hit hit by Cleveland’s Carlos Martinez back in 1993.
You’ve seen that time and time again in sports bloopers tapes because of how hysterical and unique the dinger was. But, after last night, Reno Aces outfielder Zach Borenstein, a minor-leaguer playing in the Diamondbacks organization, may have one-upped Canseco’s legendary gaffe against the Oklahoma City Dodgers.
The ball came off the bat of Dodgers prospect Alex Verdugo, the highest non-pitching prospect in Los Angeles’ system, according to MLB Pipeline.
There had to have been some serious exit velocity on contact, because the ball traveled 25-feet into the Aces bullpen after ricocheting off Borenstein. Or maybe Borenstein’s head is just the perfect spring. Either way, Verdugo was able to pad his stats with a three-run homer at outfielder’s expense.
Being compared to Jose Canseco as a minor leaguer trying to find his way to the show would lead you to believe of something more serious in nature, but this is pretty hilarious.
On the bright side, at least Borenstein and the Aces won the game 9-7. Plus, it will make for a great story when his baseball career is all said and done.
Talk about literally making a heads up play.
