Everything you ever hear about heroin is that it is an incredible high, but it's also incredibly addictive, to the point of ruining your life. That's a Yasiel Puig highlight; that's this Yasiel Puig highlight. Just look at this nonsense for one second and you won't stop. When I started writing this up I lived a modest life, in a nice apartment with a dog. The dog is now dead, the apartment is burned down, and I have no memory of how either happened or where my pants went.
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Here's a view of the entire flight of the ball. It's smoked into the gap and barely gets above the height of the wall and Puig still tracks it down and lays all the way out for it. He got a perfect jump, hauled ass to a spot, and lunged for the ball. It's raining in Chicago, too, so the catch looks extra dope with the sliding finish.
After the catch, Puig popped up and threw to second doubling off Chris Coghlan, who (fairly) assumed there was no way anyone was catching that ball. Puig also grabbed his right shoulder after making the throw, as if he injured it either on the dive or the throw, but he remained in the game.[MLB]