Contrary to popular belief, Kyle Schwarber didn’t hit a ball to the moon Tuesday, as much as it may have seemed like he did.
The Cubs rookie finished off an incredible National League Divisional Series with a mammoth home run in the Cubs’ series-clinching Game 4 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. The left-handed slugger absolutely unloaded on a pitch out over the plate and appeared to clear the massive scoreboard in right field at Wrigley Field.
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At first glance, the ball appears to clear the scoreboard and just about everything else within a 10-mile range. Fans quickly lost track of the ball — likely assuming it was vaporized — but someone eventually realized there was a ball sitting atop the scoreboard.
“We were watching and looking,” Cubs fan Tom Comings told the Chicago Tribune. “Nobody actually saw where it went at first and then instantly I said ‘There it is, on top of the scoreboard.’ I put the picture on Twitter, and pictures from the seventh-inning stretch that clearly shows there was no ball up there then … It had to ricochet perfectly to land there.”
A Cubs source told the Tribune that the Cubs will leave the ball on top of the right-field video board. A source also told the paper that a Cubs employee went up to confirm it was the same ball and authenticate the ball. After that, the ball was replaced to the spot where it will stay for the rest of the playoffs.
Unless, you know, someone finds a way to climb up there and take it before the Cubs’ run comes to an end.
Thumbnail photo via Twitter/@Comings
