It’s a shame the Boston Red Sox are eliminated from postseason contention, because Mookie Betts’ throw Monday night otherwise might be garnering even more deserved attention.
During the Sox’s eventual loss to the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field, Avisail Garcia roped a ball into right that certainly was going to be a double, but could be stretched into a triple with some added speed. But Betts tracked the ball down as Garcia rounded second and threw it 305 feet on a line to third baseman Rafael Devers, who made the tag to nab Garcia.
Take a look.
Pretty impressive.
Sox manager Alex Cora loved the throw, and Betts offered a pretty subdued reaction.
“Yeah, that was probably my best throw,” Betts said, as seen on NESN’s Red Sox postgame coverage. “Yeah, I didn’t know I could do that.
“It’s fun to kind of do stuff that you didn’t know you could do.”
We can imagine that probably was a fun play to make.
