If you were to ask any random baseball fan what the most exciting part of the sport is, you’d likely get many different answers. For the most part, I’d expect people to say that home runs are the most exciting aspect of baseball. After all, in a modern baseball landscape where things such as exit velocity and launch angle have become such huge talking points and narrative drivers, the long ball is the logical conclusion. Maybe you’ll get some people who say a triple is the most exciting, as the three-bagger is one of the rarer hits you’ll see. But what about robbing a home run on the defensive side?
For anyone who might not be a baseball fan (hello, welcome), robbing a home run is, in my opinion, the baseball equivalent of blocking a fast-break dunk attempt in basketball. For a second, it looks like it’s a foregone conclusion. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, a hero comes to the rescue and absolutely stuffs it. That’s what robbing a home run feels like.
