CLEVELAND — Eli White was at it again Tuesday night. For the second time in as many weeks, the outfielder made the catch of the year. Maybe two of them.
A week ago, White won MLB’s Electric Play of the Week Award for his home run-robbery of Tampa Bay’s Ji-Man Choi in which his glove was extended a good six feet above the six-foot wall in center field at Globe Life Field.
In Tuesday’s second game, after the Rangers fell to the Guardians 6-3 in Game 1, White didn’t scale any walls, but he went deep into both the right- and left-field gaps to steal extra-base hits from Cleveland’s José Ramirez with sliding catches. Ramirez drove a ball to right center in the first on which White lunged with his back mostly to the ball to make a grab on the warning track. In the fourth, he went towards the left field gap to make a similar catch.
