Ball gets stuck in Green Monster, befuddling Masataka Yoshida in bizarre Red Sox moment

With the Inexperienced Monster in left area and odd dimensions elsewhere, Fenway Park has had its fair proportion of bizarre performs over its 111-year historical past.

However this one could be a primary.

Throughout the second inning of Wednesday’s contest between the Royals and Purple Sox, Kansas Metropolis’s Kyle Isbel hit a liner towards the Monster.

Purple Sox left fielder Masataka Yoshida ran again, leaped and crashed into the wall because the ball flew over his outstretched glove.

However when he recovered to get the ball again into the infield, the ball was nowhere to be discovered.

Yoshida spun in a circle — twice — earlier than he realized the ball wasn’t in play however had been wedged into a lightweight bulb used to maintain observe of the outs close to the underside of the wall.

The umpires dominated the play a ground-rule double, which stored Matt Duffy, the runner on first, from scoring.

The play appeared to idiot everybody within the park, together with WEEI radio broadcaster Joe Castiglione, who stated he’d by no means seen that in his 41 years calling Purple Sox video games.

“It’s caught inside the sunshine!” Castiglione after a number of seconds of silent confusion. “He couldn’t discover it. Have a look at this.

“Busting the sunshine and he thought it had bounced again and it was caught contained in the wall.”