SI

Arizona’s Nick Ahmed Got the Wildest Hit of the MLB Season on a Pitch That Bounced Well Before the Plate

How’d he do that?

Andy Nesbitt

Arizona’s Nick Ahmed Got the Wildest Hit of the MLB Season on a Pitch That Bounced Well Before the Plate
Arizona’s Nick Ahmed Got the Wildest Hit of the MLB Season on a Pitch That Bounced Well Before the Plate /
In this story:

Being a hitter in Major League Baseball is hard enough these days with pitchers throwing all sorts of filthy stuff that moves across the plate at the last second and causes batters to look silly. 

Which makes what the Diamondbacks’ Nick Ahmed did in Tuesday night’s game against the Cardinals even more impressive: he hit a pitch that didn’t even make it to home plate. 

For real. 

Ahmed was somehow able to hit a ball that bounced well before the plate and knocked in a run with a wild double into left field. 

Check out the coolest hit of the MLB season: 

Ahmed's shrug after that was too good. So was his tweet about it following the game: 

Well played.

Published
Andy Nesbitt
ANDY NESBITT

Andy Nesbitt is the assistant managing editor of audience engagement at Sports Illustrated. He works closely with the Breaking and Trending News team to shape SI’s daily coverage across all sports. A 20-year veteran of the sports media business, he has worked for Fox Sports, For the Win, The Boston Globe and NBC Sports, having joined SI in February 2023. Nesbitt is a golf fanatic who desperately wants to see the Super Bowl played on a Saturday night.

Home/Extra Mustard