Rays Catcher Francisco Mejía Comically Failed to Catch a Curveball and MLB Fans Had Jokes

A catcher in baseball has a lot of responsibilities when they are crouched down behind home plate. The most obvious one is to catch the baseball. 

While that in theory sounds like an easy thing for a catcher to do, it can often be very difficult and lead to brutal mistakes. 

If you need more proof of that then look at what happened to Tampa Bay Rays catcher Francisco Mejía during Wednesday night’s game against the Arizona Diamondbacks. The poor fella got mixed up on a curveball thrown by Pete Fairbanks and he hilariously failed in his attempt to catch the ball.

Check this out: 

MLB fans had jokes.