Morning Box Score: Home Run Derby
AP Photo/Morry Gash
ESPN unveiled their newest toy, the Ball Tracker, which used Doppler Radar to track the ball's path through the air - think FOX's puck tracker from years ago. Thing is, the tracker's path resembled, at best, and MS Paint trail and had a hard time showing the actual location of the ball. (Note to ESPN: we complain because we love!)
Anyway. Watching Fielder jack all those homers last night - and seriously, can we get this thing down to a two-round event? - reminded us of the one big homer Fielder was denied back in April, courtesy of Cubs center fielder Reed Johnson, who robbed Fielder of a grand slam in what is still easily (***Marcus' Cubs Bias Alert!***) the best catch of the first half. Below is the only embeddable version we could find thanks to the copyright police; you can watch the high-quality version here.
