College outfielder has Jose Canseco-like blunder as fly ball bounces off his head for improbable home run

Across each sports and each levels, coaches archer their players to usage their heads. However, Highland halfway fielder Jake Shields utilized his caput successful a wholly antithetic consciousness and had a Jose Canseco moment.

In Highland’s 8-4 nonaccomplishment to Butler successful the archetypal crippled of a doubleheader connected Thursday astatine McDonald Stadium successful Kansas, Butler designated hitter Tanay Vyas deed a precocious alert shot to right-center tract with a runner connected archetypal basal with 2 outs successful the bottommost of the 3rd inning.

Shields ran implicit to marque the play, shielding the prima with his mitt and his sunglasses, but wholly misjudged the ball. Instead of catching the alert ball, it landed connected his caput and bounced implicit the partition for an improbable location tally to marque it 3-1.

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Former Oakland Athletics subordinate Jose Canseco speaks to fans arsenic the Athletics inducted him into the team's Hall of Fame earlier the crippled against the San Francisco Giants successful Oakland, California, connected Aug. 17, 2024. (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)

Shields’ blunder was reminiscent of Jose Canseco’s infamous outfielder blunder successful 1988. Carlos Martinez, a designated hitter for the Cleveland Indians, deed a alert shot to the informing way successful close field.

Canseco, an outfielder for the Texas Rangers astatine the time, ran to the partition to effort to drawback the ball, but missed it. The shot deed disconnected his caput and bounced up and implicit the partition for a location run.

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Former Oakland Athletics outfielder Jose Canseco stands connected the tract earlier the crippled against the Los Angeles Angels astatine Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum successful Oakland, California, connected July 21, 2024. (Darren Yamashita/USA TODAY Sports)

Shields was good abbreviated of the informing way successful the outfield erstwhile the shot deed his head, meaning the shot bounced astatine slightest 30 feet disconnected his caput and implicit the partition for a two-run location run. The assemblage shot subordinate bent implicit and held his head.

"Oh! Right disconnected his forehead," the announcer said. "Oh my, Jake Shields is going to consciousness that for a agelong time."

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Former Oakland Athletics outfielder Jose Canseco sits successful the dugout earlier the crippled against the San Francisco Giants astatine Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum successful Oakland, California, connected Aug. 17, 2024. (Darren Yamashita/USA TODAY Sports)

The main quality betwixt Shields’ and Canseco’s miscues were however acold the shot bounced disconnected their heads. Canseco was close adjacent to the wall, portion Shields wasn’t adjacent adjacent the informing track.

Unfortunately for Highland, Shields’ blunder was the opening of a pugnacious four-game bid against the Butler Grizzlies, arsenic they swept the series.

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