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Noda’s no-look toss conjures reminiscences of good (and wacky!) performs

Ryan Noda makes wonderful between-the-legs no-look toss

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OAKLAND – A participant by no means desires to mishandle a routine grounder on protection. Had Ryan Noda not finished so on Monday evening, nonetheless, we by no means would have been graced with one of the dazzling performs in baseball to this point in 2023.

In the eighth inning of Oakland’s 5-2 loss to the D-backs on the Coliseum, a floor ball hit by Geraldo Perdomo kicked off Noda’s glove. Chasing it down after it ricocheted into foul territory, the primary baseman acted solely on instincts as he barehanded the ball and carried out an unimaginable no-look flip via his legs to A’s reliever Adrián Martínez at first base, beating Perdomo by a couple of full step.

“I was going for a backhand,” Noda mentioned. “Ball kicked back to the right and went right off my palm. I made a nice recovery. We needed that out. Adrián did a great job on getting over, so kudos to him in keeping his foot on the bag. It wasn’t just me. It was him getting over in time and being able to stretch for it.”

The seemingly atypical play that turned extraordinary harkened again reminiscences of a few related distinctive defensive gems in years previous. White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle made a between-the-legs glove flip to Paul Konerko at first base earlier than falling to the bottom in 2010. Bartolo Colon, whereas pitching for the Mets in 2015, fielded a gradual curler up the first-base line and executed an ideal behind-the-back flip to first base from about 40 ft out.

By the time Noda bought again to his locker after the sport, his cellphone was flooded with texts from his mates again house in Cincinnati of replays of his defensive spotlight.

“A couple of my buddies sent it to me,” Noda mentioned. “It’s funny. It’s just a rough fielding play turned into a good play, so I’ll take it.”

With the A’s now an MLB-worst 9-34 on the 12 months (the worst report in franchise historical past after 43 video games), Noda’s resilience proven on the play was actually appreciated by supervisor Mark Kotsay.

“I didn’t realize until the replay that he actually threw it between his legs,” Kotsay mentioned. “That’s a play where it goes really bad because it’s a pretty easy ground ball to field to his left. Instead of giving up on it, the effort level to continue to make that play and get the out says a lot about Ryan.”

For a rebuilding A’s squad that’s using 2023 as a method to establish gamers who may emerge as contributors past this season, Noda stands out as a brilliant spot, each defensively and offensively. Entering the evening, his .406 on-base share and 27 walks each led all Major League rookies, whereas his .824 OPS ranked fourth.

With a rebuild comes rising pains, and that was additionally evident on Monday.

Shortly after Noda’s wonderful play, the A’s mounting a late rally within the backside of the eighth. Jace Peterson’s leadoff homer to chop the deficit to a few runs was adopted by a stroll to Jordan Diaz and Nick Allen’s single, which introduced Esteury Ruiz to the plate because the doable tying run. But as Ruiz hit a popup into shallow left discipline that was caught, Diaz, who was on second base, ran on contact and was simply doubled as much as deflate the comeback bid.

“Just an error on his part,” Kotsay mentioned of Diaz. “Error in his judgment of the way he read the ball. Down by three, that’s too aggressive. At that point, he’s got to see the ball land on the ground before he takes off. It was a big play. Took the momentum from the game. He’ll learn from it.”

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