Wednesday evening was massive for Diamondbacks rookie Slade Cecconi. The rookie made his debut for Arizona after being picked within the 2020 MLB Draft, and due to his catcher’s nuts he acquired his first strike out! Wait … what?

This needed to go to overview after a Diamondbacks problem. Initially the play was dominated as hit-by-pitch, however after checking it confirmed that the ball struck the knob of LaMonte Wade Jr’s bat, then ricocheted into catcher Jose Hererra’s nuts. So, in easy phrases this went ball-knob-nuts.

Maybe the very best a part of this was the post-game quote from Hererra, who was doubled over from being hit within the beans, however nonetheless managed to maintain his composure and grasp the ball betwixt his iron thighs.

“It wasn’t presupposed to be like that for his first strikeout,” Herrera mentioned with amusing. “It was good that we acquired it for him. I held the ball lengthy sufficient. I attempted to carry it with my pants so long as I might. It was the primary time in my profession that one thing like that occurred and I saved holding the ball. It was fairly particular.”

“I attempted to carry it with my pants so long as I might” must be enshrined as one of many nice phrases in sporting historical past.