‘How the hell did you do that?’: Braves’ Michael Harris II and the art of making highlight-reel catches

Grant Holmes could not believe what he witnessed. The brave starts at the back of his blue Atlantic Atlantic atlanta. Frequently insidious Mattson emphasized Harris, recognizing the play that few could do.

It happened at the bottom of the fourth side of the Brasis, the Meeting with the May 12 play. Along with Atlantic, Holmes left the 3-2 curve ball, which caught a lot in the middle of the plate and Luis Garsoga Jr..

Harris turned a little slightly, opening as if the ball hit the right center. Most of the center’s fields would be burned by that small mistake, but Harris is not the fields of the center and rarely deceive. Sometimes it just takes a short bypass. Thus, Harris, noticing the ball, which did not perform the curve on the right shoulder until the field of action. Instead, he turned his right shoulder from the ball, while sliding returned his distance from the wall. Then Harris, the left, found the wall, extended his hand straight out and took the third, the third.

“There is a worried to be able to adapt. He feels the wall knowing where you are, knowing when your feet fall, “said Olson. “It simply came to our notice then. He never left out of control. ”

The control side is a sight. Harris is not necessarily a burner, but his jumps are made, feeling, and pace, he plays in everyone in the game. He lends a loan against his football background to help him be an abroad in the outside.

“I think it just comes from working in the practice of bathing and have a corner corner and a wide recipient’s background,” said Harris. “I know how to reach the place and adjust my ads.”

Harris comes out with the former courage of the former courtyard Markis Grissom during the offseason. They run routes, read, even sound.

“I think many people underestimate the sound of the bat,” said Harris. “You have to listen to it, see it, and it is supposed to predict where it will be. So just listening to the place that is going to land, plus the corner and trajectory.

If you are not at Harris’s level that few are very important to digest it. Harris is not only natural, but also working, always wants to read correctly and even predict mistakes so that he can work on proper adjustment.

“I said the next day,” How do you do it? ” And he goes. “I did every day,” said Brian Snither, Brian Briller’s manager. “All that weird catch is doing it just to force it.” How the hell did it? ”

Although this is an ordinary case, Haris’s plays always leave their teammates in fear. He is a game-changer, although he does not hit his capabilities. Harris swims only in the form of 203 plates, and the courts are low .500 (24-25) as On Friday, they welcome Ronald Acuña Jr.A number but the ability to take away the “disappointment” of Harris is a great weapon for Atlanta.

On May 17, the Matchup was drilled against Red Sox, Trevor Story, which seemed to be doubled to the right center of the center. The walls in that part of Fonway are low and notorious to get out of the guard, often because of a blind spot that leads to unexpected collisions.

However, Harris partially defines his routes with his spatial awareness. It requires more than once, taking your eye out of the ball, some can perform effectively. Harris this time prepared to read properly, not inflamed speed, but through the PACE, reliability, assurances and protuberance, which can only be mastered through preparation.

“There are balls that have been hit, and I think it may be satisfied,” said Riley, the third Basti Riley of Bravs. “And he just closes the distance so easy. It’s so fast. I think it’s the awareness of his body right where he is on the field. He’s just special talent. ”

In some cases, the data pushes the eye test and talent. Harris occupies an 87th rate, so far this season for field value: baseball savers and 94 percent.

“He is the best center I have ever played with,” Olson said.