The 2022 Major League Baseball season may be not even a month old, but the MLB highlight reels are already filled with some great defensive plays. Those stellar defensive plays include three catches made by outfielders that have to be seen to be believed.
Here are the 3 best catches of the 2022 MLB season so far
Let’s start with the third-best catch, this one coming courtesy of Jake Marisnick of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Playing with his fifth different team since the start of the 2019 season, Marisnick has already shown how he can flash the leather in Pittsburgh. In an April 30 game against the San Diego Padres (the team that he played for last season), Marisnick made what we’re labeling as the third-best catch of the entire season when he robbed Ha-Seong Kim of a base hit in the top of the sixth inning.
Not to be outdone, Marisnick showed his defensive skills again just two innings later, stretching out to deny Trent Grisham.
Both of the catches were critical as the Pirates would eventually win the game 7-6 in 10 innings. Down 6-5 heading into the bottom of the 10th, Marisnick was the “ghost runner” at second who scored the tying run on a single up the middle by Ke’Bryan Hayes, who would eventually score the winning run on a Padres error.