We should probably know better by now than to be surprised by Fernando Tatis Jr. and the things he can do on a baseball field. Even so, he pulled out a completely baffling new trick on Saturday.
The star Padres shortstop came to the plate in the eighth inning to face Astros reliever Joe Smith, and when an 0-2 sinker tailed into the batter's box, he found perhaps the most acrobatic way to avoid it potentially hitting his back knee. In a feat of flexibility, Tatis somehow pulled his right leg back before falling into the splits, a move more like something you would see on the dance floor than on a baseball diamond.
The effort certainly didn't go unnoticed.
The jury's still out on whether Tatis has practiced this move before, but judging by his huge game-tying home run off of Ryan Pressly just an inning later, the Padres shortstop is apparently no worse for wear.
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