Cruz: “As soon as he hits it, I thought, ‘I’ve got it. I’ve got it.’ It just kept going. I did what I was supposed to do. Maybe we were supposed to be playing closer to the wall, play no-doubles. Watching it, like I did, it was close to being a homer. It was a line drive. He crushed it. Pujols told me a few years ago, ‘People talk about it, but it was a line drive. I thought it was an easy out, but the ball kept going.’ The only different thing we could do about it was play no-doubles. That’s the only way I could have caught it.”
Excuses, Excuses, almost any other outfielder makes that play.