{"id":273980,"date":"2025-10-03T07:28:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T07:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/273980\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T07:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T07:28:14","slug":"ryan-mcmahon-flips-head-over-heels-into-red-sox-dugout-to-make-highlight-reel-catch-for-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/273980\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan McMahon flips head over heels into Red Sox dugout to make highlight-reel catch for Yankees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Ryan McMahon looked up and saw Jarren Duran&#8217;s foul popup veering toward the Boston bench.<\/p>\n<p>Without hesitation, the New York Yankees third baseman raced over. As he made a running catch, McMahon hit the padded railing and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/video\/jarren-duran-pops-out-softly-to-third-baseman-ryan-mcmahon-in-foul-territ?q=McMahon&amp;cp=CMS_FIRST&amp;qt=FREETEXT&amp;p=0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:flipped head over heels;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">flipped head over heels<\/a> into the Red Sox dugout, crashing to the ground while hanging onto the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Fortunate he didn&#8217;t get hurt, McMahon jumped right to his feet and quickly bolted out of enemy territory. He joined his happy teammates on the field as the crowd at Yankee Stadium roared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t feel anything,\u201d McMahon said. &#8220;Just kept rolling with the adrenaline, popped back up and I was just excited to make the play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McMahon&#8217;s courageous catch in the eighth inning Thursday night helped New York close out <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/yankees-red-sox-score-cam-schlittler-mlb-playoffs-61b7805c30f1a8c838c9654ccbc99029\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:a 4-0 win over Boston;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">a 4-0 win over Boston<\/a> in the deciding Game 3 of their AL Wild Card Series, advancing the Yankees to a best-of-five Division Series against Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>It was a play that brought back memories of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/video\/ryan-mcmahon-channels-inner-derek-jeter-in-game-3?q=McMahon&amp;cp=CMS_FIRST&amp;qt=FREETEXT&amp;p=0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:shortstop Derek Jeter\u2019s famous grab;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">shortstop Derek Jeter\u2019s famous grab<\/a> for New York when he sprinted to snare Trot Nixon&#8217;s popup and crashed into the Yankee Stadium seats along the left-field line in the 12th inning of a game against the Red Sox on July 1, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>McMahon, however, wasn&#8217;t about to compare the two web gems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not going to do that. Completely different scale,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>OK, perhaps Jeter&#8217;s headfirst dive into the stands was more dangerous. But the stakes in this game were significantly higher.<\/p>\n<p>McMahon\u2019s highlight-reel catch secured the second out of the eighth for <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/cam-schlittler-yankees-red-sox-mlb-playoffs-055ad837559ad96460a749057b5f854a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:rookie starter Cam Schlittler, who struck out 12;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">rookie starter Cam Schlittler, who struck out 12<\/a> in a dominant playoff performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just chasing it down,\u201d McMahon said. \u201cAll of a sudden I was going over the rail. Just glad to get the catch, get the out for Cam. He was rolling, so I just wanted to keep his momentum going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>McMahon didn&#8217;t start for the second time in the series because the Red Sox started a left-hander on the mound. He entered on defense in the sixth for Amed Rosario with the Yankees protecting a lead.<\/p>\n<p>Two innings later, McMahon left his mark on a memorable game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnreal. Glad he\u2019s OK,\u201d teammate Giancarlo Stanton said. \u201cJust shows how good he is, how hard he plays.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McMahon ran 75 feet to complete the catch \u2014 with a hard somersault landing at the end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was amazing,\u201d Schlittler said.<\/p>\n<p>McMahon, an All-Star last year, was acquired in a trade from the last-place Colorado Rockies on July 23 to solidify New York\u2019s defense at third base and provide another left-handed bat.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He hit .208 in 54 regular-season games for the Yankees but had a .971 fielding percentage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s plays like that in crunch time, that\u2019s why you go out and get a guy like that,\u201d New York captain Aaron Judge said.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Ryan McMahon looked up and saw Jarren Duran&#8217;s foul popup veering toward the Boston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":273981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[3090,63145,2731,40617,1283,47071,10626,25268,1266,405,2228,3959,32076,62,8790,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-273980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-aaron-judge","9":"tag-amed-rosario","10":"tag-boston","11":"tag-cam-schlittler","12":"tag-colorado-rockies","13":"tag-derek-jeter","14":"tag-giancarlo-stanton","15":"tag-jarren-duran","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-yankees","19":"tag-red-sox","20":"tag-ryan-mcmahon","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-toronto","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115309058729013889","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}