Masyn Winn Makes Jaw-Dropping Play Despite Cardinals’ Late Collapse vs. Yankees
If you only watch one play from this weekend’s Cardinals-Yankees series, make it this web gem. Masyn Winn turned what looked like a sure base hit into one of the most jaw-dropping defensive highlights of the season — gunning down a Yankees runner from the flat of his back.
Yes, you read that right. Off balance, on his butt, in no position to throw — Winn somehow managed to get enough on his throw to nail the runner at first. Busch Stadium erupted like the Cardinals had just walked it off rather than scoring the first out of the game.
Plays like this are why Winn is quickly becoming must-watch television:
Unfortunately for St. Louis, the final box score wasn’t as pretty as Winn’s play. The Yankees pulled away late for an 8-4 victory. Thus spoiling what had been a fantastic, back-and-forth game that resulted in a series sweep from the Bronx Bombers.
How It Happened:
- Miles Mikolas was not great through five innings, giving up three runs in the fourth and failing to make a quality start.
- The Cardinals fought back behind Thomas Saggese’s two-run double, Alec Burleson’s RBI knock, and a storybook Yohel Pozo homer with his custom Player’s Weekend bat (which you can bid on when it goes up for auction). By the fifth, St. Louis had grabbed a 4-3 lead on that Pozo home run.
- But the Yankees wouldn’t stay quiet. A Cody Bellinger sac fly tied things up in the seventh, and then the wheels came off in the ninth. JoJo Romero lost the strike zone, Saggese committed a pair of costly errors, and the Yankees piled on to put the game out of reach.
Still, for all the miscues, the moment everyone’s talking about is Winn’s defensive wizardry. Plays like that remind fans that even in a tough season, the Cardinals have a future star blossoming right in front of them.
That’s not the only time Masyn Winn came up huge defensively in the Yankees Series last weekend.
No matter the final score, this was the kind of play that keeps baseball electric.
