The Milwaukee Brewers won a crazy game on Saturday over the San Diego Padres, in Game 1 of their National League Division Series. Milwaukee outfielder Jackson Chourio caught a fly ball after it hit a roof cable, to help win the game.
Following the game, Chourio spoke about that wild sequence.
“I thought I had a chance on that ball kind of the whole time off the bat,” Chourio said through the team interpreter, per ESPN. “Then the only thing I kind of realized, it changed direction a little bit, but I thought I had a beat on it for the majority of the time.”
Padres batter Ty France hit that ball in the air. He thought it was going to be a home run. San Diego would lose the game to the Brewers, 3-2.
“I stood there and watched it, and it was going [out],” France said. “It was staying fair. It hit a wire, took a right and the guy caught it.”
France was pleading his case after the game, but he wasn't able to change the outcome. San Diego had a 2-0 lead in the contest at one point.
Article Continues Below“You would think with all the technology and data and everything we have now, we'd be able to make a clear call on that,” France said. “I don't know if that's ever been done before. We've got ball tracking, we've got exit velocity, we've got projected distances. We have all that stuff.”
There is a dispute over whether that ball was even going to be fair. Milwaukee felt the ball was headed toward foul territory.
“It was going to be a foul ball for sure,” Brewers manager Pat Murphy said.
San Diego and Milwaukee are playing Game 2 of the NLDS at time of writing. During the regular season, Milwaukee won the National League Central.