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The Twins’ Brian Dozier Defied Physics With The Craziest RBI Single We’ve Ever Seen

by Dylan Murphy | 4:10 pm, June 30th, 2012

Minnesota Twins’ shortstop Brian Dozier was batting today in the bottom of the 5th against the Kansas City Royals when something inexplicable happened. A 1-0 fastball rode in on Dozier’s hands and jammed him, and he only managed to knock the ball 45 feet up the first base line into foul territory. Except all of a sudden the ball, which was at least five feet foul, spun violently back into fair territory for an infield single. There’s really no sufficient way to explain this – only the video can do it justice. We don’t say this often, but you really need to see this.

Because Dozier ran hard out of the box, he beat the throw to first. But the best part about the whole thing was that Ryan Doumit, who was on second base at the time, managed to score, giving Dozier the RBI.

Video via CJ Fogler

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Dodgester

Might as well Brian Dozier had put some English on that ball like in billiards, but only in this case, without knowing it. It made me think of one time when I was throwing a ball to another person, who was really more like a big brother to me, that ball actually curved to him and I had no idea what I had done to cause that ball to curve to him. No other time have I ever done that throwing a baseball.