Rays Catcher Francisco Mejía Comically Failed to Catch a Curveball and MLB Fans Had Jokes

A catcher in baseball has a lot of responsibilities when they are crouched down behind home plate. The most obvious one is to catch the baseball.

While that in theory sounds like an easy thing for a catcher to do, it can often be very difficult and lead to brutal mistakes.

If you need more proof of that then look at what happened to Tampa Bay Rays catcher Francisco Mejía during Wednesday night’s game against the Arizona Diamondbacks. The poor fella got mixed up on a curveball thrown by Pete Fairbanks and he hilariously failed in his attempt to catch the ball.

Check this out:

strike one 😂 pic.twitter.com/thgJCNBiM7
— Codify (@CodifyBaseball) June 29, 2023

MLB fans had jokes.

It’s like the kid in Happy Gilmore who goes in the batting cages after Happy and collapses after getting hit with the ball https://t.co/uw68aCkcOO
— Andy Pettittes Big Nose (@BigNosePettitte) June 29, 2023

When the pitcher goes rogue on PitchCom? Lololol https://t.co/h4AUztygfv
— It will always be Twiiitter to me (@rwe123) June 29, 2023

Some catchers are just really good at framing pitches. https://t.co/ddUzMEk9QJ
— Brad in Vernon (@Theonlystowie) June 29, 2023

I Imagine this is what I would look like trying to catch a curveball https://t.co/N5IE7xqQYv
— Stuart Kovacs (@StuKSports) June 29, 2023

This is one of the craziest things I’ve seen this season, how do you get this crossed up 😂 https://t.co/k11AJSLAo2
— Aidan Holler (@aidan_holler) June 29, 2023

You know it’s a good pitch when you fool your own catcher https://t.co/D0cqfQjJbN
— Dropped (@mcantmiss) June 29, 2023

Never seen a catcher fooled on the pitch https://t.co/oAbl17vcxT
— benjamin (@LakerGang08) June 29, 2023