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Napoli’s ground-rule double clears 19-foot wall
- Updated: September 17, 2016
CLEVELAND — Clearing the towering left-field wall at Progressive Field is hard enough for a hitter. Doing so on a fly ball that does not leave the outfield would seemingly be impossible.
With an assist from the stadium lights, Mike Napoli found a way on Friday night.
In the first inning of a critical clash with the Tigers for Cleveland, Napoli drilled a pitch from Detroit starter Michael Fulmer high into left field. As the baseball began dropping toward the 19-foot wall, Tigers left fielder Justin Upton put his arms out at his sides, motioning that he had lost sight of the deep fly.
As Upton stood in the outfield grass, the baseball bounced on the warning track, shot up over the wall and sneaked through the black railing above the yellow line atop the …
