Former National League Rookie of the Year Chris Coghlan may not have turned out to be the superstar the Florida Marlins may have hoped he would become when he won the award in 2009, but he's had a successful nine-year career with four different teams. However, I don't think he ever thought he'd score a run in this Hollywood fashion.
On a double by Kevin Pillar in the seventh inning, the East Lake High School standout raced around from first base only to find Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina with the baseball ready to tag him out. So Coghlan did the only thing he could: he went up and over him!
It reminds me of the scene in Major League II when Willie Mays Hayes (played in this film by Omar Epps) tells Jack Parkman he wasn't going to slide if he had a chance to score and pulls off the same feat. The play is at the 1:45 mark in the video below.
Matt Carpenter of the Cardinals tried a similar tactic in 2015, and while successful, didn't get nearly the hang time of Coghlan's leap.
And perhaps the best hurdling of a catcher belongs to Fordham University's Brian Kownacki, who went up and over Iona catcher James Beck, also in 2015.
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