ATLANTA — Minutes after the best highlight of Monday’s Home Run Derby, Sam Musterer stood against a wall in the Atlanta Braves’ bullpen. He held his phone up to his ear, replaying the video that was already blowing up.
His hands were still shaking from the adrenaline.
Musterer is the kid who robbed — at least for a moment — a home run from Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Junior Caminero in the final round of the Home Run Derby. Musterer tracked a hard line drive and leaped at the left field wall.
“I wasn’t quite aware of where I was on the fence,” Musterer said. “I thought the fence was a little taller there. I kind of just reached up and grabbed it.”
Bro did NOT want Junior Caminero to win the Derby 😭 pic.twitter.com/JmBXNLaeLK
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Musterer, 17, was on the field for the Home Run Derby, he said, because his father, Richard, is an official scorer at Braves games. Richard also regularly broadcasts Georgia Tech sports games. Sam Musterer attends Pope High School in Marietta, Ga., and plays baseball for the East Side Chargers select team. He’s a right-handed pitcher and center fielder, but said he’s never made a play like that before.
“Not in a game, no,” he said, still smiling in the moment.
Umpires on the field ruled the ball a home run, so there was no real drama involved. But amid a tight final round, it briefly seemed like Musterer’s gem could have impacted the derby’s outcome.
“I would have thrown him out of the game,” Brandon Lowe, Caminero’s Rays teammate, joked after the derby. “I should have run out there and dragged him off.”
Cal Raleigh still became the eventual champion, hoisting a trophy and winning a chain and a championship belt.
Musterer’s highlight play, however, will live online for years to come.
“Ah yeah, I paid him off,” Raleigh joked before admitting, “I didn’t see it.”
Johnny Flores Jr. and Jayson Stark contributed to this report.
(Photo: Kevin C. Cox / Getty Images)
