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Daulton Varsho made his season debut for the Blue Jays on Tuesday night, and he made sure to bring some fireworks in his return.
Varsho, who had been held out of action due to a shoulder injury he suffered last August, had a deep fly ball tracking toward him in center field in the fourth inning against the Red Sox.
After initially stumbling and losing the baseball, he wound up making one of the greatest catches of the 2025 season and perhaps one of the most improbable snags the sport has ever seen.
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Here's a look at Varsho's catch Tuesday against Boston, some of the outfielder's other career highlights, and how much hardware he's previously won in the outfield.
Daulton Varsho's catch vs. Red Sox
In his first game of the 2025 season, Varsho appeared destined for a massive blunder in center field when Jarren Duran hit a deep fly ball to center field in Rogers Centre.
When he reached the warning track, Varsho fell on his back, rolled, quickly got back up on his right knee, then made a last-second stab at the baseball.
He caught it, much to the disbelief of everybody else in the stadium.
— Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) April 30, 2025Here's a closer look:
— Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) April 30, 2025Daulton Varsho catch reactions
Plenty of fans on social media immediately regarded Varsho's tumbling grab one of the best they've ever seen. Here are some of the reactions across the baseball world to the catch:
usually when you see a highlight with a million OMG LOOK AT THIS CATCH captions you can start to envision what is going to happen as the play is unfolding but nope, not with this one!
good to have you back, Daulton Varshopic.twitter.com/tn1Dp6N0E9
Daulton Varsho What in the dude perfect is this catch lmaoooo https://t.co/RgaHpd1cb3 pic.twitter.com/P5zIOqAZ9H
— Zachary Miller (@zmilly223) April 30, 2025I've never seen anything like the catch Daulton Varsho just made.
He fell at the CF wall, rolled over, and made a backhand catch to rob Jarren Duran of a big hit.
Daulton Varsho proves that you never know what you’ll see at the ballpark on any given day. pic.twitter.com/FQQFQqOyms
— Andersen Pickard (@AndersenPickard) April 30, 2025HOW--- pic.twitter.com/ianiIVKdWe
— MLB (@MLB) April 30, 2025Daulton Varsho best career catches
Varsho's unreal catch on Tuesday was the latest, and arguably the best, impressive snag in his six-year MLB career.
Towards the beginning of last season, he leaped at the wall in left-center field vs. San Diego for a standout grab.
According to MLB, this play made by Daulton Varsho had a 5% catch probability#TOTHECORE pic.twitter.com/1eVO48iYw9
— Sportsnet Stats (@SNstats) April 20, 2024In July 2024, he sprinted full speed at the left field wall in Seattle, crashing into it as he made a terrific catch against the Mariners.
— Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) July 6, 2024Later on in the season, he did it yet again, crashing into the wall to rob the Orioles' Gunnar Henderson of a hit.
— Thomas Nestico (@TJStats) December 21, 2024Here's another impressive catch Varsho made in 2024 to prevent a Shohei Ohtani hit:
Another day, another big play catch from Daulton Varsho 🤩 pic.twitter.com/zEFHQlWVz8
— Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) April 28, 2024Daulton Varsho Gold Gloves
Given the amount of acrobatic and simply unreal catches he makes, it's only right that Varsho has some hardware to show for it.
He was given a 2024 AL Gold Glove award for the Blue Jays, joining Wilyer Abreu of the Red Sox and Steven Kwan of the Guardians among AL outfielders to earn the honor.
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