VIDEO: Super Kolten Wong Starts Cardinals Double Play With Unreal Glove Flip
By Brendan Azoff
If you blink, you may miss this ball enter and then exit the glove of Cardinals second baseman Kolten Wong. His spectacular effort started a double play in the third inning of Sunday's game against the Angels, and is simply dazzling stuff to watch.
What a flawless play by Kolten Wong. ? pic.twitter.com/HYEfJdCaDE
— Chris Dixon (@cdixon25) June 23, 2019
There was only one way a double play could have been turned on this slow chopper, and Wong had to be perfect with the glove flip. Plays like this one get overlooked because of how simple they might look at first glance, but the degree of difficulty here is astronomical.
Kolten Wong with touch-pass to Paul DeJong for the double play that brings the crowd to its feet -- and then it gets to stay there for another ovation as Pujols comes to the plate. That was a remarkable redirection of a grounder without actually catching it for Wong. #Cardinals
— Derrick Goold (@dgoold) June 23, 2019
In a game which was billed as Albert Pujols' last in St. Louis, Kolten Wong has decided to steal the show.