Jo Adell outdid himself on Saturday night with a defensive performance for the ages.
The Angels right fielder robbed not one, not two, but three home runs in L.A.'s 1-0 victory over the Mariners. Two of Adell's home run robberies occurred in the game's final two innings, preventing Seattle from tying the game.
"It's just one of those things where baseball can amaze you night in and night out," Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh said. "You can see something you've never seen before. The game, it's amazing. I've never seen that."
"It was the Jo Show," added Angels manager Kurt Suzuki.
Let's look back at the "Jo Show" with a breakdown of Adell's spectacular night in the field, one home run robbery at a time.
The first catch
Adell didn't waste much time robbing his first home run on Saturday night, and he took it away from one of baseball's premier power hitters. Cal Raleigh stepped into the box as the second batter of the game and made a strong bid for his first home run of the season. Raleigh ripped a slider from Jack Kochanowicz, sending it on a line to right field and driving Adell back to the wall, a Statcast-projected 370 feet.
What was Kochanowicz thinking?
"Oh shoot, not again."
But Adell saved the day for the first time, reaching up above the yellow line and snagging the would-be homer, keeping Seattle off the board.
The second catch
Adell’s second home run robbery of the night looked an awful lot like his first. Mariners first baseman Josh Naylor teed off on a hanging slider from Sam Bachman, launching a 368-foot blast into right field. Once again, Adell raced back towards the wall, where he leapt high above the yellow line to reel back Naylor's potential game-tying homer. This time, Adell preserved a narrow one-run lead in the eighth inning, easing Bachman through a scoreless outing.
"After the first one, we were pretty fired up out there," Adell said. "And then got the second one, which looked identical to the first one, and I was like, 'Wow, my routes are on point tonight.'"
The third catch
The third one, Adell said postgame, was just grit.
The Angels clenched their 1-0 lead into the ninth inning, with Jordan Romano bidding for his third save on the young season. Mariners shortstop J.P. Crawford -- playing in just his second game after opening the year on the injured list -- looked like he was going to play hero, launching a high arcing fly ball into the right-field corner. It traveled 342 feet and hung in the air as Adell drifted into the corner, where he reached out for the ball and subsequently launched himself into the stands.
"You just get there and it's kind of decision-making," Adell said. "I think step one is just getting to the spot, and the ball was hit high enough where I could get there. ... I just got there and was able to watch it and then fall over. I ended up in somebody's lap, softer landing than I thought."
For a moment, Adell disappeared from view of the camera. When he re-emerged, he had the ball in his glove, which he lifted in the air amid a rousing ovation from the Angel Stadium faithful.
"I don't think I've ever gone from so sad to so happy so quickly," Romano said. "... The pitchers owe him a little gift, I think."
A replay review confirmed the catch.
Torii Hunter -- a nine-time Gold Glove Award winner and one of the best defensive outfielders of all time -- compared the final catch to a movie scene.
"I was so excited, jumping up and down, I almost passed out," Hunter said. "I'm 50. I can't have that kind of pressure. It was amazing, man. It was the greatest defensive game I've ever seen."
MLB.com's Rhett Bollinger and Daniel Kramer contributed to this story.
