Catch of the year? J.B. Shuck leaps into crowd to rob homer

We've seen several outfielders reach over the wall to rob home runs this year -- but throwing your entire body up and over to make a catch?

Ladies and gentlemen, meet Angels left fielder J.B. Shuck. If you hadn't seen his work before, you have now -- and will continue to on highlight reels forever after Shuck robbed Jose Bautista of a home run in the fourth inning of Saturday's Blue Jays-Halos game. That ball was gone. It was over the fence. It was ... 

CAUGHT!

If you're worrying about whether this catch should have been allowed, don't. Rule 7.04(c) of baseball's official rules states that a catch can be legal even if a fielder falls into the stands. The same rule also says that if this happens, the ball is dead and all runners are allowed to advance one base. So Maicer Izturis, who had been on first, went to second.

"You don't play many baseball games where there's a catch like that," Shuck's teammate Kole Calhoun told the L.A. Times afterward. You also don't play many baseball games where, as you might have noticed from the video, a player's spikes briefly endanger a fan's clothing. "I think my foot got caught in someone's shirt trying to get out," Shuck said, "so hopefully I didn't rip it up."

All Shuck ripped up was Toronto's designs on winning the game. In addition to his amazing catch, he also went 3-for-4 with a double and a game-tying triple. Calhoun, went 4-for-5 with the decisive homer in Los Angeles' 7-5 win.