Gravity wreaks havoc on Giants game as Welington Castillo makes bizarre backstop catch

FROM: Department of Temporal Gravity Fields

TO: Director of American Gravity, Bay Area Office

RE: Gravitational Anomalies in San Francisco Giants Game

Dear Director,

It has come to our attention that there was a massive gravitational displacement field during Sunday's D-backs-Giants game at AT&T Park. We first noticed this in the bottom of the first when one fan had a ball drop from his hands, bounce into the chairs beneath him and then rocket over the railing like it was some kind of bouncy ball. 

Of course, this seemed like a simple coincidence and so we thought nothing more of it. 

Six innings later, our GRAVITRON-3000 alerted us to another bizarre moment when Giants infielder Nick Noonan fouled a ball to the backstop in the bottom of the seventh inning. Instead of the ball simply falling to the ground and rolling away, like one would normally assume, it bounced directly into catcher Welington Castillo's glove as if it were attached to a string. 

While our analysts agreed that this was a peak gravitational anomaly, we could not be certain. After all, it could simply be a bizarre coincidence. 

But we could simply not ignore the reports when one fan made his second catch of the game in the eighth inning. After all, the odds of catching one ball is one in 1,189, so the odds of catching two are (carry the one, subtract the remainder) ... much higher. 

Even when it looked like the gravitational field had fixed itself on David Peralta's ninth-inning home run, that proved incorrect as just as quickly as the ball left the field, it came bounding back in: 

Our highly advanced regression analysis says that there is a 98.32 percent chance of an unstable, hypermanic localized gravitational vortex currently traveling through the Bay Area. Our recommendation is to invite all of baseball's best sluggers over for an impromptu Home Run Derby. Not that this would necessarily fix anything, but it sure would be fun to see, right? 

Sorry we can't be of more help. 

Best regards,

Mike, Assistant Gravitational Force Engineer