From ‘jo Show’ To ‘oh No’: Angels Outfielder Revives José Canseco Meme By Giving Up Homer Off His Head

Nothing could perchance make a header Tuesday nighttime erstwhile nan worst American League squad — nan Angels — played big to nan possibly nan worst National League squad — nan Colorado Rockies.

Except. . .

This.

A alert shot conked Angels correct fielder Jo Adell connected nan caput and bounced complete nan obstruction for a location run, reminding fans of José Canseco’s akin gaffe 33 years ago.

Adell chased TJ Rumfield’s fourth-inning thrust onto nan Angel Stadium informing way and reached up to drawback it. The shot grazed his mitt earlier bouncing squarely connected his noggin and complete nan wall.

The shot caromed backmost into nan outfield and Rumfield momentarily stopped astatine 2nd base. But nan umpires confirmed nan location run, coupling Adell pinch Canseco successful galore societal media posts.

Canseco, the steroids-fueled, defensively challenged near fielder of nan Texas Rangers, made a akin blunder connected May 26, 1993, erstwhile a shot deed by Cleveland’s Carlos Martínez bounced disconnected his caput and complete nan wall.

Mike Trout presumably has witnessed each imaginable blooper, blunder and boo-boo successful 16 seasons pinch nan woeful Angels. The halfway fielder stood only a fewer feet from Adell erstwhile this 1 occurred and did not make himself disposable for remark afterward.

To his credit, Adell faced reporters.

“It looks for illustration I’ve ne'er played successful nan section before, which is disappointing, because it’s beyond nan truth,” he said. “I’m nan only 1 that really knows what happened. I was retired there, and it happened to me, truthful it is what it is.

“It was benignant of nan icing connected nan cake, because I was [expletive] each nan measurement astir nan full time today.”

Adell was hitless successful 4 at-bats, striking retired twice, successful nan 8-2 nonaccomplishment that dropped nan Angels to 23-39, nan worst grounds successful nan AL.

The play was emblematic of Adell’s seven-year profession pinch nan Angels, who made him a first-round draught prime successful 2017. At first blush, his life Wins Above Replacement of 0.3 would bespeak that he’s small amended than nan fictional insignificant convention “replacement player” to which MLB players are compared successful calculating nan statistic.

Yet Adell’s beingness devices and occasional highlights shriek stardom. He shouldn’t beryllium an mean Jo. The antithesis of nan embarrassing section Tuesday nighttime came little than 2 months agone erstwhile he robbed nan Seattle Mariners of 3 location runs successful 1 game.

“It was nan Jo Show,” Angels head Kurt Suzuki said astatine nan time. “This feline useful arsenic difficult arsenic anybody I’ve ever been around. His activity ethic, attraction to detail, his desire to amended each azygous day. To spot him do that, I don’t judge you’ll spot that again.”

Suzuki, who was Adell’s teammate successful 2021 and 2022, apt ne'er thought he would spot a alert shot bounce disconnected nan outfielder’s caput and into nan stands, nan Jo Show shifting to Oh, No!

“I saw nan play, but for me, Jo’s made awesome strides defensively from erstwhile I played pinch him,” Suzuki said Tuesday. “And obviously, he had nan nighttime he robbed 3 location runs. It was a reliable play tonight, but astatine nan aforesaid time, nan strides that he’s made defensively person been great.”

Adell was considered a protect liability early successful his profession and was saddled pinch a four-base correction successful 2020 erstwhile a alert shot deed his mitt and went complete nan fence. But he steadily improved and became a Gold Glove Award finalist successful 2024.

That didn’t extremity nan “Tarps Off” throng of shirtless fans astatine Angel Stadium from chanting Adell’s sanction aft nan gaffe against nan Rockies. For his sake, they apt will revert to imploring Angels proprietor Arte Moreno to “sell nan team” soon enough.

Adell mightiness person to enactment distant from societal media forever, but he would for illustration to hide nan shot bouncing disconnected his caput arsenic soon arsenic possible.

“That’s what we person to do,” he said. “I mean, there’s really nary different measurement astir it. Let it fester and tumble over, but these are plays I’ve made hundreds and thousands of times. I’ve sewage to conscionable support going, and arsenic a team, we’ve sewage to support going.”