A catcher for a youth baseball team became an internet sensation over the weekend after a video showing the player engulfed in a swirling “dustnado” went viral.
In the video, the hitter can clearly be seen fleeing the twisting dust cloud. The catcher, however, did not run away. The result? The catcher was trapped in the dust cloud before being rescued by the nearby umpire.
One of the more interesting aspects of the video is the fact that everyone else on the field barely even reacts to the “dustnado.” Making it highly likely that this is not the first dustnado the players and coaches have encountered.
Twitter users, however, were plenty shocked by the event.
Some had fun with the incident.
In any event, we didn’t lose any catchers on this day and everyone can breathe a sigh of relief over that.