Consider it another chapter in the Baltimore Orioles’ 2026 campaign, one that started with anticipation after the club landed Pete Alonso in free agency, drifted into disappointment, and, most recently, resulted in a light sell-off at the trade deadline.Needing one win to reach .500 on the season, center fielder Colton Cowser called game in Baltimore’s 2-1 win over the Colorado Rockies on Monday. Using every inch of his 6-foot-3 frame, the 2021 first-round pick leaped at the wall of Coors Field to rob Jake McCarthy of what would have been a walk-off two-run home run.
COLTON COWSER GAME-ENDING HOME RUN ROBBERY 🤯 pic.twitter.com/wHivffl0Fu
— MLB (@MLB) September 1, 2026Catch of his life?“Situation and probably level of difficulty, yes,” Cowser told reporters postgame. “But I had one still, it was in Triple A in Norfolk on a 10-foot wall that I was able to rob. So, but that one was — this one was better, for sure.”Even former O’s outfielder Adam Jones, who was inducted into the team’s Hall of Fame last year, celebrated Cowser’s efforts in a post on the social media site X, calling it one of the best catches he’s ever seen. Jones, a four-time Gold Glove winner, knows a thing or two about spectacular robberies.
