Brewers reliever makes unbelievable play while dodging screaming line drive at his face

Pitching in Major League Baseball seems terrifying. Your job is to throw a baseball into one relatively small area 60′ 6″ away, but it so happens that the exact same small area is the precise one that best allows the impossibly strong man in the batter’s box to hit that baseball as hard as he can with an actual baseball bat. And now you’re just marooned there, only 60′ 6″ away, and these monsters sometimes rip liners at triple-digit speeds right back up the middle. It’s astonishing that more pitchers don’t just go immediately go fetal after releasing the ball.

Anyway, look at this insane play Jeremy Jeffress made on a terrifying shot back up the box from Willians Astudillo in the Brewers’ 5-4 win over the Twins on Monday:

Jeffress hit the ground hard and remained there for a while as trainers came out to check on him, but he told reporters after the game that he was not physically hurt on the play. The out ended the fifth inning, and Jeffress did not return for the sixth at manager Craig Counsell’s discretion.