As Fenway Park met a milestone at last night’s game selling out the seats for the 500th time, another milestones came to an end.
In a game against the Florida Marlins, center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury dropped a fly ball in center field ending his streak of 232 games without an error. It was also his first ever error in his Major League Baseball career!
According to MassLive.com, in 2008, Ellsbury became the first rookie outfielder in major league history with a 1.000 fielding percentage, among those with enough chances to qualify for statistical ranking.
The line drive “shot” that was hit to the left-center gap, brushed the end of Ellsury’s glove and eventually rolled to the wall. At first, the scoring decision showed a double for Florida Marlins first basemen Jorge Cantu, but it was eventually changed to be recorded as an error.
Ellsbury made up for the error however, hitting his third homerun of the season shortly after.
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