Daulton Varsho catch: Blue Jays outfielder adds to career highlight reel with unreal backwards grab vs. Red Sox

Daniel Mader

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Daulton Varsho catch: Blue Jays outfielder adds to career highlight reel with unreal backwards grab vs. Red Sox image

Daulton Varsho made his season debut for the Blue Jays on Tuesday night, and he made sure to bring some fireworks in his return.

Varsho, who had been held out of action due to a shoulder injury he suffered last August, had a deep fly ball tracking toward him in center field in the fourth inning against the Red Sox.

After initially stumbling and losing the baseball, he wound up making one of the greatest catches of the 2025 season and perhaps one of the most improbable snags the sport has ever seen.

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Here's a look at Varsho's catch Tuesday against Boston, some of the outfielder's other career highlights, and how much hardware he's previously won in the outfield.

Daulton Varsho's catch vs. Red Sox

In his first game of the 2025 season, Varsho appeared destined for a massive blunder in center field when Jarren Duran hit a deep fly ball to center field in Rogers Centre.

When he reached the warning track, Varsho fell on his back, rolled, quickly got back up on his right knee, then made a last-second stab at the baseball.

He caught it, much to the disbelief of everybody else in the stadium.

Here's a closer look: 

Daulton Varsho catch reactions

Plenty of fans on social media immediately regarded Varsho's tumbling grab one of the best they've ever seen. Here are some of the reactions across the baseball world to the catch:

Daulton Varsho best career catches

Varsho's unreal catch on Tuesday was the latest, and arguably the best, impressive snag in his six-year MLB career.

Towards the beginning of last season, he leaped at the wall in left-center field vs. San Diego for a standout grab.

In July 2024, he sprinted full speed at the left field wall in Seattle, crashing into it as he made a terrific catch against the Mariners.

Later on in the season, he did it yet again, crashing into the wall to rob the Orioles' Gunnar Henderson of a hit.

Here's another impressive catch Varsho made in 2024 to prevent a Shohei Ohtani hit:

Daulton Varsho Gold Gloves

Given the amount of acrobatic and simply unreal catches he makes, it's only right that Varsho has some hardware to show for it.

He was given a 2024 AL Gold Glove award for the Blue Jays, joining Wilyer Abreu of the Red Sox and Steven Kwan of the Guardians among AL outfielders to earn the honor.

Daniel Mader

Daniel Mader joined Sporting News as an editorial intern in 2024 following his graduation from Penn State University. Previously, he covered Penn State, high school and local sports beats for NBC Sports, the Centre Daily Times, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Daily Collegian and LancasterOnline. He grew up in Lancaster, Penn., with a love for baseball that’ll never fade, but could also talk basketball or football for days.