SAN DIEGO — When Manny Machado made contact with the pitch, Tyler Clippard pivoted on the mound to turn toward center field, where the baseball was headed on a powerful arc.

Adam Jones raced toward the warning track in what looked like a futile chase: The heavy marine air would not turn this ball into an out, as it had so many others last week. So it was left to Jones, who leapt at the wall, plucked the ball out of the air as it was about to land in the stands, and brought the crowd at a sold-out Petco Park to its feet.

Clippard thrust his arms skyward and shouted, “Oh, my God!”

Machado, as he reached first base, doffed his cap to Jones, his Baltimore Orioles teammate.

The catch was the latest signature moment by Jones, who delivered a game-ending single against Colombia in the first round of the World Baseball Classic, hit a tying home run in a win over Venezuela on Wednesday and, with his catch, helped lift the United States to a 6-3 victory over the Dominican Republic, the defending champion, on Saturday night.