A moment to be marked in baseball history forever!



An Osprey with a fish in his claws, was threatened by a pursuing bald eagle, causing the osprey to drop the fish behind second base. The fish was recovered by a Dolphin and removed from the field.pic.twitter.com/KF1F5N3GBV — NCAA Baseball (@NCAACWS) February 24, 2019

Mickey Mantle said, “It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life.” He was talking about baseball’s many nuances, but he could have easily been referring to Saturday’s game between Jacksonville State and Jacksonville University. The contest was briefly delayed in the eighth inning when a fish fell onto the field after two birds got into a tussle above the stadium. Gosh, if only Mickey were around to see it.

Please watch the above video with the sound on, as the play-by-play announcer demonstrates his impressive ornithological knowledge to provide some wonderful and enthusiastic commentary.

It has dropped a fish in the outfield! It’s an osprey out there that just dropped a fish out in shallow right field. And now a bald eagle has entered the scene and everything has come to a halt. The eagle comes in and chases the osprey away, makes him drop the fish. … Connor Stephens is going out into shallow right. Is he going to go try and get the fish before the eagle gets it? The eagle’s circling overhead, Stephens has the fish wrapped up in a towel, and he makes his way back over to the home dugout.

The wild event was immortalized in a tweet from the Jacksonville Baseball account, which credited the osprey with the error.

FISH DELAY | An Osprey just flew over John Sessions with a fish in his claws, but was threatened by a pursuing bald eagle, causing the osprey to drop the fish behind second base (Error).



The fish was recovered by a Dolphin and removed from the field.



Can't make this up folks. — Jacksonville Baseball (@JUBaseball) February 23, 2019

The Dolphins won 5-2 and clinched the series against Jacksonville State, but the real losers are the osprey and eagle for wasting a good meal at the ballpark.