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I’ve seen a baby open its eyes for the first time. I’ve driven through a hailstorm inside of a fog bank. I once watched the sun rise over the Blue Ridge Mountains.

With that said, I don’t believe I’ve ever experienced something as deeply moving as the sight of Bartolo Colon chasing down A.J. Pierzynski like a bowlegged Komodo dragon after a field mouse.

The inimitable Mets pitcher notched an all-time moment for himself and the Internet at large on Thursday when he caught Pierzynski with his feet in the cookie jar and tracked the Atlanta Braves catcher down in a wild, almost surreal fashion.

Colon saw Pierzynski lead off first base and—pow!—shot after him like a furious but well-fed Archaeopteryx. Pierzynski didn’t seem to believe his own eyes when the Mets’ 41-year-old pitcher applied the tag on his hip. The catcher is likely to never hear the end of this—ever.

Someday, when it is his time, Pierzynski’s headstone will be marked with a tiny asterisk next to his laurels as a player, father and friend: “*Was once ran down like a dog by Dominican hero Bartolo ‘El Guapo' Colon.”





Dan is on Twitter, watching this video forever.