A South Carolina high school baseball player had no desire to become another victim of the jump-over-the-catcher-to-score routine, one we saw brilliantly in the Tulane-Xavier game last weekend. Keenan Graham of Lake City High School (South Carolina) was thrown out by a mile when Wilson High School catcher Mason Park corralled the throw. Instead of simply sliding innocently to his demise, Graham elected for the leap.
And he was completely denied, as beautifully documented in this frame-by-frame account by Veasey Conway of the Morning News Online:

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