Fly Ball Catch + Outfield Ad = Trippy Optical Illusion

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Cleveland Indians right fielder Carlos Moncrief catches a fly ball hit by Cincinnati Reds' Kristopher Negron at the right field wall in the seventh inning of an exhibition baseball game in Goodyear, Ariz., Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014.

Image: Paul Sancya/Associated Press

By Sam Laird2014-02-28 03:40:25 UTC

During the seventh inning of an MLB spring training game in Arizona on Wednesday, Cleveland Indians right fielder Carlos Moncrief made an excellent, one-handed catch of a fly ball ... while running straight into someone's tastefully-appointed kitchen.

Actually, not quite — but that's what you would imagine happened in the photo above.

Moncrief made his catch just before running into the right-field wall at Goodyear Ballpark — a wall that happens to host a very large ad for the home-building company K. Hovnanian Homes. The company, featured on sports blogs across the web Thursday, may want to consider cutting a little commission check for Moncrief — a minor leaguer who hasn't made the bigs since first being drafted out of Hillcrest Christian High School in Jackons, Miss., in 2007 — for its resulting publicity.

Here's one more photo of the optical illusion, taken a moment after the previous shot.

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