WATCH – One of the craziest homeruns you’ll ever see was hit by the Colorado Rockies
Jun 3, 2026, 1:31 PM
Let’s get this out of the way: The Colorado Rockies are improving, but still not very good. They’re 24-38, among the worst records in baseball. Nobody is confusing them with a playoff contender. But if you live in Colorado and you’ve been looking for a reason — any reason — to pay attention to the boys in purple, Tuesday night (June 2) in Anaheim delivered.
Rockies first baseman TJ Rumfield stepped up in the fourth inning against the Angels and drove a fly ball deep to right-center. Angels outfielder Jo Adell tracked it to the warning track, reached up — and the ball grazed the outside of his glove, bounced squarely off his forehead, and sailed over the wall for a home run.
Yes. Off his head. Over the fence. Home run, Rockies.
Rumfield, who apparently couldn’t believe it either, stopped at second base before the umpires confirmed the ruling and waved him around the bases. The Rockies were already up 7-0 at that point. They won 8-2. It barely mattered. The home run was the entire story.
The play instantly drew comparisons to José Canseco’s legendary 1993 gaffe, when a fly ball bounced off his head and over the fence at old Municipal Stadium in Cleveland — a moment so absurd it became one of baseball’s most replayed clips for three decades. Now Adell and Canseco share a fraternity nobody wants to join. “These are plays I’ve made hundreds and thousands of times,” Adell told the LA Times afterward. “I’ve got to just keep going.”
For Colorado fans, the Rumfield homer is the kind of moment that makes the Rockies worth following even in a lost season. You don’t need a winning record to produce a highlight that lands on every sports desk in the country. You just need a ball, a skull, and the right amount of luck. Rumfield, by the way, was just named NL Rookie of the Month for May, is hitting .286 with eight homers, and looks like the kind of young talent that gives the faithful at Coors Field something real to root for — even when the standings don’t cooperate.
So go ahead, pull up the clip at your desk. Send it to your group chat. Watch it on loop while you eat lunch on the 16th Street Mall. The Rockies may not be winning much this year, but they just gave Colorado one of the most fun sports moments of the summer — and all it took was a well-placed forehead.
