Jake - As a baseball fan who is in attendance at numerous games a year in more than one city I do understand the effect lights and the sun might have on players.

I have also played in a Major League Stadium (Skydome which is now Rogers Centre here in Toronto) and numerous bright lighted stadiums during my baseball career and I've lost a ball in the lights/sun with a mask on my face (I was a catcher) on more than one occasion and I've still managed to come up with the ball.

Some of those plays came at the Little League level hence my Little League comment.

Use your glove as a shield against the lights and watch the ball off the crack of the bat and you'll find it almost everytime.

As far as Holliday is concerned he didnt even look like he lost it in the lights, the play looked more nonchalante than anything and he screwed up, unfortunately for him he had the bad luck of having it hit him square in the sack, too bad for Holliday!

Ummm... Jake I hate to break this to you, but these guys are paid mad dollars to make that catch regardless if there are lights, towels and the ball are white. He choked at the wrong time and to make matters worse the ball hit him in the sack. I didn't hear Holliday make excuses, so you shouldn't either.

guys shut up about little leagers making that catch u must have never been to a mlb game lights are real bright plus white towels so mlb lights+white towels+white ball=playoff last out=droped ball

Last year it was Holliday's face first slide into home plate.

This year he gets nutted on a fly ball I've seen Little Leaguers make.

I wonder if Holliday is trying to build up a library of blooper plays so he can sell a DVD collection of the series when he retires.

I was in the car listening to the ninth so I didn't actually get to see that one live, but when I heard Scully announce it on the radio I burst out laughing and thought this is our chance to turn this one around. I'm just glad Loney hustled on that fly ball and made it all the way to second base.

That play will probably be remembered like Bill Buckner getting 5 holed.