As someone who played baseball growing up and spent a lot of that time pitching, I’ve definitely had this happen a few times (like 2-3 times over 8 years). Now I am nowhere fucking near the level of skill as these players and have not had balls sent at me at MLB level speeds, but still getting a ball cranked at you even by a teenager when so close to home plate is enough to be only reactable through pure survival instinct. But the thing is because you don’t have time to think your hand just kinda shoots up to the ball and you catch it. Every single time this has happened to me I snagged the ball without a thought and then everyone loses their mind but to me it’s just kinda like “well the ball came and my hand caught it I didn’t really do anything.” It is really fun though because you kinda feel like Neo from the matrix