Remember that name Dodgers (and baseball) fans – it’s Jonny Deluca, no h.

You can bet that Texas Rangers center fielder Leody Taveras and Rangers second baseman Marcus Semien will remember it – forever.

All the 25-year-old Thousand Oaks, CA native and Dodgers 25th-round draft pick in 2019 out of the University of Oregon did in only his 21st major league game was make two spectacular catches – back-to-back – in center field for the team that he grew up watching.

Deluca’s first impossible catch was a diving catch to his right on a line drive hit by Taveras that had double (or triple) written all over it. But instead, Deluca left his feet going completely horizontal to make a catch that we will be seeing on highlight reels for years to come.

But wait, there’s more!

Semien, the Rangers very next batter, hit a line drive to very deep left-center field on which Deluca made a leaping catch against the wall to rob the Rangers All-Star infielder of what absolutely positively would have been his 14th home run of the season.

“The first one, I was very surprised I caught it. I just ran as hard as I could, courtesy dive, and it ended up going in the glove,” a humble Deluca told SportsNet LA’s Kirsten Watson postgame. “I feel like the second one, I made it harder than it needed to be.”

Perennial All-Star and future Hall of Famer Mookie Betts disagrees.

“He may surprise other people, but he’s not surprising me. I know what he’s capable of. I know what kind of person he is,” Betts told Watson of Deluca’s back-to-back sensational catches.

The only terrifying concern for Dodgers fans is that Deluca may become a trade chip for the rapidly approaching MLB trade deadline – a very real concern for a Dodgers team looking to add starting pitching.

But regardless, remember that name Dodgers (and baseball) fans – it’s Jonny Deluca, no h.

Play Ball!

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