Astros outfielder Jake Marisnick makes absurd catch on ridiculous hill

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For some silly reason, the Astros' home field in Minute Maid Park features a 30-degree upward slope in deep center field with a flagpole near the middle of it.

It's called "Tal's Hill" for former team president Tal Smith and serves as some vague and nostalgic tribute to a ballpark in Cincinnati that closed in 1970, but there's really no good excuse to put a decorative hill in the middle of your ballpark. No outfielder has been seriously injured on the gimmick since the Astros started playing there in 2000, but adding pinball features to a baseball park seems to add far more unnecessary risk than it does cool-looking plays.

But there are occasionally some extremely cool-looking plays, like the one outfielder Jake Marisnick made to rob Mariners first baseman Logan Morrison of extra bases over the weekend. Marisnick is off to an outrageous start for the first-place Astros, hitting .382 with a 1.059 OPS, so he should definitely watch out for that random flagpole in center field.