White Sox Baseball is Back with Oscar Colas Taking a Fly Ball Off His Head!

Oh, you thought those embarrassing plays from the 2024 season were in the past for the White Sox? Settle in Sox fans. In the team’s 2025 spring training opener against the Cubs on Saturday, former top-100 prospect Oscar Colas did his best Jose Canseco impression as the outfielder nearly helped Michael Busch hit a two-run homer by taking a fly ball off his head.

Busch drove a ball to the warning track in the bottom of the fourth inning and Colas had trouble tracking the ball. It didn’t seem like Colas needed to make a leap at the wall, but he did and in doing so ended up with an embarrassing play. The fly ball ended up hitting Colas on the side of his head and luckily for him the ball didn’t go over the fence, instead it rolled away from him on the warning track.

Still, chalk this one up as the first lowlight for the 2025 White Sox.

Oscar Colas takes a fly ball off the side of his head. Ouch pic.twitter.com/tuXaYTSW9K

— Aldo Soto (@AldoSoto21) February 22, 2025

A few weeks ago there was a report that the White Sox were considering moving Colas to first base this year. Colas has made 73 career starts in the big leagues and they’ve all come in the outfield. The 26-year-old briefly played first base last spring training with the White Sox, but nothing came of it as Colas ended up playing most of the 2024 season at Triple-A as an outfielder with only two starts at first.

Colas made his MLB debut with the White Sox in 2023, but he struggled as a rookie, posting a 571 OPS in 75 games. The left-handed hitter played in 13 games in the majors last season and slashed .273/.368/.273, in 33 at-bats.