Ernie Clement celebrates scoring a fifth inning run with teammates while playing the Detroit Tigers.Getty Images

A strange play from Wednesday’s Tolendo Mudhens-Columbus Clippers game is going viral.

Clippers third baseman Ernie Clement took a hard cut at a pitch from Toledo’s Joey Wentz in the second inning and hit the ball nearly straight down. It lodged itself in the dirt about a foot in front of the plate, ruled a fair ball.

Toledo catcher Dustin Garneau from there made the not-so-routine but nonetheless simple play of taking a couple of steps, picking up the ball, and tagging Clement for the out.

One of the rarest things you will ever see in baseball... Yes folks, that was a fair ball. 😂#LetsGoHens | #DetroitRoots pic.twitter.com/8wAyKmNPeb

By Thursday afternoon, the play, which had been tweeted out by the Mudhens, had been seen more than two million times and retweeted hundreds of times.

Clement went 0-for-3 in the game, grounding out to Zack Short in the fourth and striking out in the seventh.

The Mudhens won 4-0 to improve to 60-52.

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