I'm a huge baseball fan that has spent way too much of my life playing or watching the game. Something I saw Tuesday night may have been the coolest/sickest/kickassest thing in a game(that didn't happen for my Cubs).In the eighth inning of game four of the NLDS, Colorado Rockies rookie Dexter Fowler acrobatically jumped over Phillies All-Star second baseman Chase Utley, in a way that looked
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