It looked like a home run. Sounded like a home run.Heliot Ramos thought it was gone. So did the Giants’ broadcasters. Somehow, it landed in Cedric Mullins’ glove, leaving Ramos slack jawed and leading to two ejections from the visitors’ dugout.

Even home runs off the bat aren’t getting over the wall these days for the Giants, who haven’t hit one since they left San Francisco six days ago.

Ramos appeared to connect on their first dinger oftheir road tripin the second inning Saturday against Rays opener Griffin Jax. He squared up a 3-2 fastball to straightaway center field, sending Mullins back to the warning track.

The center fielder either deked everyone in the building or something else led to him making a late adjustment on his read of the fly ball, which left Ramos’ bat at 107.9 mph on a 33-degree trajectory.

Eight other fly balls with near-identical matches to Ramos’ have been hit inside Tropicana Field since Statcast began tracking batted-ball data in 2015. Every one was a home run.

I decided to see if there were any balls hit with an identical profile to Heliot Ramos' fly out (??).Eight other balls have been hit between 107-108 mph with a launch angle between 33-34 degrees at Tropicana Field in the Statcast era (since 2015).All eight were HRs.pic.twitter.com/xdRVcZnnEj

Not this swing. Mullins retreated, touched the wall and suddenly came in to make the catch.

Ramos, who had made it to second base, looked stunned. He appeared to remark, “There’s no way,” on his way back to the dugout. On the Giants’ television broadcast, play-by-play man Dave Flemming had broken into a home-run call and was left equally confused.

*Takes deep breath*Heliot Ramos hits a long flyout, which he thought hit a catwalk at Tropicana Field and therefore should have been a home run, but after review, the call on the field stood, which led to pitcher Adrian Houser and assistant coach Frank Anderson being ejected.pic.twitter.com/9r3xGFZZ2o

The catwalks can come into play on high fly balls at Tropicana Field. According to the ground rules, if a ball in fair play comes into contact with one of the two lower rings, it is automatically ruled a home run. If it hits the two higher catwalks, it is considered a live ball.

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