From Jo Show to oh no: Angels outfielder revives Jos Canseco meme by giving up homer off his head

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Nothing could possibly generate a headline Tuesday night when the worst American League team — the Angels — played host to the perhaps the worst National League team — the Colorado Rockies.Except..

.This.A fly ball conked Angels right fielder Jo Adell on the head and bounced over the fence for a home run, reminding fans of José Canseco’s similar gaffe 33 years ago.Adell chased TJ Rumfield’s fourth-inning drive onto the Angel Stadium warning track and reached up to catch it.

The ball grazed his glove before bouncing squarely on his noggin and over the wall.The ball caromed back into the outfield and Rumfield momentarily stopped at second base.

But the umpires confirmed the home run, coupling Adell with Conseco in numerous social media posts.Off his glove, off his head, and out!One of the strangest home runs you've ever seen pic.twitter.com/KaPpp1r9CxConseco, the steroids-fueled, defensively challenged left fielder of the Texas Rangers, made a similar blunder on May 26, 1993, when a ball hit by Cleveland’s Carlos Martínez bounced off his head and over the wall.Mike Trout presumably has witnessed every possible blooper, blunder and boo-boo in 16 seasons with the woeful Angels.The center fielder stood only a few feet from Adell when this one occurred and did not make himself available for comment afterward.To his credit, Adell faced reporters.“It looks like I’ve never played in the field before, which is disappointing, because it’s beyond the truth,” he said.

“I’m the only one that really knows what happened.I was out there, and it happened to me, so it is what it is.“It was kind of the icing on the cake, because I was [expletive] all the way around the whole day today.”Bill Plaschke writes that in the 23 years since Arte Moreno bought the World Series championship team, the Angels have become a punch line.Adell was hitless in four at-bats, striking ...