Whit Merrifield’s first home run with the Blue Jays was an unusual double doink

Second baseman Whit Merrifield’s first home run for the Toronto Blue Jays had a football feel to it.

Merrifield, who was traded earlier this month by the Royals to the Blue Jays shortly before the Major League Baseball trade deadline, hit a double-doink dinger Sunday at Yankee Stadium.

That may seem, well, impossible because a double doink in football comes on a field goal attempt that hits an upright, then hits the crossbar or other upright on the way back to the ground. Unsure what that looks like? Well, ask any Chicago Bears fan you may know to explain.

But unlike Cody Parkey’s miss three years ago in an NFC Wild Card game for the Bears, Merrifield’s double doink went over.

But this was just a weird as Parkey’s infamous kick.

In the third inning of Sunday’s game, Merrifield crushed a pitch from New York’s Nestor Cortes and the ball landed on top of the right-center field wall at Yankees Stadium. The ball bounced up, landed on top of the wall again and went over and into the Yankees bullpen.

Have you ever seen this before?