The St. Petersburg Times' Pulitzer Prize winning PolitiFact website usually investigates claims and statements made by politicians.
But in a recent post, PolitiFact editors try to figure out if a video that's gone viral on YouTube is real or fake.
The video, if you haven't seen it, is amazing.So, what do you think...is it real or fake?
Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Evan Longoria is talking to a television reporter along the first-base line. Their backs are facing the baseball diamond, and the two are standing about 125 feet from home plate -- where a fellow Ray is taking batting practice.
The teammate sprays a line drive directly at them. Instinctively, Longoria wheels around his head and torso, extends his right arm and catches the ball barehanded.
The television reporter gasps, Longoria shakes off the pain in his hand and tosses the ball back toward the pitcher's mound. "Keep it on the field," he says, nonchalantly.
The :24-second clip was first posted on YouTube May 6, 2011 by MrSprts12 and has since been viewed more than3.84 million times.
The biggest question: Is the video real? Or is it fake?
PolitiFact Florida decided to take a break from politics to put the now viral video -- and the Rays superstar third baseman -- to the Truth-O-Meter.
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