ESPN announcers, John Sterling thought Giancarlo Stanton hit home run in first inning of AL wild-card game

The Green Monster fooled everyone during Tuesday's AL wild-card game between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees.

In the first inning at Fenway Park, Giancarlo Stanton stepped up to the plate and hit what might have been a home run at every other stadium in the majors.

But as we know, not every stadium is Fenway - the ball hit near the top of the Green Monster and fell into play, and because Stanton admired it a bit, it was maybe the hardest hit single you'll see.

Everyone - from Stanton to ESPN's broadcast to longtime Yankees radio play-by-play man John Sterling - thought it was gone:

Oops. It happens! Heck, it looked gone off the bat!