Awesome shot. Wigginton is just dying to be Photoshopped.

I picture evil lightning coming from his hands.

Jazz Hands! 

Yes! I shall distract him with Jazz Hands!

Noted hockey fan Aaron Hill has his playoff beard in full-bloom, I see.

The POTD strikes again. Aaron Hill goes 3-3 with a BB.

..forgot to mention the home run. What will Shea do next?

Question for ya Aaron. Does your Pentax have focus lock? Or are you auto focusing on the fly, so to speak when you get shots like this one?

Sorry for the late reply -- somehow I missed this question in the thread.  Apologies to Kevin.

The camera does have an AF lock, though I wasn't using it for reasons I'll explain in a sec.  I leave the camera on continuous AF, so it doesn't lock itself.  There's a small button under your right thumb when holding the camera that's user-programmable, and I've set this to 'disable AF', so it locks focus when pressed.

The 400mm f2.8 I'm using, however, is a manual focus lens.  But still, I was not focusing on the fly.  The lens was designed with baseball in mind, and has a preset focus feature which I used to get this shot.  Let's say you're anticipating the double play, starting at second base, and you want a photograph of the second baseman turning it.  With this lens, you focus on second and turn a tiny screw beside the focusing ring, which locks in that focus distance.  You can re-focus wherever you'd like now (I refocused on home, trying to get something good of the batter), and if or when the play develops at second, when you turn the focus ring to rack your focus back towards second base it snaps into your pre-set focus position.

Hope that all makes sense -- I'm tired while writing this, so please ask me if you need clarification.

I tried hard to get a photograph of the release of the ball from Hill's hand, and I have it -- but it's obscured by Wigginton's back because he wasn't far enough into the slide.