Backflop! Baseball star kisses the floor on Live TV

Updated July 25, 2025, 7:06 a.m. | By East Coast Breakfast / Skyye Ndlovu

A baseball star’s ambitious backflip turned into a live TV faceplant

CNN backflop — Backflop! / Pop Crave / X

Ah, live TV. The land of unscripted chaos, accidental cussing and wardrobe malfunctions.

If you’re really lucky, you’ll get to see a baseball player faceplanting mid-air while trying to defy gravity.

On this particular Thursday morning, viewers of CNN News Central got more than they bargained for when baseball outfielder Robert Anthony Cruz attempted a majestic backflip.

Unfortunately, he ended up kissing the floor instead.

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Now, if you’ve never heard of the Savannah Bananas, think “baseball meets circus meets TikTok fever dream.”

They play a chaotic, high-energy version of the game called Banana Ball. It’s silly and absolutely sensational.

It’s the only place where a backflip is just as important as a batting average.

So naturally, when Cruz visited CNN’s slick and shiny studio, producers thought:

“Hey, let’s make this man backflip on a polished floor under hot lights and immense pressure. What could go wrong?”

Everything.

To be fair, Cruz is a backflip veteran. On the field, under stadium lights, surrounded by screaming fans, he usually nails that flip 10 times before the national anthem ends.

Sadly in that moment… the flip flopped.

He jumped, twisted, and somewhere mid-air, gravity just said: “Not today, bro.”

A guest on CNN attempted to backflip. pic.twitter.com/1bo6MhkaDI
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The CNN host later reassured everyone that Cruz was “doing well,” which we assume means “breathing and emotionally recovering in a quiet room somewhere.”

Although the internet will never forget.

That clip is now looped on Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, and probably your granny’s Facebook timeline.

On the bright side though… it happened on CNN, so the chances of too many people seeing it were low.