VIDEO: Mookie Betts dazzles with glove, legs, bat in Fenway opener

By the time Tuesday rolls around, Mookie Betts will be the mayor of Boston.

Betts, the diminutive 22-year-old with all of 57 major-league games on his resume, became the most popular member of the Boston Red Sox within moments of first pitch in Monday's home opener at Fenway Park. 

In the top of the first inning, Betts robbed Bryce Harper of a two-run home run with an absolutely electrifying catch in center field - a position he was introduced to less than one year ago.

"Seeing what he did today - that bat speed he has, the running ability he has, being able to play centerfield like he does, he'd be in the lineup every day for me if I was writing a lineup," Harper said after the game. "He's an unbelievable player. He's a lot of fun to watch. I wish he hadn't robbed that homer, but like I said, great players make great plays."

Betts continued his magic show in the bottom half of the first, relying on both dazzling speed and impressive baseball intelligence to steal two bases against the hapless Washington Nationals in one play.

"That was fun. That was the craziest thing I've ever seen in baseball," slugger David Ortiz told Rob Hannable of WEEI. "We were talking about it and I was explaining to him what he did because I don't think he knows. I mean, I know because when I was telling him what he did he was like, 'Really?' 

"I was like, 'Bro, not even in a few practices you can do that.' I asked him what he was thinking and he was like, 'I know they play with a shift so I kind of got up right away and I knew they weren't catching to catch me.'"

Oh yeah, and then Betts clobbered a three-run shot over the Green Monster in the second inning to give the Red Sox a 4-0 lead.

(Courtesy: MLB.com)

Before the start of the third inning, incidentally, Betts also cured all known diseases, eradicated world hunger and learned how to play the guitar solo from Pearl Jam's "Daughter."