Hit sitcom 'Abbott Elementary'...

You've probably heard of the "Simpsons predictions" craze, but Emmy Award-winning sitcom "Abbott Elementary" just shown its own fortune-telling powers.

Adley Rutschman, a budding star with the Baltimore Orioles, smashed a walk-off home run against the Oakland Athletics on Thursday. With the game at 7-7 at Camden Yards, A's reliever Trevor May threw a 93.2 mph fastball toward the center of the zone, which Rutschman quickly punished with a 405-foot dinger to end it.

Rutschman hitting a walk-off home run was not a surprising tale, as he has previously shown to be an excellent baseball player. However, in his postgame interview on Thursday, Rutschman stated that this was not only his first MLB walk-off home run, but also the first walk-off home run of his whole baseball career, from Little League to high school to college to the minor levels.

Some people were surprised since Rutschman has been a standout at almost every level – he was excellent enough in high school to be drafted, then good enough at Oregon State to be taken first overall.

People who had watched the previous night's episode of "Abbott Elementary" on ABC were even more surprised by the walk-off homer.

According to The Athletic, one of the key characters in that episode, Gregory Eddie, a Baltimore native, found himself standing behind another Orioles fan who hadn't been able to check the previous night's score. He took it upon himself to provide a summary:

“5-3 O's. Adley Rutschman hit a walk-off opposite-field home run, while Cedric Mullins was a single shy of the cycle."

Was that a flawless prediction? Certainly not. The Orioles won 8-7, Rutschman's shot was pulled rather than opposite-field, and Mullins was 1-for-4 with a single instead of a single shy of the cycle.

Still, when a program predicts a person hitting a walk-off home run, and then he hits his first walk-off home run less than 24 hours later, it's a bit unsettling (and let's not pretend that some previous Simpsons forecasts haven't been equally incorrect).

Rustchman is hitting.373/.467/.627 as of Thursday, with four home runs and nine RBIs. He was anticipated to make a significant leap this year as a former No. 1 overall prospect and runner-up for American League Rookie of the Year last year. So far, he appears to be meeting expectations from fans and hit shows.