AAAAUUURRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!

[ulysses5019]

I went to the Dodger-Angel game yesterday, only because I was guaranteed seats in the shade. Anyway, we were in the second deck behind home plate. There was a fellow a section over and at the rail. A made to order pop fly was hit towards him. There was no jostling and it was hit where only he had a chance.....it hit the pocket of his glove and popped out and fell to the field level. Boy was he embarrassed, and his family and section let him know it! Of course I thought of lb. I have never come close to catching a home run or even a foul ball. Of course, I was a Dodger fan when I was younger so there was a paucity of home runs and now I never sit in the bleachers but still have no luck with foul balls.

[Craig Paquette]

You forgot to tell them about the time you almost got one of my 99 career homeruns! Remember that fat lady in the bleachers who stuck her hand out at the last second and snagged it as it was bouncing right towards you? Bet you hated that!

I'm not sure I want Carlos Pena in any pantheon named after me. After all, he was on that Tigers team in 2003 that lost 119 games...

Oh wait, I was on that team too.... I must've forgotten....

CP21

[IHateSeat9]

One last tidbit I didn't even think of until I wrote this sad episode in my journal just a little while ago....

I was sitting in the same seat I have for about half of the games I'll attend this year.... Row 3, Seat 9.


Yes, the curse has struck me again.....

IHS9

[dodgersteve182]

Well actually I was featured one night locally on Fred Roggin's Hall of Shame. A line drive foul ball hit me on my inner theigh full force before glancing off my nuts!
I lost the ball in the lights and I knew I was dead! The guy next to me confisgated the baseball despite being urged on by the fans to give it to the newly wounded and nearly castrated.
All Roggin had to say on his HOS was "this is how not to catch a baseball"!

[littlebeast13]

Well actually I was featured one night locally on Fred Roggin's Hall of Shame.

I miss Roggin's Heroes, a knockoff of AFV back in the Bob Saget days. I used to watch it here every Saturday afternoon after bowling back in 1992-93 (And the best thing about it was all the sports stuff he did), but I think it was only in syndication that one season.

Officer Feldman ruled....

lb13

[Estonut]

Yesterday, I was at my son's game (11-12 year olds), sitting just behind the batter. A foul ball was hit straight back. I raised my left hand as high as it would go without standing up. The ball hit it and it stuck. I got a bunch of applause from the other parents in the stands. I didn't tell them that my hand hurt like hell.

As soon as it happened, I thought of LB.

That last time I tried to barehand a ball when when we used to play softball in gym class without gloves. 6 months before the Felix Jose incident, I broke the tip of my left middle finger trying to catch a popup during a PE game. I still can not fully straighten out the tip of that finger to this day (At least I can still give the bird with it).....

lb, you could learn a thing or two from this guy...

[MarleysGh0st]

Did you really remember this thread from two years ago, Esto?

[Estonut]

Did you really remember this thread from two years ago, Esto?

I remember him talking about miffing balls a few times, but had to use Search to find one that was close enough to what I was looking for.

[littlebeast13]

Did you really remember this thread from two years ago, Esto?

Its funny, because I was thinking about this thread (or at least the incident) last night when I saw a fan in Oakland make a dazzling catch on a homerun hit by the same player whose homer I whiffed on............. Carlos Pena.....

lb13

[rayxtwo]

I guess I'll pass on my story. I used to sit with a bunch of fellow Right Field bleacher bums right by the wagon gate every game. This was a time when I still played church league softball and I used to keep my bat and glove in the back seat of my car. So one game I park my car on the street and start to walk up to the ballpark, and I get about a block away and I think to myself, "Go get your glove. You're gonna catch a ball tonight." So, here I am walking up to all my friends waiting in line to buy tickets for the game, (bleachers were sold on a first come, first served basis back then) and they give me a hard time for bringing my glove, which I never had done before. I tell them that I knew that I was going to catch a ball tonight and I was going to need my glove.

Well, back in the early 80's Red Schoendienst would hit fungos to the outfielders during batting practice and they would come flying our way with 99% of them landing about 20 to 30 feet short of the wall, I'm sittilng in my normal front row seat, just running my mouth when all of a sudden I hear "CRACK", I look up and here is one of the fungos heading right dead at me. Very calmly I reach down, pick up my glove, put it on, stand up, and I make a Willie Mays basket catch on the fly ball. My friends are stunned. They can't say a word, but about 50 or 60 other fans sitting around us start cheering. Naturally I just turn around and showboat a little bit.

Granted it wasn't a real homerun ball, but I still have it in my dresser.


Ray

[littlebeast13]

I guess I'll pass on my story. I used to sit with a bunch of fellow Right Field bleacher bums right by the wagon gate every game. This was a time when I still played church league softball and I used to keep my bat and glove in the back seat of my car. So one game I park my car on the street and start to walk up to the ballpark, and I get about a block away and I think to myself, "Go get your glove. You're gonna catch a ball tonight." So, here I am walking up to all my friends waiting in line to buy tickets for the game, (bleachers were sold on a first come, first served basis back then) and they give me a hard time for bringing my glove, which I never had done before. I tell them that I knew that I was going to catch a ball tonight and I was going to need my glove.

Well, back in the early 80's Red Schoendienst would hit fungos to the outfielders during batting practice and they would come flying our way with 99% of them landing about 20 to 30 feet short of the wall, I'm sittilng in my normal front row seat, just running my mouth when all of a sudden I hear "CRACK", I look up and here is one of the fungos heading right dead at me. Very calmly I reach down, pick up my glove, put it on, stand up, and I make a Willie Mays basket catch on the fly ball. My friends are stunned. They can't say a word, but about 50 or 60 other fans sitting around us start cheering. Naturally I just turn around and showboat a little bit.

Granted it wasn't a real homerun ball, but I still have it in my dresser.


Ray

Jose Cruz, Sr. of the Astros hit a fungo too far that went right at me during BP before a game in 1997..... only I never noticed it until it hit me right in the gut....

It rolled down the aisle of the bleachers and someone else got it.......

Only time I've ever been hit by a stray ball in my many years of BP watching.....

lb13

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

So what was on last night's Nighty News but a Guy making a one handed catch of a foul ball withot dropping his beers and snacks.

[ulysses5019]

So what was on last night's Nighty News but a Guy making a one handed catch of a foul ball withot dropping his beers and snacks.

Guy Ritchie?

[Mini the Ignorant Slut]

So what was on last night's Nighty News but a Guy making a one handed catch of a foul ball withot dropping his beers and snacks.

Guy Ritchie?

On the "Nighty" News? He's single again, and rich, isn't he? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm............

[ulysses5019]

So what was on last night's Nighty News but a Guy making a one handed catch of a foul ball withot dropping his beers and snacks.

Guy Ritchie?

On the "Nighty" News? He's single again, and rich, isn't he? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm............

It depends on whether he had a better lawyer than Madonna.

[rgcviper]

OK ... here's my story. When I was seven years old, my dad, my mom, and I went to my first Major League game. I was a budding Braves fan, and they were playing the Reds at Atlanta Fulton County Stadium.

Sometime during the game, one of the players (I believe from the Reds) hit a foul ball in our direction behind first base. I could swear it was coming right at us. A crowd of people went after the ball, and my dad jumped over a few rows of seats going after it. When the dust settled, guess who was holding up the ball? Yep--my dad. He instantly brought the ball to me and put it in my hands, and it was a moment I'll remember forever. I still have the ball, too.

Great times ...

[Estonut]

So what was on last night's Nighty News but a Guy making a one handed catch of a foul ball withot dropping his beers and snacks.

I think you're referring to the clip that led me to revive this thread, suitguy...

[heelsrule1988]

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=2718254

You want to get ES to use his Paint magic and point you out? I'm trying to find you based on your description of what happened, but I'm having a tough time.

[littlebeast13]

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=2718254

You want to get ES to use his Paint magic and point you out? I'm trying to find you based on your description of what happened, but I'm having a tough time.

Thanks a lot heels..... I finally managed to find me, although only because I picked out my bald spot when I turned around to see where the ball went after it hit off my glove.....

If you pause the video at the 0:10 mark, you will see a guy in the second row straight above the "B" in Bank of America who is wearing a #5 Pujols jersey. Behind him and to the left is me.... in my maroon jacket, trying to figure out what the hell just happened.....

This is the first time I heard the actual play by play of that homerun. It's funny that Al "Beavis" Hrabosky gives Schumaker a lot of crap over not getting a good read on the ball, because I will never forget how that ball just carried, and carried, and carried..... it was like the moon's gravity had taken effect. That's also why it tricked the cameraman, and why there isn't a clear shot of the ball going off my glove......

Damn, the hurt from this had pretty much gone away, and now it's back. Thanks a lot Esto......

lb13

[littlebeast13]

If you watch the slow motion replay towards the end of that clip, you can clearly see it deflecting off my glove.....

lb13