Two different Mariners fans try to catch homers with their caps, fail
Not too long ago, I was at an MLB game with my wife and a few friends, debating the value of a cap as a catching device. A fan near us had tried to catch a foul ball in his cap and that didn’t end well.
Catching a ball with a cap, I told the group definitively, is awkward and the cap itself offers little support. Not like a glove. Heck, even your bare hand is better. My friends believed me, I’m assuming, because I write about baseball on the Internet, a gig in which you’re basically required to watch fans botch foul-ball catches. Or maybe it was just because they’re my friends and were humoring me.
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After Monday night’s Baltimore Orioles and Seattle Mariners game, at least two more fans have to agree with me. Watch above as the two different dudes try to catch homers in Seattle’s right-center-field bleachers. Both used their hats. Both lost their hats.
The first fan tried to catch Adam Jones’ first-inning homer and the second fan, just a few seats over, made an attempt on a Chris Davis homer in the sixth inning. Nope and nope. It wasn’t all bad news, as Safeco Field ushers were nice enough to return the gentlemen’s caps.
They learned that a home-run ball, even more than a looping foul ball, is tough to catch with a cap. The force wil rip those suckers right out of your hands. Some way-too-judgy baseball fans will tell you that grown folks should never bring gloves to games. Why not? They’d rather people try something unnatural, like catching with a cap?
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Bring a glove. It’s OK. If you use it right, you may end up like this young lady, who snagged a foul ball during Monday night’s Rockies-Mets game and danced around in elation afterward. That’s much better than waiting for an usher to bring back your fallen cap.
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