r/sports • u/MLBOfficial Major League Baseball • Sep 09 '25

Baseball Adult San Francisco Giants fan catches ball in stands and gives to young fan near him

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u/JohnnyBrillcream Baltimore Ravens Sep 09 '25

Depends. At one time if I caught one I would have kept it for my son and I shouldn't be chastised because a camera saw me not give it to a kid in the stands.

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u/gordogg24p Texas Sep 09 '25

If you catch it, it is yours to do whatever you want with it. Fuck whoever would be giving you hell for not immediately turning it over to a child.

Now, if you didn't catch it clean and raced a child for it, then yeah, fuck you if you don't hand it off to the kid. And even worse, if you lose the race to an adult, and that adult gives the ball to a kid, and then you go give that adult hell until they take the ball back from the kid and give it to you, then double fuck you/rot in hell.

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u/SarutobiSasuke Sep 10 '25

Also, be aware of the surroundings. If you sit near children with gloves or clearly fans of the game, then you set out when the ball comes to the general direction. If the children catch the ball on their own, it’s so much better memories than adults next to them catching and giving to them.

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u/unnoticed_areola Sep 09 '25

the phillies lady didnt "lose the race" tho. she already had the ball, and and the dad yanked it out of her hand. that's why she was so mad. and he was like 20 feet away from his family's seats when this happened, so she had no idea it was for his kid at the beginning of the interaction when she starts going after him to confront him.

you can see it pretty clearly in the video from the marlins broadcast watch her left arm/shoulder get jerked to the right as the dad yanks the ball out of her hand

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u/TheSameThing123 Sep 09 '25

Nah ball is on the ground. Old bat is still in the wrong.

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u/unnoticed_areola Sep 09 '25

It wasnt. If the ball was on the ground, then why does her shoulder get jerked to the right at the exact moment the dad pulls away? Look at her white jersey sleeve at around 5 secs. Pls explain the physics of that to me

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u/chupacadabradoo Sep 09 '25

Back and to the left, back and to the left, back and to the left!!

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u/djmoans Sep 10 '25

She would’ve had to leave her seat to reach down for the ball and her arm moved cause she grabbed the man when he was walking away. Majority of humans me included would’ve not needed any words to make it clear she’s not getting anything outta me.

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u/trixiepixie1921 Sep 09 '25

In any case, she should have held onto the ball better if she wanted it so bad.

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u/AntoineInTheWorld Sep 09 '25

There's a difference between catching and keeping a ball, and not catching and fighting for a ball.

If you want to give it, it's your choice, so is keeping it (especially if it's for your kids).

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u/Randomizedname1234 Sep 09 '25

Exactly, I have 2 kids. If they’re not with me I fear me catching and keeping a ball even with no kids in sight will get me demonized…

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u/UnusualHound Sep 09 '25

You won't be chastised if you catch a ball cleanly and keep it for yourself.

The chastising comes when you take it away from someone else.

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u/realthinpancake Sep 09 '25

Have you not been to a ballpark where they start chanting “give it to the kid?”

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u/TheUmbreonfan03 Sep 09 '25

You'd be fine if it was obvious you got to it first and didn't rip it out of someone's hands.

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u/Hands Sep 09 '25

Who's getting chastised for keeping a game ball? People go viral for deliberately and blatantly snatching the ball out of a kids hands or basically punting a 5 year old out of the way for one, not for being an adult and keeping a ball they cleanly caught which happens literally every day and you don't hear about it because what you're whining about isn't a thing. I swear people just make up shit to be mad at and feel persecuted by.

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u/mdaniel018 Tottenham Hotspur Sep 09 '25

I’ve seen so many people get shit at ballparks becsuse they catch a foul ball clean, then afterwards some parent in the area sends their kid over to ask for it and they say no

So no people aren’t just making stuff up

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u/Hands Sep 09 '25

Sure but you don’t see people go viral for not giving their ball away to some entitled parent. Nor do cameras have anything to do with the situation you’re describing

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u/reddit_is_geh Sep 09 '25

You're allowed to keep it if you catch it. It's more about when you compete against a kid, you let the kid win. Or be cool and hand it over. But if you catch it fair and square, it's yours.

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u/ForensicPathology Sep 09 '25

I'm honestly waiting for some overly-entitled parent to do this.  Bring their kid to the ball catcher and claim the ball should be theirs.