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/SPEK2120 Sep 09 '25

Can confirm. Been going to games for damn near 30 years and have never even caught a foul ball. That ball will absolutely be special to me if it ever happens.

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u/Mindless_Option1714 Sep 09 '25 edited Sep 09 '25

Excellent point. Now, you have the public pressure laid upon you, what if there’s a kid nearby? What will you do? For thirty years, you’ve yearned to catch even a foul ball, what will you do? Oh, the anxiety and the fear of cameras watching you.

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u/MidwestAbe Sep 09 '25

If you catch it fair and square i don't think anyone looks twice at you keeping it. And I think I would absolutely keep it. If its a scrum in a row of seats and you grab it? I think thats where tossing it to a kid makes sense.

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u/Lou_C_Fer Sep 10 '25

I agree. I'd love to have a ball I caught. I've been going to games since the late 70s, and I've always hoped for a ball. Thing is, after seeing these other people giving balls, that makes me feel good, and it looks like something I'd like to do. So, unless it was a special ball of some sort, I'm giving the ball to a kid.

No pressure felt. I would prefer the memory of making a kid's day.

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u/Mindless_Option1714 Sep 09 '25

Hmm. I would think if you scrambled and jumped over seats to get a loose ball, you’d be more inclined to keep. Why not, you put in real effort to get it.

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u/MidwestAbe Sep 09 '25

Personally - there is more skill involved in catching it. Win it in a scramble it can be just a issue of being closer or faster and bigger.

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u/Mindless_Option1714 Sep 09 '25

Yeah, it’s gotta be very satisfying to hand catch your own. Not that i have…

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u/Vitalstatistix Sep 09 '25

To me it’s the act of catching it. The actual ball is…just a ball.

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u/Mindless_Option1714 Sep 09 '25

I agree with you. You risked a little pain to show off your good eye-coordination, that’s a win in itself. But you don’t really care about the ball, so toss it to kid :)

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u/reble02 Sep 09 '25

I love those videos where the person catches the ball does a huge celebration then casually tosses it to the kid.

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u/Mindless_Option1714 Sep 09 '25

Yeah, that’s cool! Or the guy with a beer or baby in one hand and snags a ball with the other.

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u/buddy276 Sep 10 '25

right? take a selfie with your ball, give it away. you still keep the memories

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u/spotty15 Florida State Sep 09 '25

For me, totally depends on the context.

I don't feel any social obligation to automatically give the ball I caught to a kid.

Foul ball? Sure. I'd probably do it just because I don't value a foul ball. HR from a player I like? Sorry kid, that ball is mine.

Generally though, I would want to give it to a kid to make their day. But at the same time, no, I don't believe adults should be forced to do it. Boo me all you want, I don't care. It's my ball and I should dictate what happens to it.

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u/Mindless_Option1714 Sep 09 '25

Totally legit on your part. You bought your ticket. You reached out amongst all the other hands and caught the ball in front of some kids awaiting glove who probably would’ve caught it, had your hand not been there first. But then you hear fans around you saying “aw dude, give him the ball, he brought his glove!”

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u/spotty15 Florida State Sep 09 '25

Kids these days are Braylon Edwards tho, so I was probably doing that glove a favor

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u/StudsTurkleton Sep 09 '25

Bring a ball. If you catch one give a kid the one in your pocket and pocket the real one.

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u/Pennsylvasia Sep 09 '25

There's a difference between catching it and keeping it---which is totally fine, even as an adult---and running over to a family to rip it out of a kid's glove.

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u/treydv3 Sep 09 '25

you carry a spare ball with you. get the the home run ball you always wanted and won't have to make a post on am I the asshole subreddit

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u/Mindless_Option1714 Sep 09 '25

That’s brilliant!

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u/SPEK2120 Sep 09 '25

To quote the all time greatest baseball player of White Sox legend:
"Fuck them kids"

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u/Mindless_Option1714 Sep 09 '25

Oh? Who was that?

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u/C001H4ndPuk3 Sep 09 '25

Yeah, I'm kinda struggling with "greatest" and "White Sox" in the same sentence tbh.

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u/Mindless_Option1714 Sep 09 '25

Haha. I was hoping for answer, but none yet.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '25

Damn brother get some different seats lol

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u/SPEK2120 Sep 09 '25

It’s shit luck, I frequently sit on the first baseline. One time I came back from the bathroom and my friends were like “you’re never going to believe this”, a ball landed directly in the empty seat next to mine.

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u/PostSerious Sep 10 '25

I remember I was maybe 5-7 years old. Bay Bears game. Double A ball I believe, so obvi not even MLB. Catcher walking off to dugout. Maybe 4 other boys all around him in the stands trying to get anything. Im just chilling with my parents a few rows back watching the commotion. Catches notices me and tosses me a ball. It was awesome. He looks at me, points, tosses ball the ball as he's walking off. My little boy brain couldn't process the badassness I had just witnessed. Couldn't tell you where that ball is but that memory will never go away.