A problem I have with that is yeah… not only does every fould ball not reach the seats, but the guys sitting in section 501 row R, are never no matter who is batting going to get a ball, there needs to be a chart breaking down the range of foul balls and home runs and where they land and then break down the number of people that sit in those areas and divide that number by the total attendance. its probably more like 1 in 3000

I was’nt paying attention to the game at that moment, and by the time I realized what happened, some little kid got under there and snatched the ball. I guess I was lucky the ball went just under the seat and not in my crotch.

alas, despite attending over 200 professional games, no dice.

Thanks for exploring the blogosphere for us! This addition to HH has been really great!!

Here are Jepsen’s numbers for the last 10 games
ip hits runs walks strikeouts
13.0 20 15 12 12

10.38 era

francisco rodriguez
jeremy hill

If they had called up either of these guys it MIGHT make difference, but wtf is Arredondo being dicked with for someone putting up numbers like Jepsen? Rodriguez and Hill have at least shown they can throw strikes and not allow 2+ runners an inning, wtf has Jepsen figured out? How to implode against inferior hitters?

Glad the offense doesn’t need any shaking up, let’s keep squeaking out 1 run games.
Score a few, and ride the lights out pen to 100 win glory.

ive been going to games since i can remember and have yet to catch a ball or be on the jumbo-tron!

…on my 51st birthday!!

The ball was hit to the guy directly behind me. It bounced off his hands and dropped ever so gently into mine. His GF was so disappointed…I gave the ball to her. Made her day. Don’t know what I’d do with it anyway.

I also caught a puck at a Ducks game about 9-10 years ago. My son (about 14 at the time) was so happy! Made his day too. I think he still has it.

beautiful, strong, short swing. I know it’s only a HR derby, but I want to see if he can take a pitch to the other side, and whether his power translates in that direction, too…

I didn’t literally catch them, but I was lucky enough to have them find me. Too bad this luck is apparent in anything else such as the lotto.

I chalk it up to the same magic that inspires freeway traffic reports. No matter where I am sitting on the SoCal freeway system when the radio blurts out a traffic report, they explain every freeway problem except the one I am stuck within.

Over the years I have sat in nearly every part of the park (including the owners box). No matter where I sit all foul balls go everywhere except to the area where I am sitting. The closets anything has ever come into the stands is perhaps 5 rows.

Then again, growing up I always had a sports bucket loaded with baseballs, so another one meant too little to me to go scrambling after it. As a grown up, I have always looked around for the youngest kid nearby (not calling himself my own son and not wearing the cap of the opposition) and committed to handing that child the ball if I ever got one. So that remains a good deed going forever unrealized.