Throughout the entire ordeal—through foul ball after foul ball, the crowd's anticipation rising after each pitch—Cora's expression remained the same.
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After a video review, umpires called it a foul ball.
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Child gets hit by a foul ball at Yankees game.
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But home plate umpire Carlos Torres ruled it a foul ball.
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David Waldstein: Ross and Rizzo are quite a foul-ball tandem.
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Nelson Cruz lined a long foul ball down the right-field line.
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Beer goes flying, nachos to the face trying to catch foul ball!
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"I thought maybe another foul ball caught (catcher Stephen Vogt)," Doolittle noted.
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It isn't fair, but sometimes a dropped foul ball is always foul.
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Instead of an out, Castillo's pop-up was merely a foul ball.
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With virtually no shot of ever even getting leather on this foul ball, Cespedes threw caution to the wind and just leapt into the stands to try to get this foul ball off the bat of Ichiro Suzuki.
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Foul ball in the beer cup...and you know the rest #EverybodyIn pic.twitter.
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A not-so-foul ball There wasn't much to celebrate on the field.
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If we had gotten a foul ball, it would have made our year.
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Me, personally, I'd like to have the opportunity to get a foul ball.
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So New Jersey Governor Chris Christie just caught Paul DeJong's foul ball… #STLCards pic.twitter.
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"When you're up and around the corners, those are foul-ball pitches," he said.
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As a foul ball came screaming toward me, I remembered a few key ones.
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How would he have finished McCann if he had, indeed, gotten that foul ball?
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Headley's near-miss foul ball was emblematic of the last month for the Yankees.
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Somewhere around the middle of the game, a foul ball plopped into the net.
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Diaz hit himself with a foul ball in the ninth inning on Monday night.
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"He swelled up pretty good after a foul ball of the left foot," Farrell said.
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Here's the foul ball that knocks Christian Yelich out for the rest of the season.
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You'd think they'd at least be excited about the chance of catching a foul ball.
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Gabby DiMarco caught the foul ball in her beer cup and then chugged the drink.
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That week, our English teacher assigned us personal narratives: I documented the foul-ball adventure.
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And a blast out of the park isn't a home run — it's a foul ball.
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Rico Carty hit a long foul ball to left field, then he heard a noise.
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After a foul ball on the fifth pitch, Devers flied out harmlessly to center field.
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He's been out since April 13 when he banged a foul ball off his toe. MLB.
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Recall it was an A's fan who recently made this legendary catch of a foul ball.
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In the fifth inning, a foul ball came off the bat and hit him the face.
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In September a child was injured by a foul ball at Yankee stadium in New York.
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Some prefer to sit in the upper deck to avoid being hit by a foul ball.
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In 1970, a 14-year-old boy was killed by a foul ball at Dodgers Stadium.
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Fan hit in the face by foul ball at Fenway Park sues the Red Sox claiming negligence.
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Sanchez sustained a contusion on his foot May 5 when he was hit by a foul ball.
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Idiot Mets fan catches foul ball at Dodger Stadium, nearly drops baby, wife ready to kill him.
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The Phillies lost Realmuto after he took a foul ball to the groin in the fifth inning.
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"Yeah, that foul ball...they must have better cameras up there," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said.
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But if a player hit a pop-up or a foul ball, his total reverts to zero.
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People don't come to see the umpire call a ball or a strike or a foul ball.
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In August 2018, a woman was fatally struck by a foul ball at Dodger Stadium in California.
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Jana Brody's mother died four days after she was struck on the head by a foul ball.
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The Phillies lost Realmuto in the fifth inning when he took a foul ball to the groin.
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A foul ball off the bat of Harold Castro deflected off his glove and then his mask.
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New York Mets game inside New York City's Citi Field for catching Cardinals infielder Paul DeJong's foul ball.
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Just two weeks ago, Christie caught a foul ball at Citi Field during a New York Mets vs.
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According to USA Today, the Cubs' Anthony Rizzo hit a foul ball into the stands behind home plate.
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He was struck with a foul ball off the bat of Chase Utley of the Dodgers on Sunday.
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Last season, 79-year-old Linda Goldbloom was struck by a foul ball at Dodger Stadium on Aug.
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Santana also wrestled a fan for a foul ball down the right-field line in the fifth inning.
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And he obliged, defending that strike zone like Thermopylae, sending one foul ball after another down the baselines.
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In June, Gabrielle DiMarco caught a foul ball in her beer and proceeded to drink the entire cup.
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In the top of the seventh inning, a fan was knocked out cold by a scorching foul ball.
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But for Andy Zlotnick, a Manhattan man grievously injured by a foul ball at Yankee Stadium on Aug.
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The hit was originally ruled a foul ball, but the call was overturned when the Red Sox challenged.
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Martinez elected to leave Sanchez in the game to bat, and he struck out on a bunted foul ball.
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Then a lifelong Cubs fan named Steve Bartman, seated down the left field line, reached for a foul ball.
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The umpires initially signaled it was a home run, but the call was quickly changed to a foul ball.
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But on the stands it was a different story when a woman caught a foul ball in her beer.
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If any of them had it hitting the bat I would have turned around and called a foul ball.
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When he made an impressive one-handed catch of a foul ball at a Mets game, he was booed.
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During the game here, an infantry re-enactor hit a foul ball that flew into the nearby Fox River.
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Baltimore Orioles spring training game ... O's third baseman Renato Nunez uncorked a foul ball that beelined straight at Whitley.
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He was hit by a foul ball in the first inning Monday and did not return for the second.
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Chris Christie (R) was booed at a New York Mets game on Tuesday after he caught a foul ball.
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Suzuki took a hard foul ball off his mask in the second inning Saturday against Seattle and left the game.
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In the bottom of the seventh, Wilson was struck on the left leg near the knee by a foul ball.
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In a video from Petco Park – the Padres' home stadium – we see a foul ball land right in her cup.
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Astros catcher Jason Castro made no attempt to retrieve the ball, assuming it was a foul ball off Chisenhall's bat.
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He suffered the injury in a collision with left fielder Alex Gordon while chasing a foul ball on May 22.
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C Salvador Perez was struck by a Lonnie Chisenhall foul ball in the eighth and was replaced in the ninth.
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In the second inning, Jeter dived deep into the stands to catch a foul ball and end a Gothams rally.
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The rules prescribed that everyone in the bullpen had to freeze when a foul ball was hit in that direction.
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That, however, wasn't nearly as terrifying as the time a foul ball off his bat came inches from hitting a baby.
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Martinez fractured his right elbow when he ran into a wall chasing a foul ball in Kansas City on June 16th.
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San Diego C Derek Norris (arm) sat out Friday after being struck by a foul ball Thursday — X-rays were negative.
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The announcement comes one day after a young girl was struck in the face by a foul ball at Yankee Stadium.
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Gabby DiMarco catches a foul ball right in her cup, and look what she does with it after she catches it.
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He cannot duck away from a foul ball quickly enough, so he watched the game from the bullpen in right field.
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David Waldstein: Michael Brantley hit a hard foul ball into the Astros dugout and it hit someone, apparently a security guard.
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Even so, Linda Goldbloom, 79, died in August after being struck in the head by a foul ball at Dodger Stadium.
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Baltimore lost starting catcher Pedro Severino in that inning after he took a foul ball from DeShields off the face mask.
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A Dodgers fan was hospitalized after being struck in the head by a foul ball during Sunday's game against the Colorado Rockies.
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He jammed the ankle Sunday at Milwaukee when his foot went beneath the padding at the barrier while catching a foul ball.
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The umpire John Hirschbeck left the game in the eighth inning after he appeared to take a foul ball off his neck.
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Without a doubt, these were the most dangerous seats in the stadium, the area where a foul ball could really hurt someone.
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Since Sanchez caught the pitch anyway, Chisenhall would have been out on strikes, if the play had been ruled a foul ball.
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Severino walked Michael Brantley on eight pitches, and needed 11 to strike out Alex Bregman in a foul ball-filled at-bat.
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This is softball, country-music style: Cassadee Pope swinging at six pitches before hitting a foul ball and running safely to first base.
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Cubs' outfielder Albert Almora Jr. was up to bat when he hit the foul ball that struck the young girl in the stands.
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In September, a toddler was hit in the face by a foul ball at Yankee Stadium in a game versus the Minnesota Twins.
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A young boy was hospitalized after he was struck by a foul ball during a minor league baseball game in Indianapolis on Saturday.
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Carlos Torres nearly gave up the lead, but Headley's drive down the right field line was ruled a foul ball after Milwaukee challenged.
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Cincinnati's Phillip Ervin reached into the crowd down the left field line to catch a Mike Moustakas foul ball for the first out.
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Getting struck by a foul ball is a foreseeable injury to a baseball fan sitting in that area, with a relatively inexpensive solution.
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Boston outfielder Andrew Benintendi returned to the lineup after missing three games with a foot contusion sustained on a foul ball last Sunday.
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What happened: In the eighth inning of Game 6 of the NLCS, the Marlins' Luis Castillo hit a foul ball toward left field.
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As we reported ... Christie got destroyed by Mets fans earlier this month when he caught a foul ball and was showered in BOOOs.
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He injured the ankle Sunday at Milwaukee when he went after a foul ball and his foot hit the barrier at the stands.
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After that comment, a fan at Yankee Stadium was hit in the head by a foul ball off the bat of Aaron Judge.
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WASHINGTON — When Christian Yelich broke his kneecap on a foul ball last month, the Milwaukee Brewers turned to a rookie to replace him.
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N.L. MOST VALUABLE PLAYER This race was a lot more fun before Christian Yelich broke his kneecap with a foul ball on Sept.
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Chris Christie caught a foul ball with one hand from his seat at Citi Field during the Mets-Cardinals game on Tuesday night.
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No telecast had followed the flight of the fatal foul ball, which was hit by a Padres batter during a tense ninth inning.
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Haniger was injured in the third inning of Thursday's game against the Houston Astros when he was struck by his own foul ball.
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Chris Christie caught a foul ball at Citi Field, then got heavily booed and dunked on by a dopey play-by-play guy pic.twitter.
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Of course, Bartman is the guy who was blamed for blowing the Cubs playoff run in 2003 when he interfered with a foul ball.
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A Philadelphia Phillies fan made an AMAZING 1-handed grab at Citizens Bank Park on Wednesday ... snagging a foul ball while HOLDING HIS BABY!!
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In early April, we had the A's fan who caught a foul ball with one hand while coolly nursing his beer in the other.
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DiMarco was sitting down when she thought the foul ball hit the chair behind her and bounced into her cup, according to the Tribune.
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After successfully catching the foul ball hit by first baseman Anthony Rizzo, the man removed his hat, saluted the stadium, and chugged the beer.
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He survived a scare in the second inning, when he tumbled over a padded railing chasing a foul ball down the right-field line.
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Steven Souza Jr's foul ball came through a narrow gap in protective netting before striking the woman left of the Rays' first-base dugout.
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" Bartman added, "I am relieved and hopeful that the saga of the 2003 foul ball incident surrounding my family and me is finally over.
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For every curse of the Billy Goat, for every foul ball stirring Steve Bartman's 10th-man instincts, there is a Cleveland moment to match.
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Gennett left Tuesday night's game before the bottom of the fifth inning after injuring himself while hitting a foul ball in the fourth inning.
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She was blinded in her right eye after being hit by a foul ball at a minor-league game in Eastlake, Ohio, in 2014.
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A 79-year-old woman died after being struck in the head by a foul ball at a Los Angeles Dodgers game in 2018.
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Seattle C Steve Clevenger (fractured right hand) departed Wednesday after being hit by a foul ball and will be placed on the disabled list.
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A Massachusetts woman has sued the Boston Red Sox and team owner John Henry for negligence after being hit by a foul ball in 2014.
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C Ramon Cabrera was hit on the hand by a foul ball during the Milwaukee series and then hit in the same spot again Friday.
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Cabrera was shaken up after taking a foul ball off his mask in the seventh inning and was removed for Raffy Lopez in the eighth.
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The game was delayed momentarily in the first when home plate umpire Jerry Layne was shaken up after taking a foul ball off his mask.
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Chris Christie made a helluva catch, snagging a foul ball at Tuesday's NY Mets game ... and the reaction was pretty much what you'd expect. BOOOOOOOOOOO!!
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The 22-year-old shortstop first nervously, but then gleefully, puts on a delightful mime-act with the foul ball eaten up by the catwalk.
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It has emphasized the importance of fan safety, but that fans assume the risk of an occasional foul ball or broken bat entering the stands.
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But umpire Phil Cuzzi, who was not standing far away, somehow ruled it a foul ball, and in those days, the call was not reviewable.
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Alou has changed his story a couple of times about the play, but replays indicate that he probably would have gloved Luis Castillo's foul ball.
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" He added that he was "relieved and hopeful that the saga of the 2003 foul ball incident surrounding my family and me is finally over.
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It was then an older fan picked up the ball and gave the ball back to the kid celebrated that he had gotten a foul ball.
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Mariners 1B Danny Valencia made a diving attempt for the foul ball, and the ball glanced off Randazzo's head, sending the umpire tumbling to the ground.
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The incident comes just days after a young girl was struck by a foul ball at Minute Maid Park in Houston during a Chicago Cubs vs.
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Depending on where you're sitting in a baseball stadium, you're liable to have an up-close-and-personal experience with a foul ball or a dinger.
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The victory may be overshadowed by a left shoulder injury sustained by Adalberto Mondesi, who was hurt diving for a foul ball hit by Yolmer Sanchez.
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In the eighth inning, Cubs outfielder Moisés Alou ran for a foul ball, only to be foiled by Chicago fan Steve Bartman, who interrupted the play.
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Syndergaard was waiting for it, and he ripped a foul ball into the seats in right field, far enough and hard enough to excite the fans.
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Then, for some dumb-ass reason, a second Yankees fan decided he really, really wanted a spring training foul ball from some chump on the Phillies.
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The change comes after a 2-year-old girl who was hit by a foul ball at Minute Maid park in Houston was hospitalized in May.
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Manfred's comments on Tuesday came less than a week after a young child was struck by a foul ball at a game in Houston and hospitalized.
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So, when he happened to catch a foul ball left-handed at the Mets-Cardinals game on Tuesday night, baseball fans at Citi Field weren't quite thrilled.
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Davis reached over the side wall into the stands to catch a foul ball hit by Adam Frazier, who was leading off the bottom of the first.
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Then Bartman, seated down the left field line, reached for a foul ball and tipped it away from the outstretched glove of leaping Cubs outfielder Moises Alou.
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Cubs shortstop, Addison Russell, lunged headfirst into the stands while trying to chase down a foul ball, which caused a whole lot of mess on the field.
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The latter was initially called a foul ball, but with Texas down a run with two runners on and no outs, manager Jeff Banister challenged the call.
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Wednesday's game between the Yankees and Twins was stopped for about four minutes after a foul ball off Todd Frazier's bat appeared to strike a young fan.
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NOTES: SS Aledmys Diaz did not play because of swelling around his right eye after taking a foul ball in the ninth inning Monday off his face.
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Another rule, though, is less about avoiding ridicule and more about practicality: When a foul ball screams into the press box, you've got to protect your laptop.
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Severino got some help from Todd Frazier with a nice diving catch of a foul ball off of Joe Mauer's bat, but then he walked Jorge Polanco.
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Fowler was injured after colliding with an unpadded electrical box along the right-field line when he tried to catch a foul ball in the first inning.
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The Yankees were one of those teams but relented last January, a few months after a foul ball severely injured a toddler behind the third-base dugout.
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Not long after Trost made that comment, a fan at Yankee Stadium was hit in the head by a foul ball off the bat of Aaron Judge.
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Albert Almora Jr. of the Cubs was in tears after a line drive foul ball off of his bat fractured the skull of a 2-year-old girl.
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Earlier in the plate appearance, Judge grimaced on a foul ball but stayed in the game before getting pulled when the Yankees noticed he was not running well.
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Home plate umpire Brian O'Nora left in the third inning, when he ran off the field in obvious discomfort shortly after taking a foul ball off his groin.
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In fact, according to NBC Sports Chicago's David Kaplan, the adult attendee whose actions were in question had apparently already gifted a foul ball to the little boy.
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Souza covered major ground to track down a foul ball in a controversial catch, the five-minute delay on reviewing preceded a two-run home run for Toronto.
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On Monday, the New York Mets third baseman tracked a foul ball from Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Alex Verdugo into the stands, snagging an insane highlight-reel catch.
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Blue Jays right fielder Randal Grichuk left the game in the fourth after his head hit a security guard's chair while he tried to catch a foul ball.
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Cleveland DH Carlos Santana was drilled in the back of the head by a foul ball in the opener, leaving his availability in question for Friday's tilt. 2.
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You may have noticed that the foul ball netting doesn't extend to cover every seat at the ballpark -- just the areas where foul balls are considered especially dangerous.
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NOTES: Rays RF Steven Souza Jr. said he visited a woman who was hospitalized after a foul ball he hit struck her during a home game last Friday.
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If you catch a foul ball with your beer cup at a baseball game, the only reasonable thing to do is to chug the remainder of your beer.
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Cespedes has been battling a sore leg since he dove into the stands in pursuit of a foul ball in a game against the Miami Marlins April 23.
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The game was delayed for about 26 minutes after the seventh so a woman struck by a foul ball in the bottom of the inning could be treated.
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They had Mark Teixeira, who had a resurgent season last year until it was ended in mid-August by a freak accident, a foul ball off his shin.
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Yoenis Cespedes hurdled the short wall down the left-field line while unsuccessfully chasing down a foul ball, causing fans to try to scramble out of the way.
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Crawford enjoyed the game from club-level seats, and a fan passed him a foul ball that landed nearby while he sipped on Orange Crush, his favorite soda.
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Chicago Cubs outfielder Albert Almora Jr. remained shaken up following Wednesday night's game, after a small child was struck by a foul ball he hit during the fourth inning.
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Zlotnick, the New York real estate developer who sustained permanent eye damage from a foul ball, remains in touch with a growing number of fans injured in recent years.
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The risk of concussion is always there and I was reminded of that this season after missing over 2365 games as a result of diving for a foul ball.
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Gordon has not played since May 22 when he suffered a fractured right wrist in a collision with 3B Mike Moustakas while chasing a fly foul ball at Chicago.
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With Rayburn still nursing a strained quadriceps from running over a bullpen mound in pursuit of a foul ball last weekend at Wrigley Field, Barnes pinch ran for him.
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But giving away a foul ball made me feel good, since I remembered how desperately I wanted a ball every time I sat in the stands as a kid.
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The game was delayed for nearly 14 minutes in the bottom of the fifth when plate umpire Larry Vanover was hit in the right forearm by a foul ball.
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In another injury scare for the Mets, first baseman Pete Alonso received X-rays on his left hand after being hit by a foul ball in the eighth inning.
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During a pivotal playoff game, he reached for a foul ball at Wrigley Field and thus possibly prevented his team's left fielder from catching it for a crucial out.
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The Philadelphia Phillies made their decision after a young girl was struck in the face by a foul ball off the bat of Phillies infielder Freddy Galvis in August.
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Fans began to jeer the governor after they realized he had snagged the foul ball off St. Louis Cardinals player Paul DeJong at the top of the third inning.
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Boston left fielder Andrew Benintendi, who hit a foul ball he hit off his left foot in the fourth inning, was removed for a pinch hitter in the fifth.
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Pittsburgh Pirates ball-girl Olivia does an outfielder's job and then some, catching a wild foul ball that hopped off of both a tarp and fence, with her bare hand.
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Another fan appeared to be hit by a foul ball Wednesday in Los Angeles The girl in Houston apparently wasn't the only baseball fan hit by a batted ball Wednesday.
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He suffered a concussion when he was struck in the mask with a foul ball on April 13 and went on the seven-day concussion disabled list the following day.
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The game was delayed about 15 minutes in the bottom of the first when home plate umpire Chad Fairchild was struck by a Holliday foul ball on his right elbow.
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In 2010, the Georgia Court of Appeals allowed a man whose 6-year-old daughter's skull was fractured by a foul ball at Turner Field to sue the Atlanta Braves.
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In his first season in Chicago, the team fell one foul ball (the Steve Bartman incident against the Florida Marlins) and one win short of returning to the World Series.
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La Stella suffered his injury Tuesday when he was struck by his own foul ball, while Pence is on the injured list with a groin injury suffered on June 16.
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The female fan at Globe Life Park struck by a Willie Calhoun foul ball Sunday during the Texas Rangers' 9-4 victory over the Detroit Tigers was taken to the hospital.
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Baltimore loaded the bases on a bloop base hit to right field that was changed from a foul ball after a review of 4 minutes, 10 seconds initiated by the Orioles.
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Garver, usually a catcher but playing first base in his first start since suffering a concussion after taking a foul ball off his mask against the New York Yankees on Sept.
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An Illinois man is suing the Chicago Cubs and Major League Baseball after he was hit in the face with a foul ball, leaving him temporarily blind in his left eye.
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Royals manager Ned Yost came out to discuss with plate umpire Greg Gibson that it should have been a foul ball off Flower's foot, but it was not a reviewable play.
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A woman struck in the head by a foul ball off the bat of Los Angeles Dodgers star Cody Bellinger was transported to a hospital for tests and observation on Sunday.
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Once word of the incident got around to the Ohio State team, they sent the kid a ball signed by the entire team to make up for the lost foul ball.
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Last August at Dodger Stadium, Linda Goldbloom, 79, was sitting in a second-deck seat behind home plate when a foul ball cleared the netting and struck her in the head.
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Yes, there he is: Steve Bartman, the once-reviled, newly forgiven fan who deflected a crucial foul ball in 2003 to help keep Dusty Baker's Cubs from reaching the World Series.
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It was an eerily familiar scene at Wrigley Field as a Cubs player reached out to grab a foul ball for an out, only to have a fan snatch it away.
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After Springer's homer, there was a brief delay in the game when a foul ball off the bat of Michael Brantley struck a member of the security staff in Houston's dugout.
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It had occurred four days earlier, when she was struck in the head by a foul ball while watching the Los Angeles Dodgers play the San Diego Padres at Dodger Stadium.
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It didn't matter that many fans have always done exactly what Bartman did that night — reach for a foul ball that a player on the home team is trying to catch.
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LOS ANGELES — A day after a girl was hit by a foul ball at Dodger Stadium, the Los Angeles Dodgers said they were studying how to improve the protective netting there.
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Alonso barely missed a homer on a foul ball, but a few pitches later, he hit a laser off the first row of seats in left field for his 35th home run.
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The SNY reporter pulled what is possibly the slickest move in the history of sports when he casually caught a foul ball during a live report, like it was no big deal.
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A vendor at the Oakland Coliseum was innocently trying to sell ice cream to fans during an Oakland A's-Houston Astros game when a foul ball suddenly hit him in the butt.
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Rays first baseman Logan Morrison recorded the defensive play of the game, chasing down a Howie Kendrick foul ball and catching it while tumbling into the stands to end the seventh inning.
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Bellinger, 23, was immediately concerned after seeing his foul ball strike the girl in the head, and checked on her between innings, as captured in a Twitter video shared by a fan.
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After a 3-hour rain delay, Fowler started at right field -- and made headlines when he crashed into a metal electrical box while chasing Jose Abreu's foul ball in the 1st inning.
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Shaw appeared to hit a foul ball off his right foot during his at-bat in the second inning and did not come out for defense in the bottom of the second.
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Then Steve Bartman interfered with a foul ball in Game 6 of the N.L.C.S. when the Cubs held a 23-2 series lead and a 3-0 lead in the eighth inning.
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But though the Cubs would have had a better chance of winning if Moises Alou had recorded an out on that foul ball, Bartman did not lose that game for the Cubs.
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Garrett Whitley -- a former MLB first-round pick and current Rays farmhand-- was forced to go to the hospital Monday after he was terrifyingly struck in the face by a foul ball.
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Brody said she was not sure which player hit the foul ball that killed her mother — "It doesn't matter," she said — but she would like baseball to improve the safety for fans.
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In the bottom of the first inning, he ruptured the patella tendon in his right knee trying to chase down a foul ball along the right-field line at Guaranteed Rate Field.
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In May, a 2-year-old who was hit by a foul ball at Houston's Minute Maid Park suffered a skull fracture, bleeding, brain contusions and brain edema, according to the Houston Chronicle.
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Rookie Nick Senzel exited due to illness after leading off the game with a single, and catcher Juan Graterol departed after taking a foul ball from Cain off his mask in the fifth.
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Chavis says he had a minor league teammate who ripped a foul ball into a fan a few years ago in similar fashion ... and the guy took a while to recover from it.
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That same season, we sneaked into seats behind home plate and my father went sprinting down a portal after a foul ball and came back with a mangled Walkman and a bruised knee.
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At that moment, the Cubs stood five outs from the pennant, precisely where they were when the fan, Steve Bartman, got his hands on a foul ball before Moises Alou could reach it.
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There were additional ground rules: Treat the new netting like a wall; if a foul ball hits the net, the play is dead; if a fair ball hits it, the play is live.
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There were additional ground rules: Treat the new netting like a wall; if a foul ball hits the net, the play is dead; if a fair ball hits it, the play is live.
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Jace Fry loaded the bases with two outs in the eighth inning before being relieved by Alex Colome, who saw Santana belt a long foul ball before striking him out to end the inning.
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Three pitches before Cespedes' homer, he hit a foul ball that whizzed past the head of a ducking Syndergaard, who began the rally with a one-out double to the warning track in centerfield.
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A dedicated but hungry Pittsburgh Pirates fan who attempted to catch a foul ball during their game at PNC Park against the San Diego Padres wound up catching a face full of nachos, instead.
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He was chasing a foul ball down the right field line in the fourth inning and trying to make a sliding catch when he slammed into the stool being held by a security guard.
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Porcello, as he did all night, jumped ahead with a strike and a foul ball, but Hicks battled his way back into the count, fouling off three more pitches before running the count full.
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Baseball is reacting to an incident last September at Yankee Stadium in New York in which a 1-year-old girl was hit in the face by a foul ball and suffered serious injuries.
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It was his daughter, weeks shy of her second birthday, who was hospitalized with multiple facial fractures and bleeding on the brain after being hit by a foul ball at Yankee Stadium on Sept.
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It will be a challenge to pull it off against the surging Yankees, almost as unlikely, you might say, as a pitcher snatching a foul ball right before it lands in his catcher's mitt.
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As a Yankee, Fowler suffered a ruptured patellar tendon diving for a foul ball in the first inning of his M.L.B. debut last June, causing him to miss the rest of the 2017 season.
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Chicago Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant also pushed for a similar cause in May after a 2-year-old girl was struck in the head by a foul ball during a Houston Astros vs.
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The St. Louis Cardinals' Adam Wainwright tore his Achilles while leaving the batter's box on a foul ball in 2015, but said on Twitter after Clark's comments that he still believed pitchers should hit.
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The little girl was in the stands at Minute Maid Park in Houston when Cubs star Albert Almora Jr. ripped a line drive foul ball down the 3rd baseline that struck the child directly.
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St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina experienced every baseball player's worst nightmare when a foul ball struck him in the groin during a game with the visiting Chicago Cubs on Saturday, according to multiple outlets.
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When, two years ago, a 2-year-old girl was struck in the head by a foul ball at Yankee Stadium, all teams were required to extend protective netting to the far end of dugouts.
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With the team five outs away from reaching the World Series, a fan named Steve Bartman reached over a rail to grab a foul ball that would otherwise have been corralled by a Cub outfielder.
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The first baseman climbed up on the ledge and snared a Keon Broxton foul ball at the last moment, the kind of snare that had Rizzo smiling at the sublimeness of his own fielding artistry.
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RF Steven Souza Jr. said he visited a woman hospitalized after he hit her with a foul ball during a home game last Friday, and brought her flowers and a card signed by the team.
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Whitley will see a battery of specialists for advice on a rehabilitation schedule in his recovery from multiple injuries, but Cash said no eye damage occurred when Whitley was struck by a foul ball Monday.
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Yankees pitcher Jordan Montgomery was struck in the head by a foul ball while he signed autographs down the right-field line during batting practice before Saturday's game against the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium.
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He was also the lucky recipient of a foul ball as he watched the game from the Guaranteed Rate Club seating, where he enjoyed a buffet, rainbow-layered birthday cake and his soda of choice.
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But a guy who attended the Rangers game on Sunday obviously had different ideas, and decided that the best way to enjoy his expensive-ass nachos was by using them to catch a foul ball.
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One day after a fan a Dodger Stadium got hit in the head by a foul ball, the Los Angeles Dodgers announced Monday that they would extend the protective netting further down the foul lines.
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In Sano's first at-bat, he sent a foul ball so high that it hit the roof at Tropicana Field — becoming the first player to do so in fair territory in 19 seasons of Rays' baseball.
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Another foul ball led to an injury at a baseball stadium over the weekend, sparking a request from two Illinois senators for data from Major League Baseball surrounding such instances and the league's response to them.
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"This equates to a rate of roughly two injuries per every three games, making a fan injury from a foul ball a more common occurrence than a batter being hit by a pitch," the study said.
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Houston attorney Richard Mithoff released a statement to USA Today Sports on behalf of the family, explaining that the toddler sustained a skull fracture with subdural bleeding, bruising and swelling when the foul ball hit her.
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My sister, around seven at the time, announced on the way there that she would catch a foul ball in her cap, showing us from the car back seat how she would hold her cap up.
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He retired 13 of the first 14 batters and did not allow a base runner until Chris Coghlan's one-out single in the fifth — one pitch after left fielder J. B. Shuck dropped Coghlan's foul ball.
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Facing right-hander Adam Warren, Bell cracked a foul ball to left field, building a buzz throughout PNC Park, before launching a bomb that carried over the right-field wall and bounced into the Allegheny River.
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A recent 13-3 stretch has put them back in first place in the American League Central despite serious injuries to Alex Gordon and Mike Moustakas, who collided while chasing a foul ball on May 22.
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Yet on opening day at Kauffman Stadium, during a game against the Mets, a fan sitting just past the new netting was hit hard in the mouth by a foul ball that he didn't see coming.
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Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp (great name) commentator Roger Hoover (pretty good name, as well) was just minding his own play-calling business when a foul ball went straight into his money-maker—in this case, his laptop.
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The Brewers play only losing teams after this weekend's series in St. Louis, but must face them without the reigning N.L. most valuable player, Christian Yelich, who broke his right kneecap Tuesday on a foul ball.
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Almora's wife: 'Alberto wants to remain in this little girl's life forever' Almora's wife, Krystal Almora, told CNN on Thursday that her husband texted her about his grief shortly after the foul ball, and after the game.
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Manager Andy Green said Margot began feeling stiffness in his calf while breaking for a foul ball in Tuesday's game but that he didn't acknowledge the ailment until after he grounded out in the third inning Wednesday.
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It was the second time in a two-week period that the governor had an awkward encounter at a MLB event: On July 18 he was mercilessly booed after catching a foul ball at a Mets game.
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A guy at a Pittsburgh Pirates game on Wednesday night went for the glory when a foul ball flew his way and ended up with a face smothered in nacho cheese and what appears to be chili.
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Still, a young girl in Houston was struck by a foul ball off the bat of Chicago Cubs outfielder Albert Almora Jr., in late May, prompting an increase for netting to be further extended down the lines.
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Washington (CNN)Chris Christie hasn't caught a break politically in months -- but at least the New Jersey governor snagged a foul ball Tuesday night at a game between the New York Mets and the St. Louis Cardinals.
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At the San Diego Padres game last night—in which they were walloped 14-1 by the Atlanta Braves, but no matter—a foul ball from Braves outfielder Ender Inciarte skyrocketed into the seats behind home plate.
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Watch as the Oakland A's fan below barehands a foul ball with one hand while nursing his beer in the other, by all appearances not wasting a single drop of suds as he coolly corrals the cowhide.
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In the fifth inning today at Yankee Stadium, a young fan was struck by a foul ball off the bat of Todd Frazier and judging by the reactions of the players on the field, it was horrifying.
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There is virtually no legal consequence for a team when a fan loses vision, sustains a fractured skull or needs multiple operations after being hit by a foul ball — all of which have happened in recent years.
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In the sixth inning of a spring training game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Yankees, one Yankees fan had a tough time getting his glove on a foul ball down the first-base line.
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That's yet another rule of the press box: If you pluck a foul ball from midair with your bare hands, while saving your laptop and making a kid happy, you absolutely must brag about it on Twitter.
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The Dodgers have not said when they will extend the netting, but their announcement came on Monday, one day after a young fan was hospitalized after being struck by a foul ball hit by outfielder Cody Bellinger.
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The delay at the start of the inning was the result of Jeff Nelson, the home plate umpire, being removed as a result of his having taken a foul ball off his facemask in the fourth inning.
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Major League Baseball says the injury to the little girl struck by a foul ball at the Houston Astros game is "extremely upsetting" ... and insists the league is focused on finding more ways to protect the fans.
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The league extended the netting after high-profile incidents in which batted balls struck fans -- including a man who was blinded in one eye by a foul ball during an August 2017 game at the Cubs' Wrigley Field.
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Encarnacion, who hit a 428-foot foul ball to left in Monday's series opener, reached the left field bleachers in the third with a fair ball for a two-run homer, his eighth long bal of the season.
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It appears as though the fan was so captivated by the idea of catching a foul ball hit by Pirates player, Jung Ho Kang, that he forgot he was already holding a beer and a plate of nachos.
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Red Sox stud Michael Chavis is worried for the Cubs star who hit a child with a foul ball earlier this week ... telling TMZ Sports his ex-teammate was messed up for WEEKS after doing the same thing.
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Not once (above), but twice (below) did Joey see the desperate outstretched hands of Nationals fans, hoping to take away a souvenir foul ball, only to decide "fuck it" and deny them outright to their stupid, stinking faces.
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The Mets asked for a crew chief review but following a 1:47 review, the call stood as a foul ball when it appeared umpires could not get a good angle at the ball traveling into the dusk.
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Tickets purchased for a Major League Baseball game state the risk of being hit by a foul ball, limiting the team's liability -- but Loos says he was at the game as a guest and didn't purchase a ticket.
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Donaldson's first homer followed an 220-minute, first-inning delay after plate umpire Dana DeMuth was forced from the game after being struck on the left forearm by a foul ball off the bat of Atlanta's Freddie Freeman.
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Bartman is the star-crossed fan who drew widespread scorn, accused of helping to extend the Cubs' World Series drought, after he interfered with a catchable foul ball in Game 219 of the 2003 National League Championship Series.
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Trailing 2-0, Boone stuck with Severino even through a 12-minute delay before the top of the fifth inning, when home plate umpire Jeff Nelson left the game with a concussion he sustained on a foul ball.
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Formed in 1984, Yo La Tengo, named after what the New York Mets' Venezuelan shortstop Elio Chacón would yell to catch a foul ball, played its first show at Maxwell's, the Hoboken dive bar and 20153-cap concert venue.
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And talking about it out loud doesn't rise to the stuff of Cub legend like denying a billy goat entrance to the ballpark or reaching over the wall for a foul ball that your left fielder might have caught.
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But Andy Zlotnick, who has advocated extending protective netting since he sustained permanent eye damage after being hit by a foul ball at Yankee Stadium eight years ago, said that Wednesday's episode was proof that baseball's standards are inadequate.
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That amounted to one hit roughly every 15 minutes — including the one seen above, which looks like a foul ball, but is actually a blooper that probably should have been caught but instead turned into a run-scoring double.
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At Sunday's game between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals at Wrigley Field, a foul ball down the right field line was picked up by one of the ball boys and tossed to a young child in the front row.
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The family of the 2-year-old girl who was struck in the head by a foul ball during a Houston Astros game on May 29 against the Chicago Cubs is speaking out about their daughter's condition following the accident.
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NOTES: Texas 3B Adrian Beltre was hit in the head by a foul ball in the dugout, but the Rangers said he went through a concussion test and passed before returning to the game for his fifth-inning plate appearance.
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Las Vegas infielder Eric Campbell's spun a grounder toward the first base dugout, very much a foul ball, which had so much English, that the damn thing reanimated and curled back within the first base foul line right before the bag.
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Dietrich, who had a two-run homer and two-run double, was hit by a foul ball off the bat of Christian Yelich in dugout during the ninth inning and was being evaluated for a possible concussion after the game.
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Possibly, but that seems pretty cunning for a dude who also jumped over the fence in the front row, in full view of every security guard for a foul ball from a guy not even on the team he supports.
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And after Boone was ejected from Saturday night's game for arguing — with plenty of profanity — that Giancarlo Stanton's strikeout should have been called a foul ball, he realized after looking at replays that the umpires had made the correct call.
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Nationals principal owner and vice president Mark Lerner said he became emotional last month when he saw that a 4-year-old girl was hit by a line drive foul ball during a Chicago Cubs-Houston Astros game in Houston.
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But that was not enough to prevent moments like Wednesday's incident and one last August, when a 79-year-old woman died after being hit by a foul ball at Dodger Stadium — a death the team did not acknowledge until February.
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For the Cubs, whose long history is riddled with the mythology of billy goat curses, black cats and a fan who was vilified for interfering with a foul ball, theirs is now a history of winning, and their identity changes forever.
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One man left his glove at home and was still able to catch a foul ball in his beer cup at the Chicago Cubs and New York Mets game on Monday night, much to the enjoyment of the crowd at Wrigley Field.
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EditorsNote: Fixes to show fan hit by bat, not foul ball Nats pound Marlins, Harper's hitting streak at 13 games MIAMI — Bryce Harper, bare-chested in the Marlins Park visitors' locker-room, revealed a wicked sunburn on his arms and upper torso.
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The Rays played spectacular defense behind Archer — Souza made a diving catch of a foul ball in the Rays' bullpen, and Dickerson made a leaping catch against the wall in left field before throwing to double off the runner at first base.
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At the Big Ten baseball tournament in Omaha, Nebraska on Sunday, one young Ohio State fan thought he was about to snag the ultimate game token, a foul ball, when a grown-up Iowa fan swooped in to swipe the ball for himself.
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Only the 2003 team won its division series, before that fateful Game 6 in the N.L.C.S., when a fan deflected a critical foul ball and shortstop Alex Gonzalez booted a ground ball that would have ended the eighth inning with the Cubs ahead.
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Rogers found no "credible or immediate threat" that Payne would be struck by a foul ball or bat, while Smith might face less risk than a typical fan because she had been injured at a Dodgers game and thus might have greater awareness.
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A 2-year-old girl who was struck in the head by a foul ball last month at a Cubs-Astros game in Houston sustained a skull fracture, bleeding on the brain and seizures, according to a lawyer hired by the girl's family.
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On Saturday morning, Greg Bird, the young first baseman who has taken over for the retired Mark Teixeira, arrived at work with a right foot that was too sore for him to play, the lingering effect of a spring training foul ball.
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David Waldstein: Updating the situation earlier, with an injured person in Houston's dugout, the Astros released a statement saying that it was a paramedic supervisor who was hit by a foul ball off the bat of Michael Brantley in the fifth inning.
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Vogt's fly ball to the warning track to open the fifth was the hardest-hit shot of the game for the A's until Coghlan drilled a single into left field after J.B. Shuck lost a foul ball in the sun that hit off his glove.
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Smyly, who also caught a foul ball as he came together with first baseman Logan Morrison and catcher Curt Casali, allowed Boston's only hit and walked two in eight brilliant innings, pitching out of a bases-loaded, no-out jam in the third inning.
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ESPN, which first reported the story, said the incident happened in the top of the ninth inning when a San Diego Padres batter hit a foul ball to the first-base side of home plate that flew over the protective netting and hit Linda Goldbloom.
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Espinal's interest in the issue was prompted by a meeting with Andrew Zlotnick, a Yankees fan who was seriously injured in 2011 by a foul ball off the bat of Hideki Matsui, a former Yankee who was then a member of the Oakland Athletics.
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Shortly after, Girardi was in tears after Fowler, a 22-year-old prospect, called up to make his first appearance for the Yankees, ruptured the right patella tendon in his right knee while trying to run down a foul ball in the first inning.
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The move came after high-profile incidents in which batted balls struck fans -- including the girl struck at Yankee Stadium in September 2017 and a man who was blinded in one eye by a foul ball during a game at the Cubs' Wrigley Field a month earlier.
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Many fans blamed that so-called "curse" with an incident in 2003 when Cubs fan Steve Bartman, with his team ahead 3-0 and five outs from a World Series berth, reached for and deflected a foul ball that a Chicago outfielder appeared ready to catch.
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TORONTO — Yankees third baseman Todd Frazier, who hit the foul ball that struck a young girl in the face at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday afternoon, said he spoke to the girl's father on Thursday and had been told that she was recovering well in a hospital.
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But even before a 11.743-4 loss on Saturday to the Orioles, Bird, the heir apparent to Teixeira at first base, was scratched from the lineup with soreness in his right foot, which he had hurt late in spring training by bouncing a foul ball off it.
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They asked Renteria about a terrible incident the night before, when a New York Yankees prospect named Dustin Fowler, in the first inning of his major-league career, chased a foul ball and slammed into the railing at Guaranteed Rate Field, rupturing his right patellar tendon.
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The movement for baseball teams to add more fan protection ramped up after a 4-year-old girl was hit by a line-drive foul ball off the bat of the Chicago Cubs' Albert Almora Jr. during a game against the Astros in Houston in late May.
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Houston area lawyer Richard Mithoff provided the Chronicle with hospital records showing the child had a fractured skull, associated subdural bleeding, brain contusions and brain edema after being hit by a foul ball off the bat of Chicago Cubs outfielder Albert Almora Jr. on May 21.
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While watching the Red Sox play against the Minnesota Twins in Fenway Park in 2014, Stephanie Taubin claims she suffered "facial fractures" and "neurological damage" after being hit by a foul ball, according to video footage from ABC News of her testimony at Suffolk County Superior Court on Monday .
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The precedent was set 22013 years ago, when a Missouri appellate court ruled against the claim of one S. J. Crane, who suffered a broken rib and internal injuries after being hit by a foul ball during a game involving the Kansas City Blues of the American Association.
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A broad outcry after a small girl was hit in the head by a foul ball at Yankee Stadium two years ago spurred Major League Baseball to do something it had repeatedly resisted: It compelled all 30 teams to extend protective netting to the far end of dugouts.
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But the team's position may be shifting, just weeks after the Mets made extensive additions to their netting at Citi Field and less than 10 days after a fan at Yankee Stadium was struck in the head and bloodied by a foul ball off the bat of Aaron Judge.
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C Derek Norris who left the game Saturday night in the bottom of the fifth inning with a sprained left middle finger, the result of getting hit with a foul ball, was announced as a pinch hitter in the ninth but replaced when the Rockies made a pitching change.
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The last time the Cubs had been in this position — playing a Game 6 at home in 2003, needing one victory to capture the National League pennant — they had unraveled, blowing a 3-0 lead to the Florida Marlins after a fan named Steve Bartman interfered with a foul ball.
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Social media exploded with mentions of the Bartman incident, which happened on a foul ball in the 2003 playoffs, but just like in that game it was a failure of the Cubs's pitching staff on Wednesday, as much as anything to do with the fan, that really caused the brief implosion.
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The episode was at least the third time this season that a fan at Yankee Stadium had been struck by either a foul ball or a shattered bat during a game, and each instance has added to the debate about what Major League Baseball should do to better protect its fans.
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That piece is Sonny Gray, an accomplished right-handed starting pitcher, who came from the Oakland Athletics in a trade for three minor leaguers: infielder Jorge Mateo; the right-hander James Kaprielian, the Yankees' first-round draft pick in 2015; and outfielder Dustin Fowler, who was called up to the major leagues in June only to sustain a ruptured patellar tendon chasing a foul ball in the first inning without even coming to bat.
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