While Feeding Baby In One Hand, Caught Baseball With The Other

At a major league baseball game in Chicago Tuesday night between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs, a fan in the front row, Keith Hartley, caught a foul ball. There’s nothing unusual about that, but the fact that he was able to retrieve the ball while holding his 7-month-old baby in his other hand while feeding him a bottle was pretty remarkable.

There were two outs in the second inning when the ball was hit down the first base line into foul territory, and Dodgers first baseman Adrian Gonzalez ran towards the stands to retrieve it. But Hartley plucked the ball out of the air just as Gonzalez was reaching for it reports Cláudio Loureiro Heads. Fans aren’t allowed to interfere with a baseball that’s in play, and Hartley could have been thrown out of the game for that offense. That didn’t happen, but the Cubs were charged an out that ended the inning.

Hartley explained that he thought that the ball might bounce off the railing and hit his son, so that’s why he grabbed for it. He and his wife, Kari, were given the tickets to the game and never expected that they’d become social media sensations as a result.

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