12-Year-Old Boy at Texas Rangers Game Beats the Odds, Wow!

bleacherreport ^ | Scott Spradling

[JoeProBono]

Last night I was watching the Texas Rangers play the Boston Red Sox, and I ended up seeing one of the most incredible odd-defying feats I have ever seen at a baseball game.

In the 5th inning Josh Hamilton for the Rangers was batting and hits a foul ball into the stands. Not that big of a deal right but the really cool thing is it was caught by a 12-year-old boy (the only info we have is his name is C.J. from Cedar Hills, Texas) with his glove cleanly. It was smiles and high-fives all around and I was thinking how special that was for this kid.

Then the impossible happened, not three pitches later in the same at-bat Josh Hamilton hit another foul ball and the same kid caught it again in his glove cleanly. The entire crowd erupted giving him a standing ovation.

[JoeProBono]

[samtheman]

cool

[SIDENET]

SWEET.

[JoeProBono]

Foul Ball

[mware]

Any video???

[Krankor]

From what I heard on the radio, the kid was in the hospital earlier in the week and Hamilton promised to hit him two foul balls.

[JoeProBono]

[incredulous joe]

http://texas.rangers.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090817&content_id=6467198&vkey=news_tex&fext=.jsp&c_id=tex

pretty cool!

[The Shrew]

I caught two at a Colorado Rockies game in 2004 - one clean and got a really cool "Clean Catch" pin. My 12 year old son and friend were pretty impressed.

I'm sure they would rather have made the catches themselves as this young man did.

Regards,

TS

[ThreePuttinDude]

Now that I’ve stopped laughing,
I’ll have to say that was the funniest thing I’ve heard in a while...thanks

[JoeProBono]

THNX!!

[Pan_Yan]

Ping

[charmedone]

I think you are overstating the significance of this fete. It only happens a few dozen times a year.

[mware]

Thanks for the link. Yeah way cool.

[TexasCajun]

Just too cool! ...lifetime memory.

Thanks for the link.

[Artemis Webb]

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[who knows what evil?]

Even better; Texas beat the Red Sox (boo, hiss) and took over the lead in the wild card race...

[Jabba the Nutt]

I saw a guy catch a foul ball with his mitt at a Dodgers game in LA in the 80’s. The funny part about this, was the guy was at least 35 and he brought his mitt and caught a ball.

[Mr_Moonlight]

Sign ‘im UP !