Posted on 09/07/2022 5:45:39 PM PDT by Morgana
A grown man in a Juan Soto jersey intercepted a baseball thrown to a little girl by an outfielder at a Washington Nationals game Thursday night.
Avery Hilliard, 10, a youth softball player, came with her glove to the weeknight game - ready to catch a ball. But, when player Joey Meneses lobbed one into the stands where Hilliard and her teammates where waving their arms, an adult man towered over the children, snatching the ball and quickly turning away.
'Out of no where [the man] stands up and takes the ball. He had no remorse and his girlfriend was just sitting there laughing,' Gina Hilliard, Avery's mother, told DailyMail.com
Gina was recording her daughter lined up in the front row of the stands when Meneses threw the ball clearly intended for the kids.
Avery held her softball glove up high as Meneses threw his baseball toward her. 'Catch it, catch it,' one teammate eagerly screams.
Within a blink of an eye, the unidentified man in the Soto jersey comes in from off camera and intercepts the ball that was only a foot away from landing in Avery's glove.
'What?!' one incredulous girl can be heard saying in the video while Avery turned around in disappointment.
The still unidentified man swiftly walked away without making eye contact with the young baseball fans.
Gina posted video of the baffling interaction on Twitter with the tag: 'Grown man steals baseball from little girl.' It has since gone viral with nearly 4.5 million views.
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I don't understand this. Grown ass adults knocking over kids for the baseball that is knocked in the stands. Sometimes it's not always men, it's women too.
When I was a kid if some adult caught one often they look to the kid near them and hand them the ball. I don't ever remember them knocking over or beating out a kid to get it.
Guy should get a major punch in the mouth. What a prick.
Blame eBay.
People in his life will eventually recognize The Baseball Jerk.
It actually looks like she would not have gotten it. And so what...the ball was for anyone...She was all over the place.
The ball isn’t worth anything. Its not signed. It wasn’t a foul ball catch or a homer catch.
The player threw the ball for the kids not for some goofball.
The article said the guy looks like the same guy that has done this at other games. Yes I had a feeling as soon as I saw the video that this ball went up on ebay that night, along with all the other balls he beat kids out for.
“I don’t understand this. Grown ass adults knocking over kids for the baseball that is knocked in the stands.”
Did you read the article?
Dick move.
He stole more from that little girl than just a baseball. This is what society has become.
“A grown man in a Juan Soto jersey...”
Wearing another man’s jersey as a “grownup.” Ugh.
Yes I read the article...did you read everything I wrote or just one sentence?
” I don’t ever remember them knocking over or beating out a kid to get it. “
I KNOW THAT MAN!!!
It is none other than Jorge Bolivar Sosa!!! I can tell by reading the back of his jersey!
You park in handicap spots with a fake placard, don’t you?
“No one else matters: It’s all about Me.”
DC people. 🙄
I haven't personally had this happen to me, but having been to and watched a lot of MLB games recently, I think all the balls have some sort of laser/3D/futuristic marking on them and someone from the home team comes out and scans it. Puts it in a data base somewhere.
I don't think this is the case for practice balls, but I think I've seen it done with foul balls, but I didn't really place close attention to it.
““I don’t understand this. Grown ass adults knocking over kids for the baseball that is knocked in the stands.””
He didn’t knock over any kids.
The ball was thrown, not knocked.
It’s not about the money.
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