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’ve been to a few MLB games and it is sad to see people, young and old, get greedy for foul balls: rude, pushy and uninteresting. It’s just a baseball; buy one for $15. Players know kids need help catching a foul and regularly walk up to a youngster and hand over an extra ball. And wow, the line drive fouls are super fast when entering the audience area!
I wear a Walter Payton jersey from time to time, and I don’t feel emasculated or gay.
He had a condition called Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis, or PSC for short.
It wrecked his liver and developed into cancer of the bile ducts, and that’s what killed him. His only hope was to get a transplant before the cancer spread.
Well, he didn’t get one.
I had PSC, and another disease called Sarcoidosis in my liver as well.
A real one-two punch that doomed it. Unlike Payton, I did get a new liver.
For all of his athleticism, fame and fortune, he couldn’t win that battle.
So I proudly wear a shirt with his name and number, to honor him.
I don’t wear shirts with names like “Nike, or “North Face”, or whatever…
But I’ll wear his.👍🙂
You really can’t go to pro ball games anymore. There are always drunk jerks around, cussing and hollering, you really can’t take your kids
😂 Yea that was classic. Snags the ball, and just walks away. COLD Man.👍
“Guy should get a major punch in the mouth. What a prick.”
+1
Exceptions can be made! Thanks for the comments.
You don't call catching a ball "taking a ball". It was a good catch, he should have tossed it to her.
Got to love us some sportsball!
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