Multiple times a season, a fan will make a nice snag in the stands with a mitt, and we’ll hear something like “That’s why you wear your glove to the park.”
But what if you don’t have a glove? Some people try to use hats, which are often inferior to the barehand approach. One woman at the Cardinals game tonight, though, utilized a different tool altogether:
Damn! Just enveloped that baseball, and that’s an awkward way to try to catch anything, much less a major league pop fly. Well played.
It’s hard to say how much of her approach was self-defense, but that’s always a factor for foul balls, regardless, so it’s quite acceptable.
And hey, the Cardinals ended up putting away the Pirates 8-4, which means St. Louis is undefeated since this woman caught a foul ball in her purse. Maybe this turns their entire season around! (Or, considering their rash of injuries, maybe they should put her in right and bat her third.)