It’s potential that the highest fan catch of the 12 months occurred on Monday night time at Camden Yards in Baltimore.
Within the prime of the third inning, Cleveland’s Josh Naylor yanked a foul ball 415 ft with an exit velocity of 108.5 mph that hooked effectively foul of the right-field foul pole and into the higher deck. An Orioles fan from Pasadena, Md., named Tim Byer, was parked by himself within the nook of the higher deck and barehanded a ball ticketed for Eutaw Road past the right-field wall.
As if the catch wasn’t spectacular sufficient, the fan was additionally holding a cellphone and a drink in his left hand as he snagged the ball together with his proper. Deservedly so, the fan held each of his arms up and tipped his cap to the Orioles devoted, who applauded his efforts for one of the spectacular fan catches you’ll ever see.
The one one that wasn’t so shocked by the catch was, effectively, Tim, who was a highschool baseball outfielder 25 years in the past and received a state championship in 1997 at Chesapeake Excessive College.
“Does it include a contract?” he joked throughout an interview on the MASN broadcast with Rob Lengthy, even namedropping broadcaster Rex Barney, who was famed for saying “give that fan a contract!” after nice catches within the stands.
Lengthy was additionally notably impressed that Tim made the catch together with his proper hand regardless of being a right-hand thrower.
“However whenever you’re good, you are good,” Tim mentioned with out skipping a beat.
Good certainly, and now Orioles followers all over the place will know the legend of Tim from Pasadena and his unimaginable catch, his first foul ball in 30 years of attending video games. Actually, the one Orioles followers who missed it reside had been … Tim’s spouse and daughter, who had been having fun with the bouncy home.
However all’s effectively that ends effectively, as a result of Tim’s daughter made it again to her seat in time to make it onto the printed, sitting in her dad’s arms with the now well-known foul ball he snagged.