Aaron Decide did as Aaron Decide often does and homered into the precise discipline seats within the fourth inning at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night time.
However that’s solely the place the attention-grabbing half in The Bronx started.
Padres proper fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. leaped on the wall and couldn’t make the catch — however a fan within the first row of the stands did, snagging Decide’s twelfth lengthy ball of the season.
The green-jersey-wearing fan who caught the ball in his glove began celebrating with a gaggle of supporters, leaping up and down in pure jubilation.
Solely there was one downside.
Amid the exaltation within the seats, the ball trickled out of the fan’s glove and rolled alongside the highest of the wall in entrance of a fan in a grey jersey, who slyly snagged the ball and pocketed it, seemingly with out the opposite group realizing.
A fan subsequent to the individual within the grey jersey apparently ended up with the ball sooner or later, they usually ended up returning it to the group who had initially caught the ball, resulting in a selfie with the memento.
All of this was captured by the YES Community cameras and ultimately narrated by play-by-play man Michael Kay.
“Watch the man within the grey jersey, ‘I’m going to take this and put it proper in my pocket … no person noticed it,’” Kay imagined the fan’s thought course of. “I simply love the informal method… no person’ll see this.”
“Solely the YES cameraman noticed it,” analyst Paul O’Neill identified.
What appeared like a possible fourth straight loss shortly grew to become an enormous night time for the Yankees after they rallied for a 10-run seventh inning to drag away with a 12-3 win over the Padres after relievers Adrian Morejon and Wandy Peralta imploded.
The 2 groups will end their sequence on Wednesday night time with aces Max Fried and Dylan Stop set to do battle.
