Some of us never come close to catching a foul ball while attending a baseball game. But one Seattle Mariners fan Monday night must have carried a horseshoe or four-leaf clover after catching foul balls on consecutive pitches.
In the bottom of the first inning of the Mariners’ 6-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals, Josh Rojas committed a foul down the left line, which was caught by a Julio Rodríguez fan who was wearing a T-shirt and not He had baseball gloves on, much to his surprise. the delight of the T-Mobile Park crowd.
But that fan was not done showing off. On the next shot, Rojas fouled another ball in the same direction with the same result.
“He has both! He has both!” Mariners announcer Aaron Goldsmith exclaimed.
According MLB statistics, there is a 0.0001% chance of catching two foul balls in a row. Of the 48,000 seats in Mariners Stadium, that fan was sitting in a very lucky one.
