Yeah, yeah, major-league ballplayers are brilliant and fearless and athletic and all, but could they catch a foul ball in a beer cup while holding a phone?
In the top of the fifth of Tuesday night’s Atlanta Braves vs. San Diego Padres game, Gabby DiMarco was sitting in the upper-deck stands of Petco Park when Atlanta’s Ender Inciarte fouled a ball back in her direction. And then, glory:
She catches the ball in her cup, celebrates and drains the cup. That, my friends, is talent.
“It bounced from behind me, I was trying to catch it all, and it landed in my cup,” DiMarco told MLB.