On July 16 of last year, Cubs bopper Kyle Schwarber won a game with a 10th-inning home run off Reds closer Raisel Iglesias at Wrigley Field.
The first walk-off homer of Schwarber’s career landed in the left-field basket in front of a pair of youngsters, who strained their little bodies as they reached with all their might into the basket to retrieve the ball. With a cold quickness, though, a bearded ballhawk in a blue throwback jersey with “Mai Tai Guy” stitched on the back reached down and swiped the ball with his left-handed glove. One of those controversies that lasts a news cycle or two, but really amounts to nothing in the end, was born.