One of the reasons I could never be a broadcaster is that I could never remain calm in an unexpected situation. My call of a buzzer-beater or a walk-off homer would be “oh s---!!!” and I’d be fired before the end of the night. I don’t even know what I’d do if a baseball came into my broadcast booth while I was calling a game. I’d probably get so flustered that I would fail at both calling the game and catching the ball. It’d bounce off my hands and knock over a soda, ruining my computer, I’m sure.
But Marc Schwartz, the announcer for the independent Atlantic League’s Somerset Patriots, not only managed to snag a foul ball that came his way but also gave a very professional call of the whole play.