It is well documented here on BC that we love when baseball fans put some real effort into catching foul balls and home run balls. But usually the fans here in the states are somewhere in the vicinity of where the ball is hit for them to make their SportsCenter-worthy play.
That’s not the case in Taiwan. An empty stadium + a home run = a dead sprint across three sections of seats to make a play that would make Jim Edmonds give a standing O.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gXqRz-_6cY
You just don’t see that kind of effort here in the states. Outside of foul ball guy, Zack Hample, who lives and breathes for this shit, you just don’t see it.
I need to see this more as the MLB season winds down. Teams with basically zero attendance like the Braves, Marlins, and Rays need to send some ball hawks out in the bleachers to make some plays.
Side note: Pretty weird to carry this giant stuffed thing around in dugout.
