--- title: Yankees Fan Can't Catch A Foul Ball description: A Yankees fan misses three different chances to catch a foul ball canonical: https://time.com/4055653/yankees-fan-cant-catch-foul-ball/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-30T16:28:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:25:24.906Z og:title: Inspirational Yankees Fan Keeps Trying to Catch a Foul Ball og:description: Never, never, never give up og:url: https://time.com/4055653/yankees-fan-cant-catch-foul-ball/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Inspirational Yankees Fan Keeps Trying to Catch a Foul Ball twitter:description: Never, never, never give up twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Inspirational Yankees Fan Won't Give Up on Quest to Catch a Foul Ball  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 30, 2015 4:28 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 30, 2015 4:28 PM UTC Normally you don’t have to buy such an expensive ticket to be this publicly embarrassed. Little did this fan know what a nightmare his terrific seats on Yankee Stadium’s third-base line would become at Tuesday’s Red Sox-Yankees game. The unfortunate guy was caught on camera butchering three separate shots at catching a foul ball. First came a pop foul that he dropped. OK, pop-ups can be tricky. But that was followed by a ground ball that went right through his hands and into his chest. Finally, a merciful ball boy tried to throw the guy a bone by softly tossing him a ball that ended up hitting him in the face. The man was forced to reach over the wall to pick up his long-awaited prize. Is any souvenir worth so much of your dignity? \[mlbvideo id=”508346983″ width=”400″ height=”224″ /\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4055653/yankees-fan-cant-catch-foul-ball/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4055653/yankees-fan-cant-catch-foul-ball/"},"headline":"Inspirational Yankees Fan Won't Give Up on Quest to Catch a Foul Ball","datePublished":"2015-09-30T16:28:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:25:24.906Z","description":"Never, never, never give up","url":"https://time.com/4055653/yankees-fan-cant-catch-foul-ball/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Sports topic","Baseball","MLB","New York Yankees","yankees","sports fans"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4055653/yankees-fan-cant-catch-foul-ball/","name":"Inspirational Yankees Fan Won't Give Up on Quest to Catch a Foul Ball"}}]}] ```