--- title: Chris Christie Booed at Mets Game After Catching Foul Ball description: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was booed by fans at a New York Mets baseball game on Tuesday night, after catching a foul ball in the stands canonical: https://time.com/4864294/chris-christie-mets-foul-ball-booed/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-19T15:12:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-08T09:24:04.153Z article:section: Politics og:title: Chris Christie Caught a Baseball at a Mets Game and Was Immediately Booed By Fans og:description: "Nice to see him get from the beach here to the ballpark" og:url: https://time.com/4864294/chris-christie-mets-foul-ball-booed/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf50fd307bbc593eb/6988d63ffb4eac84b7892f86/chris-christie-mets-booing.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2085 og:image:height: 1173 og:image:alt: St Louis Cardinals v New York Mets og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Chris Christie Caught a Baseball at a Mets Game and Was Immediately Booed By Fans twitter:description: "Nice to see him get from the beach here to the ballpark" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf50fd307bbc593eb/6988d63ffb4eac84b7892f86/chris-christie-mets-booing.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Chris Christie Is So Unpopular He's Even Getting Booed at Baseball Games > Sponsored content. 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Chris Christie defends his beach visit during the New Jersey government's shutdown_  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Jul 19, 2017 3:12 PM UTC  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Jul 19, 2017 3:12 PM UTC New Jersey Gov. [Chris Christie](http://time.com/4843960/chris-christie-new-jersey-government-shutdown-beach/) was booed by fans at a New York Mets baseball game on Tuesday night, after catching a foul ball in the stands. Christie was watching the Mets play a home game against the St. Louis Cardinals when he made the catch. He gave the ball to a kid nearby, but that failed to stop the booing. “Nice to see him get from the beach here to the ballpark,” Cardinals’ play-by-play announcer Dan McLaughlin said, according [NJ.com](http://www.nj.com/mets/index.ssf/2017/07/watch%5Fchris%5Fchristie%5Fcatches%5Ffoul%5Fball%5Fat%5Fmets%5Fgam.html), referencing Christie’s [visit earlier this month](http://time.com/4845053/chris-christie-sand/) to a state beach that he had closed to the public in the midst of a [government shutdown](http://time.com/4844284/christ-christie-budget-deal-government-shutdown/) in New Jersey. [Photos captured](http://time.com/4843762/chris-christie-beach/) the Governor sitting with friends and family members on an otherwise deserted beach during the 4th of July holiday weekend. Even before that incident, a [Quinnipiac University poll](https://poll.qu.edu/new-jersey/release-detail?ReleaseID=2465) found that only 15% of New Jersey voters approved of Christie — a rating that made him the [most unpopular governor in any state](http://time.com/4818151/chris-christie-poll-new-jersey/) in 20 years. > [](https://twitter.com/MLBMayhem/status/887469509115826176) ## Transcript You know, I don't count going out on the beach after I have been working all morning to sit and talk with my wife and our guests for 40 minutes before I had to leave and come back to work as getting sun. That wasn't what I was out there to get. The way I took Cord's question was. Hey, were you out laying out getting tan today? That wasn't what I was doing and that's not what those pictures show. I don't apologize for it. I don't back away from it. And I think my poll numbers show that I don't care about political optics. What care about is doing what's right and wrong. And what was right for my family was for my family to be together. And for me to be with them and to do what we were doing. I understand, probably better than any other governor who's had this job, what it's like to get a lot of attention. And that cuts both ways. But if you think for a second that what happened over the last 24 hours, Would bother me a bit or make me change my mind about the way I interact with my wife and my children. No job, not this one or any other, is more important to me than my relationship with my wife and my relationship with my kids. And shame on those people. Who wanted to make this. As if we were taking advantage or something. I just don't agree with it nor believe it. 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