--- 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: 2026-02-23T16:37:10.154Z 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Chris Christie Is So Unpopular He's Even Getting Booed at Baseball Games  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Jul 19, 2017 3:12 PM UTC  Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie attends the game between the New York Mets and the St. Louis Cardinals at Citi Field on July 18, 2017 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie attends the game between the New York Mets and the St. Louis Cardinals at Citi Field on July 18, 2017 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City.Mike Stobe/Getty Images  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) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4864294/chris-christie-mets-foul-ball-booed/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4864294/chris-christie-mets-foul-ball-booed/"},"headline":"Chris Christie Is So Unpopular He's Even Getting Booed at Baseball Games","datePublished":"2017-07-19T15:12:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T16:37:10.154Z","description":"\"Nice to see him get from the beach here to the ballpark\"","url":"https://time.com/4864294/chris-christie-mets-foul-ball-booed/","keywords":["Chris Christie","New Jersey","Baseball","New York","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf50fd307bbc593eb/6988d63ffb4eac84b7892f86/chris-christie-mets-booing.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf50fd307bbc593eb/6988d63ffb4eac84b7892f86/chris-christie-mets-booing.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"St Louis Cardinals v New York Mets","caption":"St Louis Cardinals v New York Mets","creditText":"Mike Stobe/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"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":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/chris-christie/","name":"Chris Christie"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4864294/chris-christie-mets-foul-ball-booed/","name":"Chris Christie Is So Unpopular He's Even Getting Booed at Baseball Games"}}]}] ```