--- description: During Friday's game against the Cardinals at Pittsburgh's PNC Park, one Pirates fan was undeterred by lack of a baseball glove and opted to catch a foul ball with a bucket of popcorn. Maybe the players should follow suit title: Pittsburgh Pirates Fan Catches Foul Ball In Popcorn Tub At PNC Park image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt065d35f210c3d703/6986891e361760b2d390b521/screen-shot-2014-04-06-at-1-03-10-pm.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Pirates Fan Discovers Popcorn Tub Makes Good Baseball Glove by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 6, 2014 5:53 PM CUT  by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 6, 2014 5:53 PM CUT There’s a unique type of panic reserved for unprepared baseball fans who see foul balls whizzing toward them. But on Friday, at a Cardinal-Pirates game at Pittsburgh’s PNC Park, one Pirates fan decided that he wasn’t going to let his lack of a glove stop him from making an incredible catch when a foul ball went soaring into the stands. He held up his popcorn tub and watched in awe as the ball sank directly into it, sending popcorn flying everywhere. Here’s a close-up of the action: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/51050/baseball-fan-catches-foul-ball-with-popcorn-tub/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/51050/baseball-fan-catches-foul-ball-with-popcorn-tub/"},"headline":"Pirates Fan Discovers Popcorn Tub Makes Good Baseball Glove","datePublished":"2014-04-06T17:53:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:32.735Z","description":"During Friday's game against the Cardinals at Pittsburgh's PNC Park, one Pirates fan was undeterred by lack of a baseball glove and opted to catch a foul ball with a bucket of popcorn. Maybe the players should follow suit","url":"https://time.com/51050/baseball-fan-catches-foul-ball-with-popcorn-tub/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Sports topic","viral","Baseball","pittsburgh"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt065d35f210c3d703/6986891e361760b2d390b521/screen-shot-2014-04-06-at-1-03-10-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt065d35f210c3d703/6986891e361760b2d390b521/screen-shot-2014-04-06-at-1-03-10-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-04-06 at 1.03.10 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/51050/baseball-fan-catches-foul-ball-with-popcorn-tub/","name":"Pirates Fan Discovers Popcorn Tub Makes Good Baseball Glove"}}]}] ```