--- title: Red Sox Player Tosses Ball to Boy and Adult Takes It at Yankees Game description: Watch a baseball player toss a ball to a little boy and then watch an adult snatch it before he can catch it. canonical: https://time.com/75574/watch-a-red-sox-player-giveth-a-ball-to-a-child-then-watch-an-adult-taketh-it-away/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-24T15:48:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:09:04.047Z og:title: WATCH: Baseball Player Throws Ball to Child and Adult Steals It og:description: Rude og:url: https://time.com/75574/watch-a-red-sox-player-giveth-a-ball-to-a-child-then-watch-an-adult-taketh-it-away/ 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: WATCH: Baseball Player Throws Ball to Child and Adult Steals It twitter:description: Rude twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch a Red Sox Player Giveth a Ball to a Child, Then Watch an Adult Taketh It Away  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 24, 2014 3:48 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 24, 2014 3:48 PM UTC Boston Red Sox short stop Xander Bogaerts tossed a ball to a young boy in the stands, but an adult standing next to him reached over and grabbed it before he could catch it during last night’s game against the Yankees at Fenway Park in Boston, [SportsGrid](http://www.sportsgrid.com/mlb/worst-human-ever-snatches-baseball-from-little-boy-at-red-sox-game-makes-world-a-sadder-place/) reports. As the sports blog [notes](http://www.sportsgrid.com/mlb/worst-human-ever-snatches-baseball-from-little-boy-at-red-sox-game-makes-world-a-sadder-place/), if the adult was not with the child to begin with, we can only hope that he gave the ball to the child afterwards. The Internet loves to hate these kinds of moments. “Evil woman” is what the web users called a woman who did the same thing to a little girl at the Houston Astros Minute Maid Park based on a 2011 [YouTube video](http://jezebel.com/5810772/evil-lady-steals-steals-foul-ball-from-little-girl). More recently, after seeing [how happy this little boy was](http://www.sportsgrid.com/mlb/this-is-why-you-should-always-give-a-foul-ball-to-a-kid-video/) after a man handed him a foul ball that he caught at a San Francisco Giants-Colorado Rockies game in Denver Monday, there’s really no other choice. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/75574/watch-a-red-sox-player-giveth-a-ball-to-a-child-then-watch-an-adult-taketh-it-away/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/75574/watch-a-red-sox-player-giveth-a-ball-to-a-child-then-watch-an-adult-taketh-it-away/"},"headline":"Watch a Red Sox Player Giveth a Ball to a Child, Then Watch an Adult Taketh It Away","datePublished":"2014-04-24T15:48:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:09:04.047Z","description":"Rude","url":"https://time.com/75574/watch-a-red-sox-player-giveth-a-ball-to-a-child-then-watch-an-adult-taketh-it-away/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Sports topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"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/75574/watch-a-red-sox-player-giveth-a-ball-to-a-child-then-watch-an-adult-taketh-it-away/","name":"Watch a Red Sox Player Giveth a Ball to a Child, Then Watch an Adult Taketh It Away"}}]}] ```