--- title: Baseball Fan Catches Foul Ball While Holding Baby at Cubs Game description: Keith Hartley caught a foul ball one-handed during a Chicago Cubs-Los Angeles Dodgers game on Tuesday night with his son in his arms canonical: https://time.com/3933299/baseball-chicago-cubs-father-foul-ball-baby-sports/ author: Alissa Greenberg article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-24T03:38:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:22.777Z og:title: Watch This Fan Catch a Foul Ball While Holding a Baby og:description: Keith Hartley effortlessly mixes parenting with sporting prowess. og:url: https://time.com/3933299/baseball-chicago-cubs-father-foul-ball-baby-sports/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7e0da6847c45f6ff/698858120b72e3b4856e4a06/478218482.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: LA Dodgers at Chicago Cubs og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch This Fan Catch a Foul Ball While Holding a Baby twitter:description: Keith Hartley effortlessly mixes parenting with sporting prowess. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7e0da6847c45f6ff/698858120b72e3b4856e4a06/478218482.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch This Baseball Fan Effortlessly Catch a Foul Ball While Holding a Baby ## Video: 5 Elements of A Viral Video [Watch (HLS stream): 5 Elements of A Viral Video](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8) (1:31)  _Published 2015-06-22. 5 Elements of A Viral Video_ by [Alissa Greenberg](https://time.com/author/alissa-greenberg/) ## Alissa Greenberg Jun 24, 2015 3:38 AM UTC  Keith Hartley being interviewed by a TV reporter after he snagged a foul ball while bottle-feeding his infant 7-month-old son during the second inning of a Chicago Cubs vs. Los Angeles Dodgers game on June 23, 2015 Keith Hartley being interviewed by a TV reporter after he snagged a foul ball while bottle-feeding his infant 7-month-old son during the second inning of a Chicago Cubs vs. Los Angeles Dodgers game on June 23, 2015Nuccio DiNuzzo—Chicago Tribune/TNS/Getty Images by [Alissa Greenberg](https://time.com/author/alissa-greenberg/) ## Alissa Greenberg Jun 24, 2015 3:38 AM UTC Although fans catching foul balls in Chicago have [historically been much maligned](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3200582.stm), things went a bit differently for Keith Hartley on Tuesday. Hartley, who [caught](http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/%5F/id/13138017/chicago-cubs-fan-keith-hartley-robs-los-angeles-dodgers-first-baseman-adrian-gonzalez-foul-ball-holding-7-month-old-son) a foul ball one-handed during a Chicago Cubs–Los Angeles Dodgers game on Tuesday night, is being celebrated largely because of what he had in his other hand — his 7-month-old son. The moment came in the game’s second inning, as Dodgers first baseman Adrian Gonzalez ran to catch a foul ball down the first baseline, ESPN reports. And although it earned the Cubs an out for fan interference, ending the inning, Twitter and Vine still had a Wrigley Field day lauding Hartley’s dexterity and insouciant paternal instincts. Hartley told ESPN he attempted the catch for fear that the ball might ricochet off the rail and hit his son Isaac. > [](https://twitter.com/pescami/status/613533001629200384) > [](https://twitter.com/TravHaneyESPN/status/613529791942144001) Despite their brief interaction, Gonzalez did not react to Hartley’s catch. “Hopefully he’s not too angry,” Hartley told ESPN. “He is on my fantasy team. I want to keep him happy.” \[[_ESPN_](http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/%5F/id/13138017/chicago-cubs-fan-keith-hartley-robs-los-angeles-dodgers-first-baseman-adrian-gonzalez-foul-ball-holding-7-month-old-son)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3933299/baseball-chicago-cubs-father-foul-ball-baby-sports/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3933299/baseball-chicago-cubs-father-foul-ball-baby-sports/"},"headline":"Watch This Baseball Fan Effortlessly Catch a Foul Ball While Holding a Baby","datePublished":"2015-06-24T03:38:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:22.777Z","description":"Hartley caught the ball because he was afraid it might ricochet off the railing and hit his 7-month-old son","url":"https://time.com/3933299/baseball-chicago-cubs-father-foul-ball-baby-sports/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Sports topic","father","Baseball","baby","Chicago Cubs"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7e0da6847c45f6ff/698858120b72e3b4856e4a06/478218482.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alissa Greenberg","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alissa-greenberg/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7e0da6847c45f6ff/698858120b72e3b4856e4a06/478218482.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"LA Dodgers at Chicago Cubs","caption":"LA Dodgers at Chicago Cubs","creditText":"Nuccio DiNuzzo—Chicago Tribune/TNS/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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3933299/baseball-chicago-cubs-father-foul-ball-baby-sports/","name":"Watch This Baseball Fan Effortlessly Catch a Foul Ball While Holding a Baby"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","description":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/vgQtqA8c/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-06-22T13:42:30.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3933299/baseball-chicago-cubs-father-foul-ball-baby-sports/","duration":"PT1M31S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3933299/baseball-chicago-cubs-father-foul-ball-baby-sports/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```