--- 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=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 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=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch This Baseball Fan Effortlessly Catch a Foul Ball While Holding a Baby > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ## 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, 2015 Nuccio 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.” \[[_ESPN_](http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/%5F/id/13138017/chicago-cubs-fan-keith-hartley-robs-los-angeles-dodgers-first-baseman-adrian-gonzalez-foul-ball-holding-7-month-old-son)\] ## Transcript [ NOISE ] What makes a video go viral? Here's our guess. Mishka, I love you. [ NOISE ] Number one, cute animals. [ LAUGH ] Charlie, Charlie bit me. [ MUSIC ] [ FOREIGN ] [ MUSIC ] [ UNKNOWN ], we're going to Disneyland. Oh, my god. Number two, cute kids. [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] Number 3, remixes. [ MUSIC ] Whoa, oh my God, oh my God. [ LAUGH ] Oh my God. Whoo. Number four, spontaneity. Look at all those Number five. Cute kids and cute animals. Put this all together and it will certainly end up on your Facebook feed. 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