Louisville and TCU are currently locked into a slugfest elimination game in the College World Series from Omaha, and runs have been at a premium. Not so for foul balls, though, which have flown aplenty.
And so with that many hits flying out of play, it’s only proper that one young fan should find his way to a pair of them. He didn’t bring a glove to the park on Thursday, because he’s a true hero.
No glove. No problem. #CWS pic.twitter.com/7LfNBTvAP3
— NCAA Baseball (@NCAACWS) June 23, 2017
And then the second in the sixth:
2 foul balls at the same #CWS game!?!?
— NCAA Baseball (@NCAACWS) June 23, 2017
Frantic research being done to see if that's a record!! pic.twitter.com/gW9Xl93yOM
The infinite nature of hitting baseballs to special spots with baseball bats allows for a very, very small probability of two hits reaching this fan twice in the same game. We won’t pause to calculate those statistics here, only to point our that our man hauls in both — the first one not so clean, the second perfectly clean — and that he’s a hero of the first base line stands.
TCU currently has a tenuous 4-3 lead over Louisville in the fifth inning. The loser here goes home.