A fan named Dan ended up with Aaron Judge’s 50th home run ball, and the clip shows how it happened. Judge smacked one deep into the seats, and the ball sparked chaos in the crowd. Dan, wearing a white shirt, thought the ball might be coming his way, quickly took off his hat, then realized it wasn’t and put the hat back on. The ball bounced into the section below him, and that’s where things got messy.
A guy with a glove should have had the easiest grab of his life, but he blew it. The ball bounced off bodies, hands, maybe even a tray of food, and dropped nearby. Multiple fans lunged toward it, but none came up with it clean. Dan didn’t rush in. He paused, watched the ball bounce around, and waited for his moment, like he was playing Plinko on The Price is Right. The ball slipped past one last attempted dive and rolled to a spot where Dan could scoop it up clean.
Security let him hold onto it, and later Dan got to meet Judge and ask him a quick question. It was a moment of patience paying off as others dove and scrambled. Dan waited, watched, and grabbed the ball when no one else could.