First there was the fan who prevented Moises Alou from catching a foul ball on Tuesday.
"I feel triumphant," he said, after catching a foul ball hit by the Rockies' Todd Helton, who had announced his retirement the day before.
In the fourth, he blacked out after running into a padded brick wall in right field while catching a foul ball.
Last night, Citi Field: There was Mayor Bloomberg, improbably catching a foul ball will that segment be worked into one of his already inescapable campaign ads?
The flip in Oakland and his leap into the field boxes at Yankee Stadium after catching a foul ball are perfect examples of things that do not show up in the box score.
He tripped and tumbled while catching a foul pop in the sixth, and made an error on the next play, letting a hard grounder by Pedroia whistle past his glove.
With closer Francisco Rodriguez struggling in the top of the ninth, Davis got the third out of the inning by catching a foul pop-up on the run and tumbling over the rail into the Mets' dugout.
When a ballpark dies, and its concrete and steel are smashed to bits, it survives in memories: attending a first game there; smelling the mix of grass, hot dogs and beer; rising with thousands of others to watch a home run take flight; and catching a foul ball (finally!).
If this has you thinking about your odds of catching a foul ball, a home run or even a tossed ball into the crowd after a third out at the park, FanGraphs did a back-of-the-envelope calculation years ago.
Marazzi, who has written five books including "The Rules and Lore of Baseball" (Stein and Day, 1980) and also is host of the radio show "Grand Stand Sports" on WICC in Bridgeport, said that he decided to act on his idea a couple of years ago when the Yankees infielder Enrique Wilson fell completely into the stands while catching a foul pop fly with a runner on first base.
