\u201cBut that was, like, processing film \u2014 and I mean, it was 20 years ago,\u201d she said by phone Monday. \u201cThat was very different. So maybe (it helped) a little bit when it comes to lighting and putting things in perspective and stuff. But no, nothing, especially not anything digital. Because I didn\u2019t do anything to that picture. I just sent it, just like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Twice in the first eight innings Saturday, Adell reached over the 8-foot wall in right-center field to take away home runs from the Seattle Mariners. Then J.P. Crawford led off the ninth with a deep drive into the corner, and Adell did it again, sprinting 95 feet, leaping on the run and snaring it from the sky. The Angels held on for a 1-0 victory.<\/p>\n
In the video, you can see Kraus in a navy Angels sweatshirt, seated at first, then rising with her cellphone. She\u2019s a sports mom. She knows how to get the shot.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a bunch of adult children, and they all played sports,\u201d Kraus said. \u201cI\u2019ve just been used to grabbing my phone as fast as I can to take pictures of them getting goals or baskets or whatever.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kraus was there with her husband and their youngest son, Jameson, a 7-year-old who is crazy for baseball. She is a die-hard Angels fan, and though the family has visited about half of the stadiums in MLB, Angel Stadium is home. They try to catch at least one game a week when the Angels are in town.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just our favorite thing to do, our favorite way to spend a day,\u201d Kraus said. \u201cWe just love it. We\u2019re huge sports fans, period, but when it comes to baseball, we just love being there. It\u2019s something about Angel Stadium. It\u2019s so relaxing, so friendly and family-oriented. It\u2019s great.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Kraus family usually doesn\u2019t sit down the right-field line. But about an hour before game time on Saturday, they found seats there for $40 apiece and figured they\u2019d have a chance to get a ball. They met that goal \u2014 thanks to the ballboy \u2014 but had no idea they\u2019d get so much more.<\/p>\n
\u201cI (tagged) it on Jo Adell\u2019s Instagram and his wife\u2019s because I was just like, \u2018Oh, man, this would be a great picture for them,\u2019\u201d Kraus said. \u201cI didn\u2019t really think anything of it. And then the Angels posted something like, \u2018Show us your best pictures from the night,\u2019 so I posted mine. And then I went to bed because by that time, after we all wound down and stuff, it was probably midnight.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo then, at 6 o\u2019clock in the morning, my husband\u2019s like, \u2018Everybody\u2019s posting your picture!\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018What?\u2019 And I get on my phone, and it was just crazy. Tons of messages, tons of posts.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n Kayleigh Kraus, in the blue shirt next to the foul pole, found herself in the middle of the action during Jo Adell\u2019s final home run robbery of Saturday\u2019s game. (Brian Rothmuller \/ Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)<\/p>\n
The highlight so far, she said, came from their favorite player, Mike Trout, who replied to an Angels post on X that showed Kraus behind Adell. \u201cFront row seat to the Jo Show !!!\u201d, Trout wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n