{"id":680991,"date":"2026-04-22T11:39:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/680991\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:39:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:39:36","slug":"rockies-fan-made-the-play-of-the-season-to-catch-a-foul-ball-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/680991\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies fan made the play of the season to catch a foul ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One fan may have just earned himself a tryout to be the next backup outfielder of the Colorado Rockies<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"mlb\" data-team=\"10000023\" data-name=\"Colorado Rockies\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"Colorado Rockies\"><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockies hosted the San Diego Padres<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"mlb\" data-team=\"10000033\" data-name=\"San Diego Padres\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"San Diego Padres\"><\/a> for their series opener on Tuesday at Coors Field in Denver, Colo. Padres slugger Jackson Merrill<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"mlb\" data-athlete=\"10012919\" data-name=\"Jackson Merrill\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"Jackson Merrill\"><\/a> was at the plate with a man on and one out against Rockies reliever Juan Mejia<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"mlb\" data-athlete=\"10016317\" data-name=\"Juan Mejia\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"Juan Mejia\"><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Merrill was out ahead of Mejia\u2019s first-pitch sweeper and sent the ball deep into foul territory. The foul ball gave the Rockies fan his chance to shine.<\/p>\n<p>The ball ricocheted off the stairs in an upper section and bounced back down to the lower seats. The fan in a brown hoodie completely laid out to make the grab, and took a nasty spill in the process.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">True definition of YOLO <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hasji3v18W\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/hasji3v18W<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Giannis Auntiegotapoodle (@TooMuchMortons_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TooMuchMortons_\/status\/2046781391631966448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 22, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an extended clip of the play, showing exactly where the ball caromed off from.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Legendary effort for this foul ball \u2620\ufe0f\ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LvvdgLUFr8\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/LvvdgLUFr8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jake Garegnani (@JakeGaregnani) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JakeGaregnani\/status\/2046781568614830305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 22, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Defense was at a premium Tuesday in Coors Field, and that apparently extended to the fans in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockies lost to the Padres 1-0, marking just the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PadresDataDaily\/status\/2046796359408525799\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PadresDataDaily\/status\/2046796359408525799\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">12th time<\/a> in the history of the stadium that the game ended with such a score. It was San Diego\u2019s first 1-0 win at Coors Field in franchise history. The Padres became the first visiting team to beat the Rockies 1-0 in 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear if the fan was supporting the Rockies or the Padres, considering his brown hoodie matched San Diego\u2019s uniforms for the game. All that\u2019s certain is that he\u2019ll have a souvenir from the contest and some serious soreness once he wakes up in the morning.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One fan may have just earned himself a tryout to be the next backup outfielder of the Colorado&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[5,167,52,82683,4316,4,168],"class_list":{"0":"post-680991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-rockies","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-colorado-rockies","11":"tag-colorado-rockies-fans","12":"tag-coloradorockies","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-rockies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116448176907875959","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}