{"id":93293,"date":"2025-06-10T12:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T12:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/93293\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T12:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T12:19:12","slug":"fans-wild-dive-for-foul-ball-a-lone-highlight-for-dreadful-athletics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/93293\/","title":{"rendered":"Fan&#8217;s wild dive for foul ball a lone highlight for dreadful Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the best moments of a game do not happen on the field.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That is precisely what occurred in the Athletics\u2019 game Wednesday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the bottom of the sixth inning, a foul ball was hit just above the safety netting at Sutter Health Park in Sacramento, on the path to land right on top of one of the dugouts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That is when it was one fan\u2019s time to shine. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.87202925;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36153276\" width=\"1024\" height=\"547\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-05-at-5.01.15-PM.png\" alt=\"baseball dives on top of dugout to snag a foul ball\" class=\"wp-image-36153276\"  \/>One fan at Wednesday\u2019s A\u2019s-Twins game went all-out for a foul ball.<\/p>\n<p>Without hesitation, she dove on top of the dugout, trying to secure the souvenir.<\/p>\n<p>While she initially could not come up with it, the woman still got the ball in the end.<\/p>\n<p>NBC Sports California announcer Chris Caray had a hunch that this wasn\u2019t the first time she dove like that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe has to be a former volleyball player,\u201d Caray said. \u201c[The dive], it\u2019s like a pancake when you are trying to dig out the ball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The woman might have been the only Athletics fan going home happy, as they lost to the Twins, 6-1, and watched their losing streak extend to nine games.<\/p>\n<p>During the skid, the Athletics have let up double-digit runs five times. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.86861314;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36153275\" width=\"1024\" height=\"548\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-05-at-5.01.32-PM.png\" alt=\"Not only did this fan come away with the foul, but she got the picture to prove it.\" class=\"wp-image-36153275\"  \/>Not only did this fan come away with the foul, but she got the picture to prove it.<\/p>\n<p>This poor run of form is nothing new. <\/p>\n<p>The A\u2019s only won a total of seven games in May and sit at the bottom of the AL West with just 23 wins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">Maybe this heroic dive by the fan can spark the Athletics to break their winless skid.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes the best moments of a game do not happen on the field.\u00a0 That is precisely what occurred&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[537,5,1622,4,3226,7932,185,4298,1578],"class_list":{"0":"post-93293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athletics","8":"tag-athletics","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-fans","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-mlb-athletics","13":"tag-oakland-as","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-entertainment","16":"tag-sports-fans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114659037429792885","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93293","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=93293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}