A Seattle Mariners fan earned reward from baseball followers and his favourite workforce for handing over a historic house run ball to a bit of boy — weeks after an infamously viral fan caught excessive warmth.
Glenn Mutti-Driscoll was met with thunderous applause at T-Cell Park when he caught Mariners slugger Cal Raleigh's house run ball throughout Wednesday evening's sport towards the Colorado Rockies.
The house run marked the primary time a Mariners participant reached the 60-home run mark in a single season.
Mutti-Driscoll raised the ball within the air and celebrated for round 15 seconds earlier than he all of the sudden handed the memento over to 12-year-old Marcus Ruelos, who was seated close by.
“The entire thing was surreal,” Mutti-Driscoll advised MLB.com on Thursday. “It simply was occurring so quick, and like, standing there with it, and I used to be simply trying down at a child, and he deserves greater than me. … And I suppose if it's serving to convey no matter — baseball's popularity [has] these kinds of feel-good tales.”
“A real act of kindness, a real gentleman. Marcus was in tears. We had been all in shock,” Galan Ruelos, Marcus' dad, stated on Fb.
The daddy-son duo was then escorted to a reception space, the place they obtained an autographed bat in change for the baseball.
“To this sort gentleman- thanks from the underside of my coronary heart for this honest act of kindness,” Galan Ruelos stated. “My son will without end be indebted to you and I hope someday in his life he'll repay the same act of kindness to a different child in his lifetime. The lesson: All the time be variety.”
The workforce invited Mutti-Driscoll and his household to the ballpark on Thursday to satisfy Raleigh on the sphere forward of the sport.
“Earlier than right this moment's sport, Cal met up with the Mariners fan who caught No. 60 and handed it off to a different younger fan… You like to see it ,” the team wrote on X.
The Mariners' star catcher signed a bat that learn “Glenn, Thanks for being a superb man & good catch!”
The Huge Dumper additionally signed two baseballs for the fan's youngsters and took photographs in entrance of the dugout.
“The Mariners celebrated an amazing achievement of profitable their 1st division title since 2001. Cal Raleigh hit 2 house runs and my son was given his sixtieth house run ball as a random act of kindness,” Galan Ruelos stated.
“However when my son remembers this milestone, he'll cherish the second somebody was variety to him and gifted that ball.”
This week's collection helped the Mariners clinch a spot within the playoffs for the primary time since 2001 and made Raleigh, who's now the favourite to attain American League MVP, turn out to be the seventh participant in historical past to have 60 house runs in a single season.
Mutti-Driscoll's heartwarming gesture was very totally different from how a viral house run incident went down within the stands throughout a sport between the Phillies and Marlins at LoanDepot Park earlier this month.
An unnamed lady, who didn't seize the house run ball hit by Phillies outfielder Harrison Bader, was captured yelling at Drew Feltwell till he handed over the prized possession he caught for his son.
Feltwell stated he gave her the ball as a result of he needed to de-escalate the scenario.
Baseball followers identified that the offended Phillies fan within the viral video ought to have acted like Mutt-Driscoll.
“A sure Phillies fan, please take discover…” a social media consumer wrote on X.
“That's the sort of play that by no means reveals up on a field rating however wins hearts without end. Class act by the fan & Cal,” one other particular person added underneath the Mariners' photographs of Mutti-Driscoll and Raleigh.
