To say the Athletics have had a rough season would be a massive understatement.
It’s not even mid-August, and Oakland has almost lost 70 games. If that weren’t enough, they’ve got football practices upstaging their games with actual stakes and animals of the night taking hold of their perennially empty stadium.
Hmm, if only their payroll was more than the single salary of other pro athletes!
On Sunday afternoon, as Oakland took on the fellow Bay Area resident Giants (-1.5), they got upstaged yet again. This time, by a plucky hometown ball boy who would simply not let a tricky foul ball fly past his zone:
Just another day in The Show 😤 pic.twitter.com/igNlE0TzDR
— NBC Sports Bay Area & CA (@NBCSAuthentic) August 7, 2022
A's ball boy is a GAMER pic.twitter.com/D3vifQkQla
— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) August 7, 2022
I know it’s been a while, but we could use another Henry Rowengartner in the big leagues. This young man’s even got batting gloves in his back pocket. He’s clearly ready to play now. At this rate, could the downwardly mobile A’s really say no to a ball boy making terrific efforts like that?
MLB fans loved seeing the A's ball boy's heart on the foul grounder
— DominosPiizza (@jusalilADHD) August 7, 2022
A’s best player😭 https://t.co/81nPumuFr6
— Patrick Kinman (@Patchman513) August 7, 2022
Dudes got the batting gloves in the back pocket. Ready for a call up at any moment
— JimmyNort (@ItzBigMoneyy) August 7, 2022
He’s gotta be. All that foul ball territory. What a guy
— * (@ihatethecap) August 7, 2022
Breaking: Ballboy traded to the Dodgers
— Jax (@MrGumby007) August 7, 2022
A's ownership trying to figure out how to get in LF for 10k/ year
— Typos are my thing (@GravyVampire305) August 7, 2022
ball boy plays better defense than the entire organization
— josie 🇵🇷 (mets era) (@joyboyjozu) August 7, 2022
yo @billybeanball sign the kid up for infield
— Aj Baalman (@AjBaalman) August 7, 2022
