Karen Driben’s a big Phillies fan, but she missed the game on TV last night, even though her husband, Ian, was there.
When he came home, he insisted she watch the highlights, even though the Phillies lost. There, in the fourth inning, outfielder Jayson Werth hits a foul ball and a fan nonchalantly makes a one-handed grab – without spilling any of the soda and fries off the tray he was carrying to his seat.
The man smoothly holds the ball up for the crowd to see.
“Was that you?” she said.
“I took the ball out of my pocket and tossed it over to her. She thought that was really cool,” said Ian, a veterinarian at the Moorestown animal hospital run by his father, Charles, since the 1960s.
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