Amazing Catch by Ball Girl
June 24, 2008 by Jason Bean
Filed under Kids & Family, Online Videos
Is this for real? It appears to be edited slightly. What do you think? If it is real this girl needs to be booked on Letterman so she can get some serious props and credit for that amazing catch!
Uncovered by Douglas Karr
Update: This was a Gatorade TV spot I believe
Nothing beats the look on the catcher’s face!
Sorry, this is not real. It was made for a commericial, I think. However a college did contact the team trying to recruit her.
From FOXnews.com
It would be an amazing catch for any baseball player — a bounding leap using the outfield wall as a springboard to snag a fly ball just into foul territory — but this catch was made by the ball girl.
Video of the catch at a baseball field in Fresno, Calif., has become an instant hit on YouTube, but was the catch real?
The video features actual footage of a Fresno Grizzlies game at Chukchansi Park, according to abc30.com, but the ball girl’s ‘unreal’ catch was just that — unreal.
It turns out the video is part of a new viral Web ad produced by Gatorade. The woman in the video doesn’t normally retrieve foul balls. She’s a stuntwoman who was hooked up to cables for the extra footage, filmed after the game in front of about a hundred fans and players who stayed late, according to abc30.com.
Thanks for sharing that information Kristina. That was great!