Fielding popups pays off for catcher.

 

I saw the video of this. It was pretty amazing.

Edited December 17, 200520 yr by YASNY

OMG. I couldn't imagine dropping one of my kids from a third story window. I am glad the baby survived.

The day that happened, I was listening to some Canadian program on NPR, and the interviewer phoned Mr. Vasquez. Instead of the usual 30 second sound clip, this woman talked to the guy for a least 10 minutes.

 

What struck me was that he said he hadn’t realized what he had done for a few hours afterwards. The interviewer seemed to think like I did that he had misunderstood her question, but he kept saying the same thing. He had reacted on instinct, had given the baby mouth-to-mouth after he caught it, but claimed that it all only sank in later when he was watching himself on a surveillance camera video played on TV news.

 

He was a pretty funny guy. When asked the standard, “do you feel like a hero?” he replied that yeah, he did - but totally not in a prideful way. He was happy to have been in the right place at the right time.

 

Regarding his catcher's technique, he basically said that he had skills!

 

And the mother asked him to become the baby’s godfather.