As he walked by way of a concourse within the outfield at Globe Life Area, high-fiving with followers and surrounded by a sea of cameras, it was virtually as if Cory Youmans had hit an enormous dwelling run.
As a substitute, he hit the jackpot.
Youmans made the catch of a lifetime Tuesday night time, snagging the ball New York Yankees slugger Aaron Decide launched for his American League-record 62nd homer.
The historic memento got here crusing into the entrance row of part 31 in left subject, a drive Decide hit to guide off the second recreation of a day-night doubleheader towards the Texas Rangers. Youmans snared it on the fly.
Youmans, from Dallas, works within the monetary world and there isn’t any telling but what the ball might be price. With safety personnel round him as he took the ball to be authenticated, he was requested what he deliberate to do with the prize.
“Good query. I haven’t thought of it,” he mentioned.
After the Yankees misplaced 3-2, Decide mentioned he didn’t have possession of the home-run ball.
“I don’t know the place it’s at,” he mentioned. “We’ll see what occurs with that. It could be nice to get it again, however that’s a memento for a fan. He made an awesome catch on the market, they usually’ve bought each proper to it.”
Quickly after an area TV station posted a quick interview with Youmans in a walkway, Bri Amaranthus tweeted: “THIS IS MY HUSBAND.”
Amaranthus works in native media and is an alum of ABC’s “The Bachelor.”
Youmans was among the many crowd of 38,832, the most important to look at a baseball recreation on the 3-year-old ballpark.
Many followers got here clad in Yankees caps, T-shirts and pinstripe jerseys.
Some got here to look at Decide make historical past. Some got here only for the historical past. Some traveled a good distance.
The latter two classes included Jimmy Bennicaso of Norwalk, Connecticut.
“I’m a Met fan, truly,” Bennicaso confessed. “Cowboy and Met fan — a tough combo.”
Bennicaso was dwelling in Connecticut on Monday night time having watched Decide fail to homer within the first of 4 video games towards the Rangers in three days. He ran an thought previous his girlfriend — what if he headed to Texas to absorb Decide’s chase in individual?
“She mentioned, ‘Yeah, go for it,'” he mentioned.
Bennicaso caught a morning flight to Texas. Being self-employed in actual property investments helped, he mentioned.
Bennicaso stationed himself within the decrease deck of the right-field stands in hopes of grabbing an opposite-field homer, actually a risk given Decide’s spray chart.
As a substitute, Decide pulled a house run that broke the AL document set by Roger Maris in 1961.
Empty-handed, Bennicaso deliberate to return dwelling Wednesday morning.
“It was price it,” he mentioned. “I gave it my greatest shot.”