This Photo Of Red Sox Fans Trying To Catch A Home Run Is Amazing
BOSTON (CBS) – "The last supper of baseball photos." A "modern day Norman Rockwell painting."
That's how Twitter is describing this incredible photo from Fenway Park on Thursday night. Captured by Boston Herald photographer Matt Stone, it shows fans on top of the Green Monster all going for a Rafael Devers' home run in the first inning against the Chicago White Sox.
How did he get the shot? Stone, who was shooting the game from the photo pit by first base, explains that he always follows the ball "and I saw this one heading right for the Green Monster."
"What made this photo so different is I kept the frame really wide so you can see the kid with the ball appearing to be almost on top of his head and you can see the expressions on the faces of the other fans," Stone said.
Those expressions are priceless. And some wondered, what's with the guy in white facing the complete opposite direction?
What's the deal with that one guy looking the wrong way? Judas?
— Randall Barnes (@RBinJAX) August 4, 2017
Some people are already having Photoshop fun with two of the lungers.
They are essentially on a giant green screen. This could easily turn into the gift that keeps on giving with just a little photoshop magic. pic.twitter.com/vVGWSIrtd4
— Joe Prosperi (@prosperij) August 4, 2017
And you might miss it on first glance, but Twitter also loved the person on the bottom right who looked like they wanted no part of this.
LOL!! So everyone is just going to ignore the horrified dude hiding under the girls arm. ????
— Mr.Walker III ????⚡ (@WillieWalker3) August 4, 2017
The Red Sox tweeted video of the homer, but it's the picture that is truly worth a thousand words.
We think that @Rafael_Devers has the hang of this baseball thing. ???????? pic.twitter.com/sOK1oT552d
— Red Sox (@RedSox) August 4, 2017
If you're wondering how it ended, the ball takes a bounce before going into the glove of the young fan in the red hat.