The Houston Astros are up 3-2 in the 2017 World Series after an iconic Game 5 victory that featured the Astros coming back on three separate occasions on three game-tying home runs before walking off with a 13-12 win in extra innings. Despite how incredible Game 5 was, it took five hours and 17 minutes from start to finish and didn’t end until well past 1:00 AM ET, so if you’re one of the millions of baseball fans who missed one the greatest World Series games of all-time, don’t feel too bad about yourself. You aren’t alone.
In the ninth inning with the Dodgers down three, Yasiel Puig hit a two-run home run that just barely made it over the left-field wall. Astros fan Sarah Head caught the Puig homer, and, well, the footage will tell you what happens next better than I could.
Buddy’s wife caught a World Series home run ball and his friend STOLE IT AND THREW IT BACK! pic.twitter.com/Maaq8zj8Ia
— Will Brinson (@WillBrinson) October 30, 2017
Let’s all take a second to appreciate how hilarious that footage is. Okay, moving on.
The man who stole the Puig homer and tossed it back onto the field in that video was her brother-in-law, Kirk Head. Yahoo! got in touch with both members of the Head family after Game 5 to figure out what, exactly, went on here.
Kirk’s explanation to Yahoo was short and sweet; “F*ck the Dodgers.”
MLB.com got a few more details out of Kirk, who explained that he threw the ball back onto the field because “that’s where it needed to be” before explaining that he had predicted all day that a Dodgers home run ball was going to come in his direction and that he had planned on throwing it back before it even happened. “It’s going back regardless. Period.”
Sarah Head’s only regret was not being able to throw it back herself. “I would’ve liked to have had the opportunity to throw it back myself, but I understand that we needed to get it out quickly.” This the most baseball answer of all-time, but there you go.
Kirk Head stole the ball from his sister-in-law because that is what you do when your enemy hits a home run in your direction. Nobody hates anything as much as the Head family hates the Dodgers.
