It was at a Phillies vs SF Giants game and her father gave he the ball right after he caught it (foul ball).
Did her dad get the ball back from stadium security?
I believe the ball landed in the lower deck and some other fan got it.
amigo | Sep 21, 2009
She threw the back at the field and the father was very upset but he tried not to put that look on his face.
Quizkhan | Sep 16, 2009
Yea the girl through it back at least she tried too
Matt! | Sep 16, 2009
I believe someone handed a ball to them after that inning after she threw it.
DenizenofEvil | Sep 16, 2009
The little girl threw the ball over the railing which is quite high above the seats below. I swear I saw the devil in her dad’s eye.
Powermong'r The Machine | Sep 16, 2009
We were playing the Nats, not the Giants. But anyway. The father caught the ball and gave it too his little girl, and she threw it back out on the field.
BAM Its Me! | Sep 16, 2009
Nothing, the little girl threw the ball in the lower deck and now someone else has it on their collection table.
But i believe they should of given her another ball after the game since they constantly showed it on air…
anujdutt87 | Sep 16, 2009
"She threw the back at the field and the father was very upset but he tried not to put that look on his face."
What I, and everyone else saw, was a loving Father who had a great big grin on his face, and gave his Daughter a loving hug.
Or were you just giving the way YOU would have reacted?
Read this:
By Mark Newman / MLB.com
09/16/09 3:51 PM ET
Steve Monforto has been coming to Phillies games since he was 3 years old, and after all that time, he finally caught his first foul ball on Tuesday night.
Then his 3-year-old daughter Emily threw it back.
It was more than just one of those many little moments in the course of a long baseball game when Jayson Werth fouled back a pitch during the bottom of the fifth inning in the Phillies’ 5-0 win against Washington at Citizens Bank Park. This moment was truly Beyond Baseball.
It was the real glory of the game right there in front of you, a father hugging his little girl to assure her that she did nothing wrong, a public rite of passage to which so many parents can relate. And that is why the highlight is one of the hottest videos on MLB.com right now, and why the whole family will be on NBC’s Today Show, where they will be presented with a surprise gift on Thursday morning.
"We have been inundated with calls from national and local media — everyone wants the story because it’s so heartwarming," said Bonnie Clark, the Phillies’ vice president of communications, after talking today to Monforto. "The family is a great family. I talked briefly to the dad. He’s been coming to Phillies games since he was 3, and now as a season-ticket holder, and he said he’s never caught a foul ball. He just happened to get these seats at the last minute, took up a friend on his offer, so he sat in a different location.
"The rest is history. I told him to embrace his 15 minutes."
Watch the video, and you can see Monforto reach over the rail in the first row of 300 level seats to make nice two-handed grab. Other fans in his section were cheering. After trading fist bumps with nearby fans, Monforto high-fived Emily, who was clad in pink T-shirt and Phillies cap, and handed the ball to her. It was the natural thing for any Dad to do, right?
The Monfortos were there from Laurel Springs, N.J., and sitting a seat to Steve’s right in the video is his wife, Kathleen, who has their other daughter, 15-month old Cecilia, on her lap. Kathleen’s surprise reaction is visible as Emily takes that ball and fires it over the rail, to somewhere down below. Where it landed, no one knows.
"See, when she first threw it over, you know, I kind of laughed and was like, ‘Oh my gosh, there it goes,’" Monforto told the local Fox TV affiliate. "But then the look on her face was that she may have done something wrong, so I wanted to let her know that … she didn’t do anything wrong."
The family was sitting near the suites of Phillies executives. Monforto said he was pleased when the club promptly delivered him a replacement ball, and this is how Clark described the scene as the Phillies went about that:
"After Emily threw the ball down, Mike Stiles [Philles senior VP of operations/administration), who sits in the executive box where our TV is, could see it happen. Mike went out to deliver a ball to her -- not the ball, but a ball -- and on his way back from their seats he was first met by Scott Palmer, who's our director of public affairs. Scott was en route to deliver one as well, and Mike indicated to him that he had already taken care of it. Then Mike was met by [general manager] Ruben Amaro, who was on his way to do the same thing.
"Everyone had the same mindset," said Clark. "We all wanted to do the same thing. Great minds think alike."
Clark said "everybody who’s a parent can relate. You’ve been in that situation where a kid did something so innocent, you don’t want to reprimand them. She thought she might have done something wrong, and he quickly reassured her that she didn’t do anything wrong. Any parent can relate to the whole scenario."
Clark said Kathleen’s reaction was "that she was just concerned that whoever’s below them might have gotten hit. She was like, ‘Did someone get hit by the ball?’"
For the record: Don’t throw foul balls back.
But this was an innocent situation that people can’t get enough of.
Producers at the Today Show contacted the Phillies, and the family was on its way to New York for their appearance on Thursday morning’s show. Clark said the family will be presented with a surprise gift there, so expect to see it replayed again to that giant audience.
"That was a lucky catch, that I didn’t drop that," Monforto said.
He has waited a long time to make a catch like that.
He had no idea what it would turn into.
Bob
Bob | Sep 16, 2009
it was an innocent child that threw the ball back her dad had dad good laugh about it .. you can’t get mad a child for making a mistake at all
nas88car 300 grt race #11 MM #1! | Sep 16, 2009
i could tell the Father was pissed, but it was a little girl
Bucc (Version 2.0) | Sep 16, 2009
There was a Mets scout at the game and after he saw the girl throw the ball he immediately offered her a contract.
Utter Chaos | Sep 16, 2009
:D:D