FAMILY EJECTED FROM GAME AFTER THROWING HOME RUN BALL BACK ONTO FIELD

In Denver, Colorado at Tuesday’s Colorado Rockies game against the San Francisco Giants, a man along with his wife and two stepsons were ejected from the stadium after he caught a home run ball and tossed it back onto the field. Apparently, there’s a rule that says “At no time should a foul or home run ball be thrown back on the field. Violators will be subject to ejection.” Brandon Sanchez had never heard of that rule. In the sixth inning, the Giants hit a home run, which landed in Sanchez’s hands. His stepsons were excited, but Sanchez threw the ball back because it was San Francisco’s home run and he wanted a Rockies home run ball. Moments later, staff and security approached Sanchez, telling him he and his family had to leave. Sanchez was upset because it was the boys’ first game. The boys, 7 and 6, were shaking and crying.
* Hey! There’s no crying in baseball!
* Rules are rules, kids.
* Whatever happened to “Three strikes, you’re out”?
* Brandon Sanchez never heard of the rule, and stadium management never heard of “public relations disasters.”
* And it doesn’t help that stadium security wear Gestapo uniforms.
* Any more questions on why baseball seems out of step with the times?
* The Colorado Rockies aren’t doing that great, so if you’re waiting for them to hit a home run, you could be there a while.
* Don’t you hate those authoritarian guidelines that start out, “At no time…”? So you’re ruling on this for all eternity?
* And the next sentence is always something like, “Violators will be subject to ejection.” Hey, before they were violators, they were paying baseball fans.
* PHONE TOPIC: Who’s being the jerk here – dad or the Rockies?