BOSTON — NHL participant Garnet Hathaway had simply settled into his seat in a luxurious field at the back of house plate, on the point of revel in a Sunday evening sport at Fenway Terrain between the Pink Sox and St. Louis Cardinals, when a bad ball off the bat of Boston’s Justin Turner got here crusing again at him within the first inning.

So, what did the 31-year-old ahead do? He stood up, reached with each arms and made the blank seize.

Hathaway performed for the Boston Bruins this season next being received from the Washington Capitals on the industry time limit. He’s lately a distant agent.

“You never think it’s going to happen and then it happens,” he mentioned, smiling. “I’ve been here for a few hours already. It’s my son’s birthday. We got to bring him around the stadium. It was amazing.”

Hathaway mentioned he had threat about foul balls simply as the sport began.

“One of the concession guys said: ‘Heads up. If it’s a righty batter, they come quick, they come often. Pay attention,”’ Hathaway said. “I had simply sat ill, and my spouse took the children house. The nearest factor you recognize, it’s already going down. It was once great to get a heads-up.”

Has he caught one before?

“I’ve, in truth, years again at Yankee Stadium, Pink Sox-Yankees,” Hathaway said. “That was once most certainly most effective about 5, six years in the past.”

What does he plan to do with this ball?

“It’s taking to my son. He’s turning 2 these days,” Hathaway said of his son, Luke.

And will he want it signed by Turner?

“I would really like that,” he said. “Confidently, I’ve a couple of connections someplace. That may be truly particular.”

The Bruins prepared an NHL file for issues (135) and victories (65) this season, however they have been disillusioned in seven video games by way of the Florida Panthers within the opening spherical of the playoffs.