Boston.com · Oct 20, 2021
Watch Red Sox fan make incredible catch on Rafael Devers’ broken bat grounder
A Red Sox fan made an incredible one-handed catch when Rafael Devers hit a broken bat grounder in the second inning of Game 5, snagging the shard of Devers’ bat that flew dangerously into the stands.
“How good is that?” FOX broadcaster Joe Buck enthused.
“That is amazing. What could have happened,” color announcer John Smoltz said.
Buck later called the man “the hero of the second inning.”
A Twitter user later tracked him down in the stands and discovered that his name is Matt Ferrera from Plymouth. Yahoo Sports’ Hannah Keyser discovered that Ferrera, 41, was in the stands with his aunt Carmen.
“I just saw the bat coming and I was like, ‘I got to grab that thing,'” Ferrera told Keyser.
