A fan flashed some nice glovework to corral a foul ball at Friday night's Diamondbacks-Braves game in Atlanta -- even earning props from the outfielder he fended off while making the catch.
Arizona's Kole Calhoun charged hard toward the wall along the first-base line in a bid to haul in a popup off the bat of Atlanta's Austin Riley in the fourth inning.
The lazy fly ball came down just a few feet into the stands, where a focused young fan seated in the first row absorbed a bump from Calhoun but hung on to make the catch with little problem.
The youngster flashed a wide grin, having earned himself a souvenir as well as preserved an at-bat for a Braves hitter. With the ball landing well over the wall, the fan by rule didn't have to yield to the fielder. And he sure didn't!
Calhoun was a good sport about it and seemingly impressed, exchanging a fist bump with the sure-handed fan as a gesture of goodwill.
The play harkened back to the countless such episodes of fielders and fans competing for fly balls, most famously the Jeffrey Maier and Steve Bartman plays.
Maier's iconic grab aided a questionable home run off the bat of Derek Jeter at Yankee Stadium in the 1996 playoffs, while Bartman potentially impeded Cubs outfielder Moises Alou from making a catch at Wrigley Field in the 2003 postseason, moments before the Cubs went on to squander a late lead.
The stakes were much lower on Friday, though, and the outcome a sweet moment that was widely shared on social media.