Fenway Park Flying Pizza Incident
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Mister Biggs | Wednesday, April 18, 2007 |
Man goes for foul ball.
Man misses foul ball.
Man spills beer.
Man gets hit by pizza.
PIZZA?! Yes a pizza.
Drew lofted a foul toward Box 82, which juts into left field foul territory. Sole stretched for the ball as the Angels’ Garret Anderson reached the stands. They collided, spilling beer everywhere, and the ball bounced away.
As if the slo-mo spill and requisite grimacing weren’t enough, a large slice of cheese pizza then arced perfectly through the crowd, hitting Sole’s shoulder and face. Once he realized what hit him, he went ballistic while girlfriend Anya Ho, 29, tried to wipe off his face.
A few rows away, Madore and buddy Danny Kelly beamed. It turns out Sole had given them grief about having a large pizza in the stands just moments before the at-bat. He wanted to know where they got it.
“He turned around and said something like, ‘Your mother,’ ” Sole said.
“No,” interjected Ho. “He said, ‘The pizzeria.’ ”
Either way, all parties were annoyed.
“They had been giving us (expletive) about it,” Madore said. “Next thing I know, there’s a fly ball to left field and it goes foul and my buddy says, ‘You want some pizza now?’ And he hits him right in the face. Hey, the guy wasn’t paying attention. When you’re in the stands you’ve got to be ready for anything – a foul ball, a flying slice of pizza, everything.”
Kelly, sporting a Patriots [team stats] jacket, was tossed.
“It was just a stupid thing,” he said. “It’s not something to be proud of. It was just stupidity all around.”
Madore and Sole began jawing – “He has a little bit of a temper,” Ho said – and Madore got the boot, as well.
By the time the eighth inning rolled around, however, most involved couldn’t stop laughing. Sole fielded nonstop calls from friends telling him he was on NESN, which named him “Fan of the Game.” He wondered if he could meet NESN’s Tina Cervasio.
Of course you can watch the NESN broadcast here and catch the play-by-play commentary, which is pretty hilarious.
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