​Easy there, trigger fingers. Not every ball that comes within reaching distance is necessarily yours to interfere with.





Fans have an obligation to be fully present, engaged in the moment of the game, and should be good about picking and choosing their spots to make absolute fools of themselves.





This fan just simply chose a very bad time to do so.





When a ball came rocketing towards one ​Astros fan's direction, his eyes lit up with excitement. "This is my chance to finally take home a souvenir foul ball!"

Ol buddy sleeping on the couch tonight pic.twitter.com/JfpIq18OXC — 12up (@12upSport) May 19, 2018

In the end, the only problems were: one, the ball was actually fair, and two, he didn't even catch it. If you top that off with the fact that he then immediately got reamed out on national television by the woman sitting next to him, then well, that pretty much makes this one of the worst baseball blunders of the year.





Thankfully, this ​didn't get in the way of the Astros still securing the win.

Astros beat the Indians, 4-1, to improve to 29-17. They have won 8 of their last 10 games. — Brian McTaggart (@brianmctaggart) May 19, 2018

This play by the fan ended up being so bad that the actual Astros team likely deserved to register an error on this guy's behalf. All you can do now is shake your head and hope he's learned a valuable lesson from all of this.



