Reds' TJ Friedl on Mookie Betts getting his first hit/HR ball from fan: 'Just chills honestly'

An extremely grateful TJ Friedl thanks Mookie Betts for going out of his way to get his first hit/HR ball from a fan in the stands.

[@WriterusAeternus]

That’s cool his first hit was a HR and it has this amazing Mookie Betts backstory with it.

[@derrickrr5516]

Or would it be a forward story? 🤔

[@BangTaoBeach]

Mookie Betts is a class act. Congrats to TJ Friedl I hope you hit a lot more homeruns. But not against our boys in blue :) Go Dodgers!

[@donaldindividual-1]

Some players are bigger than the sports they play, Mookie is a real life super hero!

[@ericrerrud1145]

Too far

[@ericrerrud1145]

@Super Cal he grabbed a baseball that was already gonna be confiscated by security. Stop acting like he saved a drowning baby. Gain some perspective in life.

[@ericrerrud1145]

@Super Cal perspective, find it

[@donaldindividual-1]

Eric I watched a football game where Eagles fans booed Santa Clause, you were in that crowd!

[@hugoa.4343]

You people forget he cheated the Dodgers from a world series knowing that the redsox where cheating and now he doesn't want Bauer back on the team what a hypocrite that guy

[@johnclevesjr6869]

VERY classy move on Mookie's part! he didn't have to do it, but it shows how much he respects the game. wtg, Mookie! #TRADITION! #respect!🤜🤛

[@donaldindividual-1]

Class isn’t something you can buy for any amount. Mookie is a class act. Future hall of famer for sure and sportsman of the year.

[@hugoa.4343]

What about when he was cheating with the redsox was that a class act too

[@alan30189]

Yes classy, but players do this all the time. I see it done many times in a year.

[@rubygreta1]

I'm sure Mookie treasures his first home run ball. He knows the feeling.

[@briananderson1246]

@@hugoa.4343 when it comes to competing sports are ALL about deception so it's right in line with that

[@mysterydpt4663]

What a great chain reaction of humanity at its finest . Rookie gets his first hr, mookie trades reds fan his bat for hr ball and reds fan gives mookies bat to young betts fan

[@LeviBulger]

Why does everyone keep saying that guy gave the bat to the kid? He didn't. He just let the kid and his dad get a picture with it. The guy that caught the HR ball kept the bat. It was on twitter earlier showing the guy who caught the HR walking out with the bat. He only let the kid and his dad get a picture with it.

[@derrickrr5516]

I can see where people are getting confused but yes, he kept the bat. I would’ve too. 😁😄 Sorry kid. I was a kid once too. Now if it was a ball??? I have three of those from games. I could cough up the next one. 😉

[@everybodysMaster1]

No one going to mention how the dude that received the mookie autographed bat, gave it to a kid!? That on its own is mind blowing respect. It was a mookie autographed bat!!!

[@LeviBulger]

No he didn't. The guy let that kid's dad get a picture with his son holding the bat, but they gave the bat back to the guy who caught the HR ball.

[@pradaboi92]

@@LeviBulger bingo. Lmao

[@postedinthecut1565]

He let the kid hold it to take a picture. Nobody gave the kid shit.

[@everybodysMaster1]

@@LeviBulger I was bamboozled. I wouldn't give away a mookie signed bat either though.

[@barbarak1744]

Congrats to you…….We 💙 our Mookie!

[@billbird2969]

During the 2018 playoffs in Boston, after a game Mookie on his way home stopped and bought a large amount of pizzas and delivers them to a homeless camp area around Boston Common. The man was nothing but pure class while he was in Boston

[@pitsnpistols1005]

I don’t think it’ll take more than a sincere thanks! Mookie seems like a real good, down to earth guy who loves and respects the game! Maybe an autograph ball I’m sure he’d be happy with incase you got 40-50 and get Rookie of the year next season, or take him out to a good Vegan restaurant around Cincinnati! I know he likes food and is vegan.

[@natetuohy2615]

Ew vegan just lost respect for mookie

[@brooks-e8249]

Its great to know that it means this much to fans too. It just proves that baseball fans are the best sports fans there are. They take the time to understand the nuance of the game and they take the time to recognize that when it is all said and done there are things about this game that are more important and are going to be remembered longer than who won the NL West division in 2021.

[@thesnapper84]

I think it’s because there’s a certain romanticism that goes with baseball that you just don’t get with other sports…. Every ball player has fantasized and played that scenario in their mind of being in a World Series game 7, bottom of the 9th, 2 outs, bases loaded, down 3 and YOUR standing at the plate and somehow you catch lightning ⚡️⚾️⚡️⚾️⚡️⚾️⚡️⚾️⚡️⚾️

[@brooks-e8249]

@@thesnapper84 1000%!!! could not agree with you more, well said!

[@daninspiration4064]

That alone mookie deserves MVP!

[@minato808]

He should be thanking the fan. If this guy ends up becoming a star player that ball is gonna be worth thousands.

[@omidaval7494]

At the end of each day or night Players should be united together & for Mookie to do that for someone who he probably has never met is just incredible. I know Covid is thing & you can't really have that much communication w/Fans but I wish there were more of those Fan | Player Interactions/Exchanges would change Life | Sports(MLB).

[@AngelRodriguezFritoLay]

Class act from an all-timer

[@rickpiff3097]

Mookie Betts is a great guy and he also is one of the best hitters in mlb!

[@johnwarner9474]

That's a wonderful act from a great athlete and human being.

[@hagamapama]

As a Boston Red Sox fan, this is the Mookie we knew. Great to know that LA hasn't changed him much

[@leifjohnson617]

Don't believe the Republican bullshit about the people of California in general and of the people of Los Angeles, in particular. I grew up in a predominantly Jewish community in Culver City, California and EVERYONE got along very well. Californians are NOT perfect but as a group I think that they are wonderful people.

[@BangTaoBeach]

@@leifjohnson617 It's not the people of California it's the politician's and people like you that brought up a political party. You are a total D-Bag.

[@Mr1stcat]

@@BangTaoBeach but he's right tho

[@Mr1stcat]

Mookie is a grown man L.A. doesn't "change" you, adults chose who they want to be in life, what you're spewing is the same nonsense a high schooler would 😒

[@Voltzy70]

@@leifjohnson617 Aren't you special, believing in Political parties and not realizing they are all corrupt and beholden to the Lobbyists through legal bribery just shows your lack of intelligence. Tune into CNN, FOX, MSNBC, ABC, CBS or the channel of your choice for your daily dose of PROPAGANDA, LIES and MISINFORMATION because they thrive off of people like you.

[@cdh79]

That's what sports should be all about.. rivalry during the game when it counts, but camaraderie overall. Well done Mookie!

[@jerseyboy84]

Sportsmanship at its finest. All around. Really cool

[@rick_fortune]

Well played by all. Good luck with the career TJ and quality act by Mookie Betts.

[@h2ofield]

Just another reason why I LOVE this game!

[@TheBatugan77]

Class by the Cincy fan AND Mookie. And seeing the little kid with the Betts t-shirt is awesome!

[@jonmejia9809]

That's my boy... Hell yeah Mookie.... LA love good vibes from a true champ 💙

[@mikefranks6854]

My coach always said remember baseball is the only game you go to work in a button up, top class Mook.

[@ichthus2188]

Extremely classy of Mookie.

[@marksaurbier7321]

Mookie always was a class act. Pure human being. We all can learn from this man

[@kinglobo80]

Sportsmanship at its finest

[@davew6]

Mookie is the man, loved when he was on the sox. Stand up guy

How to make friends and influence people; The Mookie Betts Story. We need more people like Mookie

[@mikehutton3187]

That’s good stuff right there.

[@tweakintrax6097]

Was Also A Great Shot TJ Congratulations

[@unfocusedsenior8002]

Much respect to Mookie on this one!

[@Pigsawjanet]

I learned the other day that Mookie is a great bowler too.

[@derrickrr5516]

One of those rare feel-good-about-humans moment. Mookie for the win!

[@makingmoney8470]

Mookie is a class act

[@ruthless12street]

Is anybody going to acknowledge how great the fans catch was?

[@redhoode.n.y.6314]

Mookie is a class act for that move..

[@day1avsfan907]

That's wild, I was never a Betts man. Great player, just was never a huge fan, I am now tho. What a great thing to do for an opposing player

[@kirk4086]

Class act...all the way!

[@WootTootZoot]

Class act by Mookie, good luck to TJ in the rest of his career. Go Dodgers.

[@pokerface8242]

Mookie Betts is a great ballplayer but an even greater human being.

[@jonrowell5958]

Classiest Guy In MLB. Mookie Betts.

[@AdamEMick]

Class act

[@ME-qr2kq]

A major tip of the Dodger cap to the Reds fan for giving it to the little Mookie fan.

[@lolafitzgerald6881]

Boston still loves Mookie!

[@dfilipino4443]

That’s great

[@Jcorde2000]

First class nothing else to say.

[@davidpyles9572]

MLB needs more Betts and less Machodos

[@TheBatugan77]

Heh heh heh heh... HEH HEH HEH HEH! CORRECT!

[@rtrr-vc9kg]

Yes!

[@williambaker6575]

Mookies spokesmanship is MVP caliber.

[@LambeauLeeeper]

First class.

[@southali]

Honor for his opponents.

[@quaoar213]

The world needs more bats and signatures.

[@tweakintrax6097]

Mookie Mookie Mookie !

[@Bvinent626]

Watch Mookie bowl. He's a beast.

[@burnout_2017]

Classy move.....a now a mookie fan

[@djcrawford7965]

Mookie is one of the good ones no doubt

[@shawngregory1429]

Mooks the man.

[@carlosraya669]

Class Act way to go Mookie GO DODGERS!!

[@thesnapper84]

Cool beans

[@lucawildcrazy]

I love the situation with betts but freidl first hit was a homerun but it is getting overlooked by mookie betts.But mookie is so nice and he has gained my respect forever

[@iannOhara]

not overlooked at all. just a class act by a great ball player

[@jessepacheco7471]

Mookie betts class act, Go Dodgers

[@jlopez65]

TJ reminds me of a hybrid version of Pete Rose and Joe Morgan! I hope he becomes a future Reds star!

[@RM-ed1if]

How big would it be if Friedl could lockdown center field? Please let it happen.

[@LarryChiang]

What’s counterintuitive is that we want our fan base to own our first HR ball My house has the biggest ball sack

[@davidclaycomb4287]

Ok......great

[@alandennis9753]

Title wording is terribly confusing for anyone that did not see the event. Please repair🖖🏽

[@wrengoode5470]

ayyyy thats my cousin tj🤪

[@Mikey-br8xw]

Sure is real easy to root for a guy like mookie. Go Dodgers

[@TheKaffeeKlatsch]

“Base--ball”

[@zachariahyager3115]

Is no one going to talk about how that fan that gave the ball back then gave the signed bat to a kid in Betts jersey?

[@justme516z]

He didn't the father asked if they could take a picture with the bat .. the fan kept the bat that Betts gave him

[@zachariahyager3115]

@@justme516z Ah I see. Thanks

[@ceebee8042]

You don’t have to thank Mookie. Mookie knows.

[@alan30189]

Players do this all the time. This isn’t something that’s rare.

[@KalosPVP]

Mookie is missed in Boston.

[@djCOLLY01]

This only happens in MLB!

[@castrejon321]

Class act Mookie. It's still fuck the Dodgers though!!!

[@monkeyearcheese420]

Just learn and be a similar pro.

[@grandpaed6132]

It’s a nice touch but he gets bats for free.

[@thatboy3930]

Mookie is too nice to be in a Dodgers uniform

[@wereallscrewed9714]

All these betas in the comments 😂😂🤣

[@Elpatron1966]

I don’t like this teams being all friends n shit…

[@InQuickWeTrust]

Dookie 💩

[@hugoa.4343]

It's all for the cameras I'm a dodgers fan I rather have Bauer back on the team and get rid of mookie

[@ontourwtk]

Mookie don't rehearse that's who he is..Honors The Tradition of baseball