17-Year-Old Reed Weiner Embraces Home Run Derby Boos After Missed Catch Goes Viral
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Updated · The Philadelphia Inquirer · Jul 15
17-Year-Old Reed Weiner Embraces Home Run Derby Boos After Missed Catch Goes Viral
3 articles · Updated · The Philadelphia Inquirer · Jul 15
Summary
Reed Weiner, 17, said Philadelphia fans booing him after a missed Home Run Derby catch felt like “an honor,” not an insult.
Monday’s viral moment came when Weiner, shagging balls in left-center at Citizens Bank Park, misread Jordan Walker’s first-round pop-up, lost it in the lights and watched it carry past his glove.
Within 20 minutes, clips of the miss spread across Jomboy, Barstool, Bleacher Report and House of Highlights, turning the Lower Merion teenager into an online talking point about Philly fans.
Weiner said it was the only ball he missed all night and argued the reaction fit Philadelphia sports culture because he and his friend were booing non-Phillies participants from the field as well.
The recent Harriton High graduate said the boos made the night more memorable, adding that fans age 10 and up are fair game for that kind of treatment.