It was shaping up to be a fun day of baseball at Pittsburgh's PNC Park until local man Barry Perry risked it for the biscuit.
It was the bottom of the sixth inning when Perry, a 57-year-old at his first baseball game ever, saw a foul ball flying his way. Perry came prepared with a mitt he snatched from his neighbor's yard and acted on instinct as he saw the errant baseball flying towards him. The ball, however, was a bit low, and without thinking, Perry (who had never been much of an athlete or a brainiac) dove for it, completely disregarding the fact that he was sitting on the third and highest level of the ballpark.
Other fans attempted what first appeared to be an act of heroism by catching the falling Perry, but it soon became apparent that they were just trying to grab the ball for themselves. Determined to walk away with something free after coming up empty-handed in both the T-shirt and hot dog tosses, Perry would not be denied; he wriggled free of the other fans' grasps and subsequently plummeted to the field hundreds of feet below.
In a stroke of luck, Perry's fall was cushioned by Pittsburgh Pirates mascot, the Pirate Parrot.
The impact, however, has left both Perry and Parrot injured. While Perry is expected to make a full recovery, the Pirate Parrot may never fly again.
Looks like it didn't take three strikes for these two innocent civilians to be out of the ballgame.