An Athletics ballboy showed more effort on a foul grounder than actual A’s players this season

To say the Athletics have had a rough season would be a massive understatement.

It’s not even mid-August, and Oakland has almost lost 70 games. If that weren’t enough, they’ve got football practices upstaging their games with actual stakes and animals of the night taking hold of their perennially empty stadium.

Hmm, if only their payroll was more than the single salary of other pro athletes!

On Sunday afternoon, as Oakland took on the fellow Bay Area resident Giants (-1.5), they got upstaged yet again. This time, by a plucky hometown ball boy who would simply not let a tricky foul ball fly past his zone:

I know it’s been a while, but we could use another Henry Rowengartner in the big leagues. This young man’s even got batting gloves in his back pocket. He’s clearly ready to play now. At this rate, could the downwardly mobile A’s really say no to a ball boy making terrific efforts like that?