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Did pouty kid who missed foul ball deserve replacement?



You'll be getting real baseball blogging here shortly from The Chronicle's Henry Schulman, but here on The Chronicle Sports Desk, we want to make sure you've caught a video making the rounds.

Brandon Belt's hitting might have been the on-field story of the game for the Giants on Tuesday night. But the off-field story of the game is getting even more exposure, on ESPN and beyond. And it raises some questions about fair play with foul balls.

That story, as caught by the cameras of Comcast SportsNet Bay Area, would be of the boy who missed out on a foul ball grabbed by a woman one row in front of him at AT&T Park. He went into pout mode, tightly folding him arms across his chest and screwing his eyebrows together.

Later, however, the Giants made it all better, by handing him a ball. The question is, did he deserve to get a handout from the Giants after his spoiled-brat reaction? Or do you think the woman who got the ball should have handed it over to the kid?

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