Zack Hample caught a Cedric Mullins home run ball off Shohei Ohtani in Baltimore:
He’s getting ripped because there’s a little kid on the fence, standing next to his dad, presumably.
Here’s what I see:
It’s hard to tell if Hample knocked into the kid or not. In the broadcast replay, they’re kind of buried in the crowd, so you can’t see any better than the video we have above.
Honestly, if Hample did touch the kid, there doesn’t seem to be that much contact. He’s getting killed on Twitter for “jumping” on the kid and “pushing him against the fence,” but I think that’s slightly overblown here. He did make an effort to avoid clattering into him, and there wasn’t any kind of obvious reaction from the dad.
That being said, Zack Hample remains a humongous dork.