NEW YORK (AP) a' Zack Hample leads the majors in hogging home run balls. The 35-year-old New Yorker found Didi Gregorius' first major group homer if the Arizona Diamondbacks rookie covered a message in to the third row of right-field seats in the third inning Thursday evening at Yankee Stadium. He then found an attaching travel by Francisco Cervelli of the Yankees in the first line of left-field stands in the ninth. "It is a little bit of luck, certainly. I move all over the place constantly," Hample explained after Arizona's 6-2 victory over New York in 12 innings. "People do not spot the seven games I've get a home run." and did visited in 2013 Composer of the 1999 guide "How to Snag Major League Baseballs," Hample is having a, the Cal Ripken Jr. of his activity. Hample said he is come from 880 sequential games with at least one ball, a talent dating to September 1993 at old Yankee Stadium. He captured two homers in one single game for the second time after accomplishing the feat at Baltimore's Camden Yards on May 13, 2010, drives to right in successive innings by Seattle's Michael Saunders and the Orioles' Corey Patterson. Hample caught Barry Bonds' 724th home work, at San Diego off Chan Ho Park on Aug. 12, 2006. He found the very first major league home runs by Mike Nickeas (April 21, 2011) and Mike Trout (July 24, 2011) and the last home run hit by the New York Mets at Shea Stadium (Carlos Beltran on Sept. 28, 2008). By Hample's count, he is develop 29 home run balls: 24 off the bat and five tossed to him after landing in bullpens and other places. He claimed he'd have got Martin Prado's sixth-inning homer to left had he perhaps not been speaking with a Diamondbacks tv reporter at that time. "I really just pass by intuition. I actually do not position differently for different hitters," he said. "I had a buddy sitting out in right field tonight who called me early in the game and said, 'We're over here. Say hello.' I deliberately waited for Gregorius' first at-bat. I knew he had no house runs." A graduate of Guilford College in North Carolina, Hample performs at Argosy Book Store, that was established by his grandmother near Bloomingdales on Manhattan's East Side. He does some baseball writing and has turned ball-hawking into a business: He accompanies supporters to guarantees and games each a ball will be got by them. Hample has a web site to monitor his mission, is quick to tweet pictures of herself with each newly found ball and stores his household run records on his phone. "I am a dork, although not a large enough dork that I have all of it memorized," he explained. Because he's been a Heath Bell fan since 2004 even though he lives in Manhattan, in a, one-bedroom apartment, Hample was wearing a Diamondbacks top. "Zack's crazy. I know Zack from when I was a novice with the Mets," the Arizona reliever said. "He probably was a fan when I was a, a fan when I was a Marlin." Hample, who offered Gregorius back his home run ball in exchange for an autographed baseball, has been to Yankee Stadium, Citi Field and Fenway Park this time and plans on going to all or any 30 key league parks this year. He is being sponsored by BIGS sunflower seeds, which may offer up to $15,000 to Pitch In For Baseball, which collects and redistributes softball and baseball gear to people in needy areas. It will contribute $500 for every single arena where he gets a ball a' he's to grab it on his own; he can not recognize balls acquired by other fans. So far he is 3 for 3, and he hopes to offer BIGS a set of 30 balls to sell, one from each ballpark. Hample said he is caught 153 horrible balls during games and gotten 6,516 a' "that's the exact number" a' baseballs from major league ballparks, primarily during batting practice. He's found more balls than many big leaguers within their whole careers. More baseballs have been given away by "i than I can count," he explained. Online: http://www.zackhample.com/
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