The price of a free baseball

It is an ill-kept secret that your NewsCut host wants to catch a baseball (foul or fair; doesn’t matter) at a major league game before he expires on the planet.

Like this guy almost did in the upper deck at Target Field during the Home Run Derby the other night.

Jordan Jacobson stuck out his bare hand in his attempt to prove that youth is wasted on the young, and paid the price.

All he came up with was this:

Photo: Page Q Sports

“It was extremely painful at first, then went numb after about 15 minutes,” the Lakeville man told Page Q Sports. “It probably would have felt better if I would have gotten the ball.”