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Red Sox fan just misses catching Dustin Pedroia's home run, is utterly devastated

Every cloud has a silver lining, but that also means a lot of silver linings come with clouds. Case in point: Matt, a Red Sox fan from Rhode Island who was at Fenway Park on Wednesday night to see the Sox thump the A's, 13-3.
There's a lot of silver here! Matt saw his team win by 10 runs, one of which was a home run hit by Dustin Pedroia.
And now for the ominous, threatening storm cloud. That Pedroia homer? It came right to Matt, but after that, he wasn't so lucky:

Sox field reporter Gary Striewski stopped by later in the game to advise him on technique, and to remind him that the video of that moment will live forever:

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