{"id":748729,"date":"2013-04-29T11:32:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T15:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=227203"},"modified":"2013-04-29T11:32:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T15:32:01","slug":"instagram-selfie-catches-reporters-near-miss-with-flying-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/748729","title":{"rendered":"Instagram Selfie Catches Reporter\u2019s Near Miss with Flying Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about perfect timing. And incredible luck.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Rays reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KNashSports\">Kelly Nash<\/a> almost got plunked in the back of the head with a baseball this past weekend. And the near miss was captured by a once-in-a-lifetime selfie and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/YnywPVl8jP\/\">posted to Instagram<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>As the story goes, Nash was in Boston working on a feature on the Tampa Bay Rays. According to Nash, she wanted to snap a photo atop the Green Monster in Fenway Park because her whole family is from Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew they would be so excited to see me working at Fenway Park, and when I went to text them the picture I noticed the baseball by my head!&#8221; Nash told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxsportsflorida.com\/blog\/bonus-play\/story\/Rays-reporter-discovers-close-call-while?blockID=897167&#038;feedID=3798\">Fox Sports Florida<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Most dangerous selfie ever. That happened. @ Fenway Park <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/Mg9IQOoFvp\" title=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/YnywPVl8jP\/\">instagram.com\/p\/YnywPVl8jP\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kelly Nash (@KNashSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KNashSports\/status\/328245938680393729\">April 27, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I laughed pretty hard when I saw such a surreal picture that I had no idea I took. I thought, you have got to be kidding me, maybe there ARE really angels in the outfield. I actually brought the movie with me on the trip and had it in my bag at the game.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Nash says that her producer found the ball and gave it to her, so at least she has some hard evidence of her near-serious injury experience. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Think the Angels in the Outfield saved me because I brought their DVD with me on the trip? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/%23ThoughtSo\">#ThoughtSo<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/Drhxn4sOJq\" title=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/YoGDoil8mc\/\">instagram.com\/p\/YoGDoil8mc\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kelly Nash (@KNashSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KNashSports\/status\/328288563420594176\">April 27, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Just add this to the growing list of reasons that self-shots are rarely ever a good idea. <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.ientry.com\/sites\/webpronews\/article_pics\/nearmissbaseball111.png?resize=608%2C607\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"608\" height=\"607\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=FKLN82PIWCw:QOXyCgLgTHA:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=FKLN82PIWCw:QOXyCgLgTHA:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=FKLN82PIWCw:QOXyCgLgTHA:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=FKLN82PIWCw:QOXyCgLgTHA:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=FKLN82PIWCw:QOXyCgLgTHA:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=FKLN82PIWCw:QOXyCgLgTHA:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=FKLN82PIWCw:QOXyCgLgTHA:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=FKLN82PIWCw:QOXyCgLgTHA:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=FKLN82PIWCw:QOXyCgLgTHA:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/FKLN82PIWCw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about perfect timing. And incredible luck. Tampa Bay Rays reporter Kelly Nash almost got plunked in the back of the head with a baseball this past weekend. And the near miss was captured by a once-in-a-lifetime selfie and posted to Instagram. As the story goes, Nash was in Boston working on a feature on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-38Mh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}