Dodgers fan is a dinger magnet

He’s become Mr. Hawk-tober.

Remember that fan who made the great catch on Justin Turner’s game-ending home run at Dodger Stadium on the weekend? Guess what? He did it again.

Keith Hupp, 54, came up with his second homer souvenir in the NL Championship Series, corralling the ball Cubs star Javier Baez hit into the bleachers at Wrigley Field on Wednesday.

“I’m still kind of a newbie at this ball-hawking stuff,” the retired Southern California policeman and Dodgers season ticket holder said.

Hupp has gotten 11 home run balls this year. But with a pair of playoff goodies, it’s hard to imagine anyone is having a better postseason than him.

“I’m old, I’ve got grey hair and a bum shoulder,” he said. “I do have a good glove.”

Hupp said the Turner catch was easy. He scrambled toward a railing in the centre-field stands and, with no one near him, leaned over to make the snag. Hupp presented the ball to Turner that night.

The play he made to get the Baez ball in Game 4 was more painful. The ball hit a back railing and caromed into a swarm of fans, beneath a TV camera stand.

“Everyone was about half my age, but I pounced. I’ll pounce if there are no kids around,” he said. “I grabbed the ball and tried to tuck it in, like a football,” he said.

Hupp plans to be at Game 5 Thursday.

“I only started doing this stuff a few years ago, after I retired,” he said.

“But I do know that catching a home run ball at the World Series, that would be the holy grail.”