CHICAGO – Some people get a second chance to accomplish the goal of a lifetime.

For lifelong Cubs fan Matt Hendren of Chicago, his disappointment was corrected in a span of two batters at Tuesday's Cubs-Padres game at Wrigley Field.

Starlin Castro's first-inning foul ball toward the first row of the upper deck caught Hendren in the hands but then bounced away, drawing boos from the crowd. Hendren didn't blame them.

"I've always booed those people in the past that dropped foul balls," said Hendren, who had never snagged a foul ball in all his years of coming to games.

With Alfonso Soriano at the plate moments later, Hendren got another chance and this time he leaned over the railing and squeezed tight, making a nice fundamental catch with two hands. The crowd let out a roar and Hendren spread his arms wide ignoring the pain of two foul balls to smack his palms.

"It seemed like fate that I got a second chance," he said. "On the first one I leaned over and my wife was grabbing the back of my pants because she knew I'm clumsy like that. And I dropped it. And it stung."

It stung in more ways than one. So how did the second one feel?

"It hurt even worse," Hendren said. "They came and offered some ice but I didn't need any. Tomorrow morning perhaps, but not today."