Might the social media world, incensed that an adult fan snagged a baseball obviously thrown to a little kid in the Wrigley Field crowd at Sunday’s Cubs-Cardinals baseball game, have gotten it wrong?

Chuck Mycoff says it absolutely did.

“The whole world is calling this guy the most evil guy in the world for being a ball thief,” said Mycoff, who says hewas the bystander (or by-sitter) with the folded arms and blue shirt next to the fan in question who grabbed the ball and handed it to the woman next to him in the damning video that has gone viral. “The fact of the matter is, he got balls for three kids.

“Television and social media read it the wrong way and made up a story. … It’s crazy. That guy helped that kid get a ball earlier and he got other kids balls.”

What people who saw the video saw was a man taking a ball that Chicago Cubs first-base coach Will Venable clearly tossed to the kid in the too-big cap, and that cannot look good.

Condemnation of the grown-up was swift, strong and unwavering, though neither he nor the child has been publicly identified.

Even as online outrage snowballed during the game, the Cubs sought a happy ending for the incident. It gave the youngster a ball signed by All-Star Javier Baez and posted a picture of him with two baseballs on its Twitter feed.

What the tweet did not explain is from where the second ball came.

Some assumed the Cubs gave him two. Mycoff and others seated nearby tried to set the record straight on Twitter, but they did not make much headway in countering the popular narrative.

“Here’s what it was,” Mycoff said by phone Monday. “In the first inning, somebody fouled a ball off the screen over the Cardinals dugout. The guy jumped up. I tried to catch it, too. He jumps up. It hits his hand and bounces right into where the tarp and the wall are, right in front of these people, where the kid is. So he calls to the dad: ‘Hey! Hey, grab that ball real quick for your boy!’ So the guy grabs it and gets ball for the boy.”

Three innings later came the incident with Venable’s toss into the stands everyone saw.

“It fell down under the seat, was down between my legs,” Mycoff said. “The guy picked it up and the 12 seconds of video looks like he just callously gave it to his wife and ignored the kid. What it doesn’t show is the mom had already said is: ‘He’s already got a ball. If we get any more, we’ll given them to somebody else.’ And the guy turned and handed it to his wife, who then in turn handed to a kid next to her that she didn’t know. They didn’t keep it.”

Three innings later, according to Mycoff, the out-of-towner from South Carolina got another ball and gave it to yet another youth.

“So he gave two balls to the kids next to them that they didn’t know, helped the kid in front of us get a ball and he’s being made out to be a villain,” Mycoff said. “He did the right thing. He gave the kids baseballs.”