Baseball fan's expression changes from excitement to shame when he realizes he scooped up a ball in play

I think ‘man’ is poor/inflammatory word choice. Might be worth considering the impact vs your intent. How about ‘adult’? Like an adult.

I don’t mean to pick or suggest, only note that in what i’ve quoted of you above, I want ‘kudos’ to be the anchor word, and ‘like a man’ turns out to be more attention grabbing. Subjectively speaking of course.