Matt Murphy

It's called the 999 Challenge, and it's been spreading online among baseball fans for years.

The idea?

Eat nine hot dogs and drink nine beers during the nine innings of a game.

Now the viral stunt is going official with some Major League ballparks offering special concession combos to match the challenge.

In some cases, the deal includes smaller hot dogs and beer flights to make it a little more doable.

The tradition started as an internet dare, but it's quickly turning into a ballpark craze, proving that for some fans, keeping score isn't the hard part.

Surviving the snack run is.

Matt Murphy, Fox News.

Happy to be here.

I was in Orange County, California.

And Orange County is a little bit different the way they handle their homicides than almost every other DA's office in the United States.

It's called a vertical prosecution concept.

And what that means is when you come into sexual assault, where I spent four years before I got the homicide or the homicide unit or certain other specialized units, you get assigned a patch of the county.

So I had Laguna Beach, Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, and Irvine.

And any murders that happen, you get the call in the middle of the night, you roll out your investigator, you're there at three in the morning signing warrants.

So you get in at the very, very beginning and then it's called vertical because you follow it all the way up through the system.

So on certain cases, you're there, you know, as the crime lab is processing the dead body and in others, you're there like in a missing person capacity trying to help police solve the mystery.

So it's a it's kind of a unique way of doing it.

I think every DA's office in America should do it that way.

You get to know the detectives, you get to know all the witnesses, you get a real feel for the case long before you ever stand up in front of a jury and try the thing.