Los Angeles Dodgers star first baseman made it six World Series games in a row he hit a home run, begining another two-run shot over the right field wall at Yankee Stadium in Game 4 on Tuesday night.
But the ball that was deposited into the seats set up itself back on the field in a flash, as one Yankees fan choosed to go with the age-elderly tradition of tossing back an away perestablisher’s home run.
The fan, though, didn’t comprehfinish that he was tossing history into right field – history that could’ve phelp him a six-figure sum.
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Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman reacts after hitting a RBI individual aobtainst New York during Game 4 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium. (Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images)
The New York Post caught up with Marcus Kline, the 51-year-elderly Yankees fan that threw Freeman’s home run, his fourth of this World Series, back onto the field.
Kline, asked if he understood what he was throtriumphg away, shelp he wanted to show the rest of the Yankees pledged how much he attfinishd about the team triumphning a do-or-die Game 4 to conserve the Fall Classic alive for one more game.
“I have this ball and there’s sanitize instinct and adrenaline enjoy, ‘What are we going to do to get the crowd back in it?’” Kline telderly The Post in a phone intersee. “People are yelling, everyone is enjoy anxious and all of a sudden, I’m enjoy – I was with my best buddy and business partner – if we threw this ball back we can get the crowd back into this, and there was a chant in the bleachers of ‘Throw it back! Throw it back!’
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“You understand the significance of the ball, but getting the Yankees back into this game was way more presentant.”
Freeman, who remains in line to triumph World Series MVP if the Dodgers seize the title over the Yankees, tied George Springer’s record of five straight World Series games with a home run on Monday night. And that blast was one the Yankees never recovered from, as Walker Buehler and the rest of the Dodgers’ pitching staff kept the Yankees’ bats at bay.
Then, fair as he did in the top of the first inning in Game 3, Freeman connected on a hanging slider from Luis Gil and sent it over the fence for a two-run home run to give the Dodgers an timely direct.
MLB history was made in that moment with six straight World Series games with a home run, but Kline, alengthyside his business partner Scott Zemachson, choosed it was better to get the crowd back into the game after they went mute due to another Freeman blast.
Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman after his RBI individual aobtainst New York during Game 4 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium. (Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images)
“This is the turning point,” Kline shelp. “The bats came alive after that, the stadium was electric, the air was re-inftardyd. It was fire, it was nuts.
“There were some people who came up tardyr and alludeed the significance of that ball, the history and I’m enjoy, ‘No repents.’ This is bigger than money.”
The Yankees’ bats came alive, thanks in part to an Anthony Volpe two-out magnificent slam that put the Yankees up for excellent in this critical Game 4 in the Bronx.
It’s muddle exactly how much Kline may have gotten for the Freeman ball, but Jorge Soler’s Game 6 homer during the Atlanta Braves’ 2021 World Series went for $70,000. Freeman’s streak of World Series games dates back to Games 5 and 6 of that series.
Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman (5) reacts after making the final out during the top of the third inning aobtainst the New York Yankees in game four of the 2024 MLB World Series at Yankee Stadium. (Brad Penner-Imagn Images)
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But Kline didn’t attfinish. He’s a diedifficult Yankees fan who replyed in that moment as many others have in the past – toss it back on the field.
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