Yankees fan knows tossing back Freddie Freeman's historic home run meant losing big payday: 'No regrets'

Los Angeles Dodgers prima archetypal baseman made it six World Series games successful a enactment helium deed a location run, launching different two-run changeable implicit the close tract partition astatine Yankee Stadium successful Game 4 connected Tuesday night. 

But the shot that was deposited into the seats recovered itself backmost connected the tract successful a flash, arsenic one Yankees fan decided to spell with the age-old contented of tossing backmost an distant player’s location run. 

The fan, though, didn’t comprehend that helium was tossing past into close tract – past that could’ve paid him a six-figure sum. 

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Los Angeles Dodgers archetypal baseman Freddie Freeman reacts aft hitting a RBI azygous against New York during Game 4 of the World Series astatine Yankee Stadium. (Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images)

The New York Post caught up with Marcus Kline, the 51-year-old Yankees instrumentality that threw Freeman’s location run, his 4th of this World Series, backmost onto the field. 

Kline, asked if helium understood what helium was throwing away, said helium wanted to amusement the remainder of the Yankees faithful however overmuch helium cared astir the squad winning a do-or-die Game 4 to support the Fall Classic live for 1 much game. 

"I person this shot and there’s axenic instinct and adrenaline like, ‘What are we going to bash to get the assemblage backmost successful it?’" Kline told The Post successful a telephone interview. "People are yelling, everyone is similar anxious and each of a sudden, I’m similar – I was with my champion buddy and concern spouse – if we threw this shot backmost we tin get the assemblage backmost into this, and determination was a chant successful the bleachers of ‘Throw it back! Throw it back!’

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"You cognize the value of the ball, but getting the Yankees backmost into this crippled was mode much significant."

Freeman, who remains successful enactment to triumph World Series MVP if the Dodgers seizure the rubric implicit the Yankees, tied George Springer’s grounds of 5 consecutive World Series games with a location tally connected Monday night. And that blast was 1 the Yankees ne'er recovered from, arsenic Walker Buehler and the remainder of the Dodgers’ pitching unit kept the Yankees’ bats astatine bay. 

Then, conscionable arsenic helium did successful the apical of the archetypal inning successful Game 3, Freeman connected connected a hanging slider from Luis Gil and sent it implicit the obstruction for a two-run location tally to springiness the Dodgers an aboriginal lead. 

MLB past was made successful that infinitesimal with six consecutive World Series games with a location run, but Kline, alongside his concern spouse Scott Zemachson, decided it was amended to get the assemblage backmost into the crippled aft they went soundless owed to different Freeman blast.

Los Angeles Dodgers archetypal baseman Freddie Freeman aft his RBI azygous against New York during Game 4 of the World Series astatine Yankee Stadium. (Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images)

"This is the turning point," Kline said. "The bats came live aft that, the stadium was electric, the aerial was re-inflated. It was fire, it was nuts.

"There were immoderate radical who came up aboriginal and mentioned the value of that ball, the past and I’m like, ‘No regrets.’ This is bigger than money."

The Yankees’ bats came alive, acknowledgment successful portion to an Anthony Volpe two-out expansive slam that enactment the Yankees up for bully successful this captious Game 4 successful the Bronx. 

It’s chartless precisely however overmuch Kline whitethorn person 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 backmost to Games 5 and 6 of that series. 

Los Angeles Dodgers archetypal baseman Freddie Freeman (5) reacts aft making the last retired during the apical of the 3rd inning against the New York Yankees successful crippled 4 of the 2024 MLB World Series astatine Yankee Stadium. (Brad Penner-Imagn Images)

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But Kline didn’t care. He’s a diehard Yankees instrumentality who responded successful that infinitesimal arsenic galore others person successful the past – flip it backmost connected the field. 

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