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

Los Angeles Dodgers prima first baseman made it six World Series games successful a statement he deed a location run, launching different two-run changeable complete nan correct section wall astatine Yankee Stadium successful Game 4 connected Tuesday night. 

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

The fan, though, didn’t comprehend that he was tossing history into correct section – history that could’ve paid him a six-figure sum. 

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

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

Kline, asked if he understood what he was throwing away, said he wanted to show nan remainder of nan Yankees religious really overmuch he cared astir nan squad winning a do-or-die Game 4 to support nan Fall Classic live for 1 much game. 

"I person this shot and there’s axenic small heart and adrenaline like, ‘What are we going to do to get nan crowd backmost successful it?’" Kline told The Post successful a telephone interview. "People are yelling, everyone is for illustration anxious and each of a sudden, I’m for illustration – I was pinch my champion buddy and business partner – if we threw this shot backmost we tin get nan crowd backmost into this, and location was a chant successful nan bleachers of ‘Throw it back! Throw it back!’

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

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

Then, conscionable arsenic he did successful nan apical of nan first inning successful Game 3, Freeman connected connected a hanging slider from Luis Gil and sent it complete nan obstruction for a two-run location tally to springiness nan Dodgers an early lead. 

MLB history was made successful that infinitesimal pinch six consecutive World Series games pinch a location run, but Kline, alongside his business partner Scott Zemachson, decided it was amended to get nan crowd backmost into nan crippled aft they went silent owed to different Freeman blast.

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

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

"There were immoderate group who came up later and mentioned nan value of that ball, nan history 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 put nan Yankees up for bully successful this captious Game 4 successful nan Bronx. 

It’s chartless precisely really overmuch Kline whitethorn person gotten for nan Freeman ball, but Jorge Soler’s Game 6 homer during nan 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 first baseman Freddie Freeman (5) reacts aft making nan last retired during nan apical of nan 3rd inning against nan New York Yankees successful crippled 4 of nan 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 nan past – flip it backmost connected nan field. 

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