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Aaron Judge couldn’t read the line.
Apparently some people in New York didn’t read the fine print.
Last week, the ball that Judge famously dropped in the fifth inning of the Yankees’ Game 5 loss to the Dodgers in this year’s World Series sold at auction for $43,510.
The seller was Major League Baseball. But some viral social media posts — showing the ball listed on the Dodgers league auction website — apparently led some in the Big Apple to believe the team was doing it for itself.
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“I think the Dodgers showed who they are,” New York talk show host Evan Roberts said on WFAN in New York. “They’re a bunch of classless pigs.”
In reality, the ball was part of a larger year-end auction organized by MLB, the description of which included “Dropped Fly Ball by Aaron Judge.”
Judge’s loss, of course, helped set the stage for the Dodgers’ historic comeback in Game 5 of the World Series, as they rallied from a five-run deficit in Game 5 en route to the biggest comeback win in a title game of the fall made up for Classic History.
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This story originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times.
