The ball from the second the Yankees began to unravel in Sport 5 of the World Sequence, which the Dodgers received to clinch their title, can now be bought — and bidders have assigned it a shocking price ticket of $25,000.
By the point Aaron Decide dropped Tommy Edman’s routine line drive within the high of the fifth inning, the Yankees had constructed a 5-0 lead and had been seemingly positioned to win a second consecutive recreation within the sequence and shift it again to Los Angeles — a chance which Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts later admitted would have scared him — after initially falling behind 3-0.
However Edman’s ball bounced off Decide’s glove, the Dodgers erupted for 5 runs within the body and later secured their championship with a 7-6 victory on Oct. 30 at Yankee Stadium.
The official public sale website of the Dodgers launched one for that ball on Dec. 2, and because the sale entered its remaining hours — it was set to finish at 8 p.m. EST — Thursday night, the bidding ballooned from $21,000 to $25,000 after opening at $100.
Los Angeles listed the ball as “Dropped Fly Ball by Aaron Judge” and famous that Gerrit Cole was the pitcher throughout that at-bat.
Eighty-five bids have been made on the ball, based on the web site.
Decide’s error occurred after Kiké Hernández led off the inning with a single, and the Dodgers ultimately loaded the bases.
Cole almost escaped the jam by putting out Gavin Lux and Shohei Ohtani, however Mookie Betts reached on an infield single when Cole didn’t cowl first base, Freddie Freeman singled and Teoscar Hernandez doubled to erase the Yankees’ lead.
“That doesn’t happen, I think we got a different story tonight,” Decide stated on the time, whereas saying “I just didn’t make it” when requested what went improper in the course of the sequence.
That error ultimately helped spoil a Yankees’ season that opened the playoffs because the American League’s high seed behind Aaron Decide and Juan Soto, and their try to run it again in 2025 will characteristic a special lineup after Soto bolted to the Mets for a 15-year, $765 million deal in free company.
