The MVP of Recreation 1 of the World Sequence won’t be Freddie Freeman however a Los Angeles Dodgers fan within the stands who robbed the New York Yankees of a go-ahead run within the prime of the ninth inning on Friday, October 25.
A 99mph pitch, high-right of the plate, was crushed by Gleyber Torres and appeared destined to provide the Yankees a 3-2 lead heading into the underside of the ninth till a fan reached over the wall and caught the ball.
That result in a name of fan interference and restricted Torres to only a double, which the crew could not convert right into a run earlier than because the inning got here to an in depth with immediate recollections of Jeffrey Maier‘s 1996 catch from Derek Jeter‘s dwelling run.
However on October 25, the Dodgers additionally failed to attain when it was their flip to bat within the ninth too. The New Yorkers then added one run on the prime of the tenth earlier than Freeman’s walk-off homerun with two on base ended the night time and despatched Dodger Stadium wild because the Californian aspect took Recreation 1 of the World Sequence with a 6-3 win.
What’s the Jeffrey Maier Incident?
The Jeffrey Maier incident befell in Recreation 1 of the 1996 ALCS and had the Baltimore Orioles’ gamers fuming as a result of the umpires did not name fan interference when a Jeter shot to right-field was caught by a 12-year-old Yankees fan.
Nevertheless, Tony Tarasco proper beneath the ball able to make the catch if the fan did not get entangled, probably preserving their lead within the recreation because the umpire known as the house run for the Yankees as an alternative.
A problem was made and the decision was upheld and that made it a 4-4 ballgame, resulting in an ejection for the Orioles’ head coach, earlier than the Yankees gained within the eleventh in some of the controversial moments in fashionable baseball historical past.
The umpire who made the decision later admitted there was fan interference and Tarasco might have caught the ball because the Yankees went on to defeat the Orioles 4-1 within the collection earlier than occurring to turn into MLB champions.
