The ball from the moment the Yankees started to falter in Game 5 of the World Series, which the Dodgers won and clinched the championship, is now available for purchase, and bidders have brought it for a whopping $25,000. are.
By the time Aaron Judge hit Tommy Edman's routine line drive in the top of the fifth inning, the Yankees had built a 5-0 lead and appeared to be in position to take the game back to Los Angeles with a second straight series win. As Dodgers manager Dave Roberts later admitted, initially trailing 3-0, he probably feared that possibility.
However, Edman's ball bounced off Judge's glove, and the Dodgers scored five runs on target before clinching the championship with a 7-6 victory at Yankee Stadium on October 30.
Dodgers official auction site On December 2nd, we released a version that corresponds to that ball.And as the sale entered its final hours Thursday night (it was scheduled to end at 8 p.m. ET), bidding started at $100 and ballooned from $21,000 to $25,000.
Los Angeles listed the ball as a “drop fly ball by Aaron Judge” and noted that Gerrit Cole was the pitcher in that at-bat.
The ball received 85 bids, according to its website.
Judge's error occurred after Quique Hernandez led off with a single in the first inning and the Dodgers ultimately loaded the bases.
Cole almost got out of the jam by striking out Gavin Lux and Shohei Ohtani, but when Cole failed to cover first base, Mookie Betts reached for an infield hit, Freddie Freeman singled, and Teoscar Hernandez doubled, giving the Yankees the lead. erased the lead.
“That's not going to happen. I think we'll have a different story tonight,” the judge said at the time, but when asked what went wrong during the sequence, he answered, “It just didn't work out.”
That mistake ultimately ruined the Yankees' season, as they opened the playoffs as the American League's top seed behind Aaron Judge and Juan Soto. And their attempt to restart the season in 2025 will feature a different lineup after Soto bolted to the Mets in 2015. Free agent contract worth $765 million in 2019.
