Twenty-year-old Michael Kessler instantly became a celebrity at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night when he came up with Aaron Judge’s 60th home run ball, and it seems like he had to endure some pain to come away with the valuable souvenir.
Judge launched the monumental home run in the bottom of the ninth inning, and the authenticated ball took a high bounce into the left field bleachers, where an all-out dogpile ensued in the battle to come away with the piece of baseball history.
Here’s the dog pile of people fighting for it pic.twitter.com/C2y8zWf4Rx
— Steve (@HonnyWags) September 21, 2022
Kessler came away with it, saying he just immediately bear-hugged the ball, and gave it back to Judge for not much in return.
If and when home runs 61 and 62 come, the battle for the ball will likely be just as chaotic.
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