Yankees Radio Host Calls Dodgers ‘Classless Pigs’ for Auctioning Off Aaron Judge Dropped Ball
New York Yankees star Aaron Judge’s dropped ball from Game 5 of the World Series sold for $43,510 after the Los Angeles Dodgers auctioned off the item for charity.
Many Yankees fans hoped to forget the events of the fateful fifth inning in Game 5 of the Fall Classic, but the move by the Dodgers to auction off Judge’s dropped ball angered some in the Bombers’ fanbase. On WFAN Sports Radio, host Evan Roberts sounded off on the Dodgers.
“I think the Dodgers showed who they are. They’re a bunch of classless pigs,” Roberts said.
Judge’s dropped ball being auctioned is salt in the wound for a Yankees organization that fell apart in a matter of minutes. New York’s ace Gerrit Cole held the Dodgers lineup to four scoreless innings, signaling the series would be going back to Los Angeles.
Then came the fifth inning. The Yankees’ nightmare began with Kiké Hernández breaking Cole’s no-hit bid with a modest leadoff single. Just four pitches later, Tommy Edman hit a routine line drive to Judge in center field. Judge proceeded to commit his first error of the 2024 season by dropping the ball. It was the type of error that sent shockwaves through a fanbase that once had a team coined as Murderers’ Row.
But this wasn’t Murderers’ Row; it was everything but that. Five pitches after Judge dropped the ball, Will Smith hit a ground ball to shortstop Anthony Volpe. Volpe missed his throw to third baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., loading the bases with no outs. Once the bases had filled up with Dodger blue uniforms, the Bronx went silent.
But Cole gave Yankees fans hope after striking out Gavin Lux and Shohei Ohtani. As Mookie Betts hit a squibber to first baseman Anthony Rizzo, it seemed as though the Yankees would escape the inning unscathed. And yet, Cole didn’t cover first base and Betts beat him to the bag.
The Dodgers scored their first run to mark the beginning of the end for the Bombers. It’s likely the Yankees won’t ever live down their defensive debacle in Game 5.
And it’s important to note that the Dodgers wouldn’t have been able to auction the dropped ball had Judge caught the routine line drive.
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…and the Yankees are NOT, given they gave the next Bobby Bonilla, a 15 yr, $765M contract??
According to this morning news, MLB was the entity who auctioned the ball…not the Dodgers!
Evan Roberts is not a Yankees Radio Host. He’s a NY Mets fan that hosts the afternoon drive time radio show on WFAN. He is not associated with the Yankees except that WFAN is the radio broadcast station of Yankees baseball games. However, in the NY market, sports talk radio goes after everyone including the hometown teams. We bash our own better than anybody else, especially when they deserve it. So Evan’s take is from a true baseball fan and not a Yankees Radio host as your phony headline states. Sorry for bursting your bubble. Also I’m not a Yankees fan either. I hate them and I enjoyed that inning very much! You still should learn what you are talking about before bashing someone’s take.
That was the other NY team, the Mets.
Evan Roberts can eat a bowl of nacho cheese covered dicks. Sincerely, a Chicano
It’s the business of baseball in the 21 century. Not an aspect I particularly like, but it is what it is. I bet if the situation was reversed the Yankees would have done the same thing in a hot second.
NY media is profoundly biased and would probably be insulted if you even suggested they were unbiased. He’s a talking head blathering to the faithful to stir up ratings and interest, no more, no less.
If Judge dropped the ball, the later picked it up and threw it to another player…. that ball shoulve been thrown to the Yankees batboy and since the game was in NY…. how the hell did the Dodgers get the ball anyways? Literally, nobody from the Dodgers touched it during the play…. Looks like someone else in NY other than Judge ‘dropped the ball’
That’s what I was thinking, what was the chain of custody for that ball I wonder.
As I had always said…act like you have been there before…Dodgers failed to do that…they whimpered and cried all the way to the finish line…..no one outside of Los Angeles cared or does care….the Yankees is America’s team…they will be back and they will extract their revenge
Sounds to me like a bunch of sore loosers, Dodgers beat them fair and square so all you New Yorkers eat it because they’ll match up again next year or the next who knows!
Actually the Dodgers are the 3rd biggest fan base nationally behind the Yankees and Red Sox. Sorry to burst your bubble. Americas team did horrible the entire series and the Dodgers exploited them. The best team truly one that series.
I couldn’t care less about either team. My Hero is Bill Mazeroski. I HATE both teams. Baseball ?? hate of course. But I hate the Dodgers most of all. And maybe my dislike for the Doger fans goes further than just baseball hate. They are the WORST fans going. They leave games early and show up late. LA SUCKS. The team and the WOKE, JOKE city are both JUNK. Disneyland is no longer a good place to take a family.
The Dodgers were cheated out of 2017 and they get no respect for 2020.
No respect for the Dodgers means no respect from the Dodgers.
Yes. The Dodgers went to 3 of 4 WS, both losses to Alex Cora who was later suspended for cheating in those two years, and then the Dodgers won a shortened season that everybody seems to remember as “that year the Dodgers didn’t have to play as many games as everybody else.” If Dodger fans can accept that, the Dodger-haters can, too. If they would try.
It tickles me to be called classless by someone from the city of ball-grabbers.
And the money they raise went to charity. What a bunch of classless pigs donating the money to charity. Big fu—en deal let’s make a bad story out of it instead of a nice one showing compassion
Yankee fans should be getting ready for 2025, and not looking back. The Yankees have won more Pennants and World Series than any team on planet Earth. The The The Dodgers out played the Yankees this year. It’s that simple. Aaron Judge had a great regular season and a horrible postseason. More than anything else that’s why the Yankees couldn’t overcome the Dodgers excellent play. The Dodgers have won 4 of 12 WS between these two outstanding clubs. Let’s move on and ” wait til next year “.
Where’s my comment?
It’s for charity. Grow up, sore loser. Maybe, if the Yankees win another World Series, you can auction off a ball he caught, to pay for your therapy sessions because you are so distraught.
These “classless pigs” are World Champions.
Evan Roberts is a NY Mets fan…not a Yankee fan
So this article is fake news
Evan Roberts is bitter about the 1988 NLCS
Does this WFAN idiot know yet that it was MLB that auctioned the ball and not the Dodgers? The sports media is a joke.
I couldn’t care less about either team. My Hero is Bill Mazeroski. I HATE both teams. Baseball ?? hate of course. But I hate the Dodgers most of all. And maybe my dislike for the Doger fans goes further than just baseball hate. They are the WORST fans going. They leave games early and show up late. LA SUCKS. The team and the WOKE, JOKE city are both JUNK. Disneyland is no longer a good place to take a family.
Eat SHIT! Larry!. This a Dodger board you clown!
Wow Larry, You hate the Dodgers so much you follow them on this site?……You are the joke pal!….Get over it!
Phu Q Larry.
Evan Roberts has been fuming over the 1988 NLCS for going on 40 years, die-hard long-suffering Mets fan who’s having a hard time dealing with the fact that the Mets haven’t won the World Series since “Walk Like An Egyptian” by The Bangles was the #1 song in the country
“CLASSLESS PIGS” for raising money and donating to charity..Are New Yorkers really like that?? OH WAIT!! That’s where Trump is from. Now it all makes sense…the name calling, the disregard for the true final result, being the donation of money to charity, which would never be the end result of any money being acquired by the likes of Trump &/or Trumpers. If they Dodgers were “Classless Pigs” they would have used to the money to have oversized baseball mitts constructed, and had them delivered to Yankee Stadium, addressed to the Yankees infielders & outfielders. Now THAT would be Hilarious!! (And for those in N.Y. that don’t have a sense of humor..”HILARIOUS” is what the world now thinks of, when anyone mentions the incoming U.S. President, and IS the definition equivolent of “classless pig”)
From what I have read, it was MLB that auctioned the ball off, not the Dodgers.