Mlb Playoffs Who Is Zack Hample Ball Hawk Denied By Aaron Judge At Stadium

Call it karmic justice, then, when he missed on one Sunday night at Yankee Stadium, thanks to Aaron Judge.

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Judge reached above the top of the right-field wall to snag a long ball by the Indians’ Franciso Lindor in Game 3 of the teams’ ALDS.

Note how Hample charged the ball from his bleacher seat and seemed to be in the Jeffrey Maier position (i.e., hanging over the wall).

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Hample says he wasn’t in position to interfere.

People might remember that Hample’s gift of grab (he has written a book about it) put him in the middle of a controversy two years ago. He snagged Alex Rodriguez’s 3,000th career hit, a home run into the Stadium bleachers. Hample at first said he’d keep the ball, then negotiated a sweetheart deal to give it back to Rodriguez, another unsympathetic figure.