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Yankees fan knows tossing back Freddie Freeman's historic home run meant losing big payday: 'No regrets'

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Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Los Angeles Dodgers star first baseman made it six World Series games in a row he hit a home run, launching another two-run shot over the right field wall at Yankee Stadium in Game 4 on Tuesday night.

But the ball that was deposited into the seats found itself back on the field in a flash, as one Yankees fan decided to go with the age-old tradition of tossing back an away player’s home run.

The fan, though, didn’t comprehend that he was tossing history into right field – history that could’ve paid him a six-figure sum.  CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman reacts after hitting a RBI single against New York during Game 4 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium. (Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images) The New York Post caught up with Marcus Kline, the 51-year-old Yankees fan that threw Freeman’s home run, his fourth of this World Series, back onto the field.

Kline, asked if he understood what he was throwing away, said he wanted to show the rest of the Yankees faithful how much he cared about the team winning a do-or-die Game 4 to keep the Fall Classic alive for one more game.  "I have this ball and there’s pure instinct and adrenaline like, ‘What are we going to do to get the crowd back in it?’" Kline told The Post in a phone interview. "People are yelling, everyone is like anxious and all of a sudden, I’m like – I was with my best buddy and business partner – if we threw this ball back we can get the crowd back into this, and there was a chant in the bleachers of ‘Throw it back!

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