Before the Dodgers fell to the Mets 7-3 on Wednesday, Alex Verdugo talked to New York third baseman Todd Frazier on the field.
As Frazier attempted to catch Verdugo’s foul ball Monday, he dived into the stands with the ball appearing to be in his glove. He emerged holding a ball in the air, so the umpire called Verdugo out.
But that ball was not the one Verdugo hit. The real ball slipped out of Frazier’s glove when he landed. As Frazier grabbed what he thought was Verdugo’s ball beside him, he instead found a child’s rubber replica lying in the stands.