A kind gesture from a Toronto Blue Jays fan has gone viral online after he gifted a home-run ball to a nearby Yankees fan during a May 4 game in Toronto.
When the New York Yankees’ Aaron Judge struck a home run to left field in the sixth inning, the camera followed the flying baseball into the seats at Rogers Centre, where a Blue Jays fan, Mike Lanzillotta, scooped up the ball, raising his arms in a split second of victory.
But his next gesture came to everyone’s surprise.
Lanzillotta leaned forward and placed the ball in the outstretched hands of a young Yankees fan, Derek Rodriguez, who was standing in the row behind him, wearing a Yankees ball cap and a jersey bearing Judge’s name.
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