Mookie Betts celebrates his home run that put the Dodgers ahead against Philadelphia.
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Los angeles dodgers, the team that typically leads the major leagues each season in fan attendance to their stadium, drew 52,078 Tuesday night for their first home game since late in the evening. pandemic restrictions in Los Angeles.
It is, according to Dodgers, of the most fans for a professional league event in the United States since the COVID-19 it made a big impact on sports.
For the first time since 2019, we have a packed house at Dodger Stadium#ReopeningDayLA pic.twitter.com/1HnnM5OYoX
– FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) June 16, 2021
The atmosphere was very festive at Dodger Stadium, including in the final innings after the reigning World Series champs took the lead thanks to a home run by Mookie Betts in the seventh inning. The Dodgers won the game 5-3.
Wearing Mookie’s jersey and catching his home run ball? Simply the Betts. pic.twitter.com/HPI4A8j6E9
– Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) June 16, 2021
It was precisely on that key hit from Betts that one of the more than 52,000 people in the stadium made the catch of the game; It was a Dodgers fan wearing a jersey with Betts’s own number 50.
The young woman’s celebration was euphoric and with good reason, because in addition to catching a home run by her favorite player, she did it by stretching over two fans who were in front of her on the left-center field fence.
The match, in addition to being the first full-capacity stadium since 2019, featured the delivery of Justin Turner’s “bobblehead” for fans and a spectacular sunset despite a heat wave hitting southern California.
Sunsets and bobblehead nights.
Tonight’s @ redturn2 Bobblehead Night presented by Spectrum. pic.twitter.com/fS0Z4uXw6z
– Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) June 16, 2021
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