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A baseball fan committed a 'sneaky' move on Wednesday night as he fooled fellow attendees of the Dodgers-Blue Jays World Series clash.
Toronto earned a 3-2 series lead with a 6-1 win in LA, with Vlad Guerrero Jr. hitting a solo home run in the first inning.
And one fan performed a confusing sleight of hand following the homer when he pretended to throw the ball back onto the field.
As seen in a video from Jomboy Media, a fan in an orange t-shirt caught the home run ball from Guerrero.
However, the clip shows that he actually pulled a different ball out of his pocket, which he promptly threw onto the field.
A nearby Blue Jays fan was seemingly duped by the move, as he looked stunned at the decision to give up the would-be home run ball.
The fan in the orange t-shirt caught Vlad Guerrero Jr.'s home run ball on Wednesday
And he was seen taking a ball out of his pocket before throwing the prop onto the field
The move seemingly duped a nearby Blue Jays fans, who looked completely stunned
And fans online appreciated the stunt as well.
'Sneaky lil bugger.. he definitely had me fooled!,' one wrote on X.
'Hahaha. That's a slick move. Planned out,' another said.
'A tidy piece of business here. Hero in the eyes of Dodger fans but in reality kept the ball worth a few bucks. 'Baller' move,' a third added.
And a fourth claimed: 'That ball has to be worth at least a thousand dollars. Throwing it back would be insane.'
Guerrero's early home run was not the only one of the game - or even the inning - for Toronto, as Davis Schneider also went deep in the first inning.
Kiké Hernández later cut into the Blue Jays' lead with a solo home run in the third inning, but Toronto would respond with four more unanswered runs from there to bring them to the brink of a World Series title.
The Blue Jays are looking to end a 32-year championship drought following their last World Series win in 1993.
They'll have an opportunity to do so when they host the Dodgers for Game 6 on Friday.
