Exclusive | Yankees fan threw back potential $100,000 Freddie Freeman record World Series home run ball but has no regrets

As Marcus Kline held Freddie Freeman’s sixth straight World Series game home run ball Tuesday night, the life-long New Yorker contemplated two scenarios.He could keep Freeman’s historic ball and potentially enjoy a five-or-more-figure payday.Or the 51-year-old could do what you do when you sit in the outfield at Yankee Stadium and hurl it back onto the field, winning over the fans in the process.“I have this this ball and there’s pure instinct and adrenaline like, ‘What are we doing to do to get the crowd back in it?” Kline told The Post in a phone interview on Wednesday.“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 chant in the bleachers of ‘Throw it back! Throw it back!’“You know the significance of the ball, but getting the Yankees back into this game was way more significant.”Kline then passed the ball to said friend, Scott Zemachson, who hurled it back onto the field in a moment that Kline maintains galvanized the fans and the Yankees in the 11-4 Game 4 win to avoid elimination.He doubled down on his belief that he made the right decision, financial considerations be damned.“This is the turning point,” Kline, who works in finance, said of how his decision affected the game.

“The bats came alive after that, the stadium was electric, the air was re-inflated.It was fire, it was nuts.“There were some people who came up later and mentioned the significance of that ball, the history and I’m like, ‘No regrets.’ This is bigger than money.”While another pair of Yankees fans made headlines Tuesday for their decisions when it came to how they handled their business when a ball came near them — two fans were banned from Game 5 for interfering with a Mookie Betts catch in Game 4 — Kline, who grew up on Long Island, ended up with a story that will last a lifetime when he...