Dodgers star says team won World Series as soon as Fat Joe performed at Yankee Stadium

The Los Angeles Dodgers won the first two games of the World Series at home.

Then the time had come Yankee Stadiumwhich is never a walk in the park in October – until now apparently.

Monday night’s Game 3 was the first World Series game in the Bronx in nearly 15 years, and the crowd was rowdy.

Then Fat Joe grabbed a microphone and took the field.

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The New York-based rapper performed portions of three of his hits, “Lean Back,” “New York,” and “All The Way Up.” But the attempt to pump up the local team was not particularly well received by anyone.

Except the Dodgers.

The Dodgers were fans of the performance because they knew then that they had won it all, said Los Angeles outfielder Kiké Hernandez.

“We go to New York, and this guy used to be fat. He’s not fat anymore. His name is Joe. He came out and sang, and guess what? We didn’t even have to play, because after that performance we already had win,” Hernandez said during the Dodgers’ victory celebration at Dodger Stadium.

Compton rapper Ice Cube performed before Game 2 in Los Angeles, which Hernandez said gave the Dodgers an automatic victory that night. The Dodgers won both games with live performances.

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Hernandez’s comments mirrored those of teammate Joe Kellywho attributed the “Fat Joe curse” to the Dodgers’ Game 5 comeback.

“When we were down 5-0, and they put Fat Joe on the board, I thought, ‘Oh, it’s an easy copy now,'” Kelly said after the Dodgers’ comeback in Game 5 and victory in the World Series. , via Audacy Sports podcast host Rob Bradford.

“You know Fat Joe is the curse. They started kicking the ball around and playing Yankee defense.

“(Fat Joe) was on the jumbotron, I’m pretty sure, right before the fifth. I looked at (Brent) Honeywell and said, ‘The Fat Joe Curse. Look.’ And we started chipping away, chipping away, chipping away. And bad game, bad game, bad game And finally I get my second (World Series) with the Dodgers.

The Yankees made a series of errors in the fifth inning. Aaron Judge dropped a routine catch in center field, Anthony Volpe misfired on a throw to third baseman Jazz Chisholm and Gerrit Cole and Anthony Rizzo failed to communicate who would cover the first base bag with a simple ground ball.

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It was Los Angeles’ eighth World Series title and second since 2020.

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