{"id":12527,"date":"2017-07-31T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/fan-blamed-for-chicago-cubs-loss-gets-his-own-world-series-ring\/"},"modified":"2017-07-31T15:04:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T23:04:00","slug":"fan-blamed-for-chicago-cubs-loss-gets-his-own-world-series-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/fan-blamed-for-chicago-cubs-loss-gets-his-own-world-series-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Fan Blamed For Chicago Cubs' Loss Gets His Own World Series Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n On Monday the Chicago Cubs gave a 2016 World Series championship ring to Steve Bartman, a fan blamed for a team loss in 2003.<\/p>\n

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A year after the Chicago Cubs won their first World Series title in more than a century, a long-suffering fan is getting another reward.<\/p>\n

Steve Bartman was handed a personalized 2016 World Series ring, after being blamed for costing the team the title 13 years earlier.<\/p>\n

It began with a simple gesture, perhaps an instinctive one on Oct. 14, 2003. The Cubs were ahead, 3-0, in Game 6 of the National League Championship Series against the Marlins in the eighth inning. A foul ball headed Bartman’s way. He \u2014 and other fans \u2014 reached out for it, but it was Bartman who deflected it from the outstretched mitt of left fielder Moises Alou.<\/p>\n

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The Marlins wound up scoring eight runs in the remainder of the inning. They won the game, then the series.<\/p>\n

The umpire determined it was fair game on Bartman’s part because he didn’t reach beyond the stands. It would have counted as interference if he had extended his arm out over the field, which would have resulted in the ball being declared dead, according to<\/a> major league rules.<\/p>\n