Dodgers' Joc Pederson gets his money's worth with home run in Game 6 of World Series

A.J. Perez | Paste BN

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LOS ANGELES --- Joc Pederson basically claimed amnesia when asked about his seventh-inning home run celebration in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 3-1 win over the Houston Astros in Game 6 of the World Series on Tuesday.

“Yeah, emotions run high,” Pederson said. “You kind of black out in a situation like that. So I'm going to have to re-watch it to see what I did.”

After touching third, Pederson shuffled sideways shuffle as he faced the Dodgers’ dugout, his hands doing something popularized by former Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel: the money sign celebration as he rubbed his fingers together. He then yelled as he pointed to Justin Turner in his dugout.

Not that one would need it with the Dodgers facing celebration, but Pederson didn’t shoot down talk that he may have won some money for his opposite field shot off Astros reliever Joe Musgrove that gave the Dodgers their final run of Game 6.

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“Yeah, I think I've kind of been struggling all year (at) trying to use the whole field,” Pederson said. “So people are trying to get me encouraged to using the whole field. And I'm not very good at it. So it was relieving to, I guess, to hit the ball the other way.”

Pederson, a lefty, hit 11 home runs in the regular season and has three this postseason, his first of the World Series coming on Tuesday. His homer in Game 6 was only the second he’s hit to the opposite field.

“I didn't think I got it,” Pederson said.

Some baseball fans, at least on social media, were critical of Pederson’s antic, although none of the Astros players interviewed by Paste BN Sports had an issue with it.

“He was happy he hit a homer,” Astros second baseman Jose Altuve said. “I’d do the same thing.”

Josh Peter contributed to this report

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