Bug-Spray Can Used In Playoffs Nets $673 In Auction
9th December, 2007 - 10:21 am
ESPN - A can of bug spray used in the Yankees' dugout when those tiny midges swarmed Cleveland's Jacobs Field during the American League playoffs fetched $673 online.

The pest repellant was up for bid in a Major League Baseball auction of memorabilia from the 2007 postseason.

Distracted by the bugs -- called midges -- crawling all over his neck and face, New York reliever Joba Chamberlain threw two wild pitches in Game 2 of the division series. That allowed the Indians to score the tying run in the eighth inning.

The Yankees lost 2-1 in 11 innings and fell behind 2-0 in the best-of-five series, which they lost in four games. [READ]

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