It was a wondrous Dodger postcard, a man in a Fernando Valenzuela jersey lifting a woman in a Dodger bucket hat as she waved an historic home run ball high above a sea of blue.
That was the magical scene Wednesday night in the Dodger Stadium right-field pavilion as Ambar Roman and husband Alexis Valenzuela celebrated Roman’s grab of Shohei Ohtani’s first Dodger home run.
It was a valuable souvenir. It was a frenzied scene. It was a priceless moment.
It was a nightmare.
“It started out so good,” said Valenzuela. “Then it ended in a hustle.