Dodgers Fans Refuse To Be Cheated Of Chance To Jeer Astros

LOS ANGELES, CA — Dodgers fans deprived of their chance to jeer the Astros in person by the pandemic, still managed to find a way to serve up some revenge Saturday.

Fans bitter over the Astros cheating scandal that robbed the Dodgers of a World Series championship hired at least one plane to fly a banner above Dodger Stadium Saturday with a simple message for the opposing team from Houston: "Houston Cheats Bang Bang.”

With the help of a GoFundMe account, the banner flew above Dodger Stadium Saturday, the first time the Astros returned to Los Angeles since the cheating scandal broke last season. Fans aren't allowed to attend games in-person this season, a small mercy for an Astros team spared the wrath of baseball fans.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Dodgers fan David Yontz, a GoFundMe page to raise the $850 to pay for a jeering banner.

“Everything with the 2017 series hurt, even without the cheating and then you add the cheating and it just really hurt,” Yontz told the newspaper. “And I think part of the hurt continues because there wasn’t really any closure because, in my opinion, Commissioner Manfred’s punishment was practically nonexistent.”

On his GoFundMe page, Yontz encouraged fans to get in on the shaming, "Do your part in showing the Trashtros just how much you hate them," he wrote.

The page had raised $949 as of the fourth inning Saturday.

Last season, Houston Astros manager A.J. Hinch and general manager Jeff Luhnow were fired after Major League Baseball concluded the team cheated during the 2017 season by using a camera to steal signs being relayed from opposing- team catchers to pitchers, then tipped off Astros batters about what type of pitch was about to be thrown.

As the scandal was exposed, many around the league and around Dodger Stadium called for the Astros to be stripped of their World Series victory over the Dodgers.

The two teams we play each other again Sunday evening.

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