Dua Lipa’s night at Yankee Stadium ended up being about more than the Yankees’ Game 3 loss. The pop star was seated behind home plate for Wednesday’s American League Division Series matchup against the Rays, and one photo from the fourth inning did the rounds fast: Lipa, in a red jacket, caught mid-bite on a hot dog behind the netting.
She was there with her husband, Callum Turner, and cameras picked them up in the crowd throughout the game. Page Six posted the hot dog shot on X Thursday morning, and the internet did what it does best. Fans zeroed in on the image, the timing, and even the mystery of the toppings.
“Mid bite eating a hot dog is foul work by the cameraman 🤣😂” one user wrote.
“Can anyone confirm the toppings?” another asked.
“Why you gotta do her dirty like that” another fan said.
“how the f**k is this a headline” someone else wrote.
The night also included a brief interaction with Marlins Man, the longtime superfan, who said on X that it was Lipa’s first baseball game and her first hot dog. He described her as “super nice” and said he wished the newlyweds “50 years of happiness.” He also posted that he had no idea who they were before meeting them and said he snapped a selfie with the pair from his seats behind the plate.
Yankees fans gave the couple a few ballpark lessons along the way, too. According to Bleacher Report, they were told to stand when an opposing hitter falls behind 0-2.
Lipa’s visit came just days after a Chanel show in Paris, also per Bleacher Report. She and Turner married on May 31 in London.
As for the game itself, Tampa Bay had already taken the first two games of the series, and Wednesday finished the sweep with a 4-3 win. That made it the Rays’ first sweep of a best-of-five or longer postseason series.
Ryan Vilade got Tampa Bay going with a solo home run off Max Fried in the fourth inning. Victor Mesa Jr. added a two-run homer in the sixth to put the Rays ahead. Another sixth-inning moment also turned heads when umpires overturned Anthony Volpe’s disputed hit after a fan reached over the wall, and Mesa later taunted Yankees fans in fan footage of the aftermath.
Nick Martinez allowed two runs while getting 11 outs for the Rays, and Bryan Baker earned the save. The Yankees are out after three games, their second sweep in a best-of-five series and their first since the 1980 ALCS. Tampa Bay moves on to the ALCS, with Game 1 set for Monday at Tropicana Field.
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