Now Maier runs the sales team for media and entertainment at Fastly, an edge cloud provider based in San Francisco. He lives in New England, of all places, though he would rather not specify where. These days, he said, he is recognized no more than once a year. But there is no need to tip off angry Orioles fans.

Maier, a married father of three sons, watches the Yankees all season on his Fubo.TV app and has taken his boys to see them play at Fenway Park. After playing catch on Saturday, he monitored the rest of the game while juggling bath time for his kids.

Maier fretted about Severino, who left after four innings because Manager Joe Girardi feared a shoulder problem. (“I feel 100 percent great,” Severino insisted.) He wondered about this winter’s free-agent class, and who might fit for the Yankees. He expressed dismay at their hitters for taking too many curveballs from the Astros’ Justin Verlander.

He saw replays of Correa’s homer, naturally, and offered his perspective on whether Judge could have caught it, or whether Riley interfered. The Yankees initiated a crew chief review, which upheld the home run call on the field.

“It’s tough to know if it was catchable,” Maier said in a text message. “Obviously, the wall is not high, and we all saw Josh Reddick make the play earlier. Depends on the jump Judge got off the bat. Don’t believe it was interference, and I’d imagine Judge was unable to get a good read or got a late start, because we’ve seen him pull balls back before.”

That matched Judge’s own assessment in the clubhouse.

“I got back there a little late,” Judge said. “He took a good swing on a ball off the plate off Sevvy. I just wasn’t able to get back and get a good read to the wall and get up there and make a play.”

Asked if he believed the fan had interfered, Judge said: “I don’t think so. I’m not too sure. It happened so fast. I really haven’t seen the replay.”