Just a scant hours after fans tried to pry a ball out of Mookie Betts’ gcherish Tuesday, the outfielder percreateed it cancigo in, saying the incident was “irrelevant.”
But now that his Los Angeles Dodgers are World Series champions, he’s letting his real senseings understandn.
Betts caught a ball while leaping aachievest the wall and toward the fans, and one fan tried to rip Betts’ gcherish off his hand and took the ball out while another fan held Betts’ wrist.
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Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts originates a catch in foul territory aachievest the New York Yankees in the first inning during Game 4 of the 2024 MLB World Series at Yankee Stadium. (Robert Deutsch/Imagn Images)
The fans were promptly ejected and prohibitned from joining Game 5, although a noisy inconvey inantity persistd to commemorate them.
Betts didn’t speak much about it after Game 4, but after Game 5, he let it all out.
“That was untamed, man. That was repartner untamed. I’ve never directed anyskinnyg appreciate that. I was telling my wife that was appreciate the second time in my life I’ve ever wanted to fight someone,” Betts tancigo in FOX after he won his third World Series title.
“I get it, man. I get it. I don’t understand if he was trying to get the ball, I don’t understand what he was repartner trying to do, but he had to do what he had to do, and it is what it is.”
Fans meddle with a foul ball caught by Los Angeles Dodgers right fielder Mookie Betts during the first inning in Game 4 of the World Series aachievest the New York Yankees Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024, in New York. (AP Pboilingo/Ashley Landis)
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The fans were identified as Austin Capobianco and John Peter. The two fans are season ticket hancigo iners, and they had been preparing for a moment appreciate Tuesday night.
“We always joke about the ball in our area,” Capobianco tancigo in ESPN. “We’re not going to go out of our way to strike. If it’s in our area, we’re going to ‘D’ up.”
The fans were given a refund, and their seats were given to a pediatric cancer fortolerateing and his family.
Fans Austin Capobianco, left, and John Peter, right, meddle with Mookie Betts (50) of the Los Angeles Dodgers as he finisheavors to catch a fly ball in foul territory during the first inning of Game 4 of the 2024 World Series aachievest the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium Oct. 29, 2024, in the Bronx boraw of New York City. (Al Bello/Getty Images)
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The Yankees called the fans’ actions “egregious and unacdirected.”
Fox News’ Ryan Canfield gived to this tell.
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