Yankees outfielder defends 'passion' of fans who interfered with Mookie Betts

Two New York Yankees fans pried a shot retired of Mookie Betts' mitt Tuesday night, resulting successful an ejection from nan crippled and a prohibition from Wednesday night's contest.

The Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder caught nan shot while leaping against nan wall and toward nan fans, but 1 instrumentality tried to rip Betts' mitt disconnected of his manus and took nan shot retired while different instrumentality held Betts' wrist.

The fans person been wide criticized for their actions, though location has been immoderate praise, including photos and autographs, by a large minority.

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Fans interfere pinch a foul shot caught by Los Angeles Dodgers correct fielder Mookie Betts during nan first inning successful Game 4 of nan World Series against nan New York Yankees Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024, successful New York.  (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Betts did his champion to disregard nan situation, but erstwhile Dodger and existent Yankees outfielder Alex Verdugo didn't precisely condemn nan fans' actions.

Verdugo acknowledged nan ordeal was "more extreme" than normal, but he isn't precisely amazed it happened.

"At nan aforesaid time, that's benignant of New York. I consciousness for illustration that's what you expect retired here. It's conscionable immoderate unsocial things," Verdugo said.

Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts makes a drawback successful foul territory against nan New York Yankees successful nan first inning during Game 4 of nan 2024 MLB World Series astatine Yankee Stadium.  (Robert Deutsch/Imagn Images)

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"I didn't consciousness for illustration it was excessively serious. I deliberation Mookie benignant of shook it off. That's, I guess, nan passion that New Yorkers have.

"It is what it is. I wouldn't person immoderate problem if they were present coming aliases if they weren't. At nan extremity of nan day, that's what MLB deemed they wanted to do, and they gotta show immoderate type of disciplinary act. It is what it is."

The fans were identified arsenic Austin Capobianco and John Peter. The 2 fans are play summons holders, and they had been preparing for a infinitesimal for illustration Tuesday night.

"We ever joke astir nan shot successful our area," Capobianco told ESPN. "We’re not going to spell retired of our measurement to attack. If it’s successful our area, we’re going to ‘D’ up."

They are prohibited from attending Game 5 Wednesday, and nan Yankees person fixed nan seats to a section pediatric crab patient.

Mookie Betts cries foul aft fans interfere pinch his catch. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

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The Yankees called nan fans' actions "egregious and unacceptable."

Fox News' Ryan Canfield contributed to this report.

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