Main League Baseball has banned two followers who interfered with Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts throughout a World Sequence recreation at Yankee Stadium from attending any video games at massive league ballparks.
MLB despatched a letter to Austin Capobianco and John P. Hansen this week informing them of the choice.
“On Oct. 29, 2024, during Game 4 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium, you interfered with play by intentionally and forcefully grabbing a player. Your conduct posed a serious risk to the health and safety of the player and went far over the line of acceptable fan behavior,” stated the letter, the contents of which had been first reported by the New York Submit and later obtained by The Related Press.
“Primarily based in your conduct, Main League Baseball is banning you indefinitely from all MLB stadiums, places of work, and different services,” the letter said. “You’re additionally hereby banned indefinitely from attending any occasions sponsored by or related to MLB. Please be suggested that if you’re found at any MLB property or occasion, you’ll be faraway from the premises and topic to arrest for trespass.”
MLB has beforehand issued league-wide bans for followers who trespass on the sphere or threaten baseball personnel. A fan who approached Atlanta Braves star Ronald Acuña Jr. at Colorado’s Coors Discipline in 2023 obtained an analogous ban.
Capobianco and Hansen had been ejected from the sport on Oct. 29 and banned from Recreation 5 the next evening.
Betts leaped on the retaining wall in foul territory and caught Gleyber Torres’ pop fly within the first inning, however a fan within the first row with a grey Yankees street jersey grabbed Betts’ glove with each arms and pulled the ball out. One other fan grabbed Betts’ naked hand.
The Yankees known as the conduct “egregious and unacceptable.” The staff stated Friday the 2 followers MLB banned weren’t season ticket holders.
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