{"id":12790,"date":"2024-10-31T02:57:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T02:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=12790"},"modified":"2024-10-31T02:57:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T02:57:11","slug":"mookie-betts-responds-to-yankees-fan-prying-ball-away-from-his-glove-in-game-4-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=12790","title":{"rendered":"Mookie Betts Responds to Yankees Fan Prying Ball Away From His Glove in Game 4 Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_enosogjul\">The New York Yankees live to play another game of baseball after taking Game 4 of the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night. One of the highlights of the Yankees\u2019 win-or-go-home matchup involved not a New York player, but a New York fan who inserted himself into the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_h8z7zfcpj\">At the bottom of the first inning, Dodgers star Mookie Betts chased down a foul ball in right field and reached over the wall to make an impressive catch. Two Yankees fans in the front row then tried to\u00a0<a class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/yankees-fan-ejected-after-actually-trying-pry-fly-ball-out-mookie-betts-glove\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/yankees-fan-ejected-after-actually-trying-pry-fly-ball-out-mookie-betts-glove\">physically pry the ball out of Betts\u2019s glove<\/a>\u00a0by grabbing at Betts\u2019 hands, and one of them was actually able to take the ball from him.<\/p>\n<div data-google-query-id=\"CL-ThLLPt4kDFZg4RAgd0NgFAg\">\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_a86u9ihdq\">After the Dodgers\u2019 11-4 loss, Betts curtly addressed the wild incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_36zjibee4\">\u201cNo, I didn\u2019t even know he grabbed my hands,\u201d Betts told reporters. \u201cWhen it comes to the person and play, it doesn\u2019t matter. We lost. It\u2019s irrelevant. I\u2019m fine, he\u2019s fine. Everything\u2019s cool. We lost the game, that\u2019s what I\u2019m trying to focus on, we gotta turn the page and get ready for tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mookie Betts wasn\u2019t interested in talking about the incident with the two fans in the first inning, calling it \u201cirrelevant\u201d to the final result of the game. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t1TJKdvG25\">pic.twitter.com\/t1TJKdvG25<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arash Markazi (@ArashMarkazi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArashMarkazi\/status\/1851470312740704585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_ifjd3lpnl\">The two Yankees fans who fought Betts for the ball were ejected from the stadium shortly after the tussle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_4chij9mea\">The Yankees and Dodgers will face off for Game 5 on Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium, with the Dodgers leading the series, 3-1. Hopefully, this upcoming matchup will be less tinged by off-field distractions and controversy, though the Yankees fans who were ejected\u00a0<a class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/yankees-fan-ridiculous-reason-for-taking-ball-from-mookie-betts-glove\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/yankees-fan-ridiculous-reason-for-taking-ball-from-mookie-betts-glove\">were apparently told<\/a>\u00a0they will be allowed to attend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees live to play another game of baseball after taking Game 4 of the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12792,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12790\/revisions\/12792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}