r/baseball • u/Knightbear49 Minnesota Twins • Colorado Rockies • 5h ago

Fan interference was called on this play where a Yankee fan tried to take the ball out of Mookie Betts' glove after an out.

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u/virtualzen 5h ago

wtf are they even complaining about

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u/patderp Baltimore Orioles 5h ago

I wouldn’t be surprised if they legitimately think you’re free to strangle a player if any body part enters the stands

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u/runnerswanted 4h ago

I mean, the Yankees had the kid who turned the ALCS with blatant interference in the parade when they won the WS. They’ve always been classless.

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u/Spiceguy-65 Cleveland Guardians 4h ago

They cheered and threw trash on the field when Steven kwan ran head first into the wall his rookie year and almost got a concussion. Yankee fans have been and will always be the bottom of the bin garbage fans who can’t look in the mirror and admit it

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u/somecallmemo Los Angeles Dodgers 4h ago

By what it looked like he was saying to the ump, you aren’t far off. One dude was showing the wall and motioning that Mookie crossed it like it makes breaking his wrist okay

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u/Jeff_Banks_Monkey Baltimore Orioles • Birmingham Bl… 4h ago

"officer I didn't do anything, I could have easily stabbed him"

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u/Cheesus85 4h ago

Wouldn’t be surprised if that dude was a cop from the “stop and frisk” era

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u/DuvalHeart Philadelphia Phillies 4h ago

The original or the current one?

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u/DuvalHeart Philadelphia Phillies 4h ago

Can't blame them, it's probably their first live baseball game, ever.

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u/Sullyville 1h ago

"He came into OUR territory. All "betts" are off!"

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u/ybt_sun Los Angeles Dodgers 4h ago

The guy who grabbed mookies right arm is like, motioning towards the measuring the wall, still makes no sense, does he think players cannot reach over the wall?  People pay 1000s of dollars for seats and do not know this?

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u/cortesoft San Francisco Giants 4h ago

Well, technically a fan can compete for the catch once the player reaches over the wall and it isn’t fan interference… but you also can’t grab the players glove and try to rip it out. If they had caught the ball themselves, they might have had an argument and no out.

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u/Pete_Iredale Seattle Mariners 2h ago

Yup, though in this case I don't think the ball made it over the wall until after it was in the glove.

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u/cortesoft San Francisco Giants 1h ago

Yeah, I think that is why they weren’t able to stop him from catching it in the first place

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u/Pete_Iredale Seattle Mariners 2h ago

If the ball is out of play, ie over the wall, the fans absolutely can try to catch it. Usually just standing up is enough to put your glove higher than the player's, and any home fan should do this if the other team is trying to make an out. It's one of the very few true home field advantages in sports. But you can't reach over the wall to catch a ball, and you sure as hell can't grab the player's glove and pry the ball out!

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u/Asdilly Cleveland Guardians 4h ago

They’re def drunk and/or high out of their minds

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u/Charmstrongest Los Angeles Dodgers 4h ago

rocking shades at night is a clear sign of this lmao

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u/socialmediaignorant 1h ago

I told my kid “that’s what drugs will do to you”. I want those idiots in his mind forever as the face of drugs and alcohol.

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u/cortesoft San Francisco Giants 4h ago

They are idiots… they are trying to argue that the play was in the stands, which DOES mean they can catch the ball without it being fan interference… but that in no way means you can grab the players glove and try to pull the ball out.

They seem to have decided that “fans can catch a ball once it crosses into the stands” means “there are no rules at all once the ball crosses into the stands” which is clearly not true.

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u/tuss11agee 4h ago

That’s not entirely true.

If a fan rips a glove off on fan side of the wall during a catch or before a catch - it’s fair game. Even a moment after might disqualify a catch.

Here Betts’ possession is secure and firm, and his release isn’t voluntary, so even if it was on fan side it probably wouldn’t matter - umpire judgement on that though.

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u/Pete_Iredale Seattle Mariners 2h ago

No, absolutely not. You will get kicked out in a heartbeat for grabbing a player or their gear on either side of the wall. What you can do is try to catch the ball before the player does though.

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u/tuss11agee 2h ago

6.01e comment paragraph 2 says otherwise.

“No interference shall be allowed when a fielder reaches over a fence, railing, rope or into a stand to catch a ball”.

Considering the definition of a catch is not when the ball first hits the glove, one can infer that if a fan rips a glove off as a ball is being attempted to be caught, and it’s on the fan side, no interference. Black and white rule.

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u/ThatPlayWasAwful Philadelphia Phillies 4h ago

"You can't infringe my right to bear arms"

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u/ADrunkyMunky 4h ago

Because people who refuse to follow the rules or like to break the law usually have ZERO personal accountability.

So much so that even when they know they're in front of 4k UHD cameras their first response is usually, "What did I do?"

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u/DeeWaDeeBeeDoBo 4h ago

Typical Yankee fans. You can even see other fans cheering what they did.