The Astros fan says he snatched the ball from the Mike Trout glove trying to protect his son: “He was coming to my son’s face”
HOUSTON – A fan of Astros was transferred to several places after tearing a ball from the Mike Tout glove on a dirty ball that went in the front row of the seats of the right field.
The game strangely remembered the notorious foul accident during game 4 of the World Series of 2024, when a New York Yankees fan I took a ball from the Los Angeles Dodgers glove, the right defender Mookie Betts.
“I didn’t know what was going on,” said Astros fan, Jared Whalen Atletico From Concourse Daikin Park while he was joined by security. “I did not realize that it was a comedy, he was coming to my son’s face. I just lengthened my hand.”
A fan torn the ball from the Mike Tout glove and the referees governed him a dirty ball. pic.twitter.com/dhl4oonesb
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The fan was almost immediately escorted from his place, leaving his young son with the security of the team. Shortly thereafter, the Astros fans in the section whistled wildly while the son was escorted by the safety outside the section, to gather with his father.
The comedy arrived in the second inning Saturday, when Yainer Diaz scated a disgusting popup along the line of the right field. Trout stretched out his hand on the padding with the ball apparently fixed in his glove. However, Whalen reached him and did it in a shirt.
The trout reacted immediately, mentioning an interference call. However, the referees established that, since the contact was started out of the game, no interference has occurred. Manager Ron Washington also came out to discuss the game with the referees.
Whalen seemed disconcerted by the immediate consequences, completely unaware of the implications of what he had done.
“I was more looking at the ball that came to my son’s face,” said Whalen. “I secured I am not in the playing field.
“I apologized and (trout) I nodded my head and we are good, I think.”
Whalen kept the ball. He said he knew about the comedy involving Austin Capobianco, the fan of the Yankees at the center of the moment of the viral world series. Capobianco is currently prohibited by all 30 parks of the Major League.
Houston’s safety on the scene said that the decision to expel the fan in the end rested with Astros and the Major League baseball. Whalen noticed that by following the game, his phone buzzed with numerous friends and family that recognizes him.
Whalen said he didn’t feel like this comedy was the same as that moment Yankees-Dodgers. He said he would like to think of himself more in the vein of Jeffrey Maier, the Yankees fan then 12 years old whose (not called) interference gave New York to a race at home in game 1 of the 1996 American League championship series.
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