This is really appalling and disturbing.
Saturday, April 23, 2022
Start Time: 1:05 p.m. Local
Attendance: 39,180
Venue: Yankee Stadium III
Game Duration: 2:50
Day Game, on grass
Yankees 5, Cleveland baseball team 4
The Yankees scored two runs in the bottom of the 9th with two out to come from behind and win the game.
Steven Kwan
Position: Leftfielder
Bats: Left • Throws: Left
5-9, 170lb (175cm, 77kg)
Team: Cleveland (majors)
Born: September 5, 1997
Rookie Status: Still Intact through 2022
Debut: April 7, 2022
Bottom of the 9th inning, two out, runner at second base. Two strikes on the batter, Isiah Kiner-Falefa, who drives the ball to deep left. Steven Kwan races back and tries to make a game ending catch against the wall. Kwan crashes into the wall but does not catch the ball. It's an RBI double. The game is tied but Kwan is down and stunned. He gets medical attention and stays in the game but rather than applauding when he gets up, Kwan, we later learn, is berated by some Yankee fans closest to the action. His outfield teammates (Myles Straw CF and Oscar Mercado RF) come to his defense and engage the abusive fans. Straw even climbs the metal mesh in front of the wall and gets almost face to face with some fans. Maybe discretion would have been the better part of valor.
Gleyber Torres then pinch hits for the catcher and drives the game winning hit into right center between Straw and Mercado. As Straw and Mercado drift back towards the ball, a completely different group of Yankee fans throw stuff and verbally insult them. The Yankees interrupt their celebration to intercede between members of the Cleveland baseball team and Yankee fans in right center. The two biggest Yankees, Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton, eventually calmly gesture to the fans to settle down. Imagine if the Yankees had just lost the game.
Watch the video below and read my comments that follow.
Jomboy does a good job in his video above.
This may be the worst behavior I've seen by any fans short of a riot, much worse than that one guy in Yankee Stadium last season who threw the ball back and hit the Red Sox left fielder Alex Verdugo and got that ridiculous "banned for life" at all MLB ballparks.
Punishment Announced For Yankees Fan Who Threw Baseball July 18, 2021 by Zach Koons
Less than 24 hours later, the New York Yankees and Major League Baseball have come down hard on the perpetrator.
The Yankees announced that the fan who threw the ball at Verdugo has been banned for life, according to a team spokesman. MLB also doled out a punishment of its own, banning the individual responsible from the league’s other 29 ballparks.
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Has anything substantive been done about the 2022 incident involving the Cleveland baseball team?
And where were security guards? The closest thing were the Cleveland players and their new team name, which is not mentioned in this post.
Do not let fans sit in the first three rows of outfield seats. That reduces the chances of the vulgar behavior that Yankee fans exhibited and also eliminates fan interference on potential home runs.
Eject fans who misbehave.
Arrest fans who throw things at players or at other fans. It's assault.
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