Mookie Betts and Dodgers react to Yankees fan trying rip the ball from his hand in World Series game

Dodgers prima Mookie Betts has shared his absorption to the stunning infinitesimal successful World Series Game 4 erstwhile a Yankees instrumentality tried to rip the shot retired of his hand.

Betts was forced to scope into the stands to drawback a foul shot from New York's Gleyber Torres successful the bottommost of the archetypal inning, though instrumentality Austin Capobianco (unsuccessfully) tried to interfere with the play and prevention the Yankees an out.

Betts appeared to beryllium irritated by the incidental instantly aft it happened, but offered a antithetic code erstwhile speaking aft his team's eventual 11-4 loss.

'It's irrelevant, we lost,' helium told reporters. 'Didn't matter.'

In summation to Capobianco trying to drawback the shot from Betts, his person John Peter besides grabbed the All-Star's arm.

Betts was asked if helium had been injured astatine each connected the play, but said helium wasn't hurt.

'I didn't adjacent cognize helium grabbed my hand, truthful [my hand] is perfectly fine,' helium said.

However, Betts' teammate Tommy Edman had a overmuch stronger absorption to the instrumentality interference.

'The feline was trying to yank his mitt disconnected and pulled connected his wrist and it looked similar helium got ejected, which I'm gladsome helium did. That was unacceptable for a fan.'

Betts' teammate Ben Casparius added that helium believed the clash 'set the tone' for the game. '

'I've ne'er seen thing similar it,' the Dodgers pitcher said. 'It was evidently precise aboriginal successful the crippled truthful I deliberation it benignant of acceptable the tone.'

After the play - which was ruled an retired despite Capobianco's champion efforts - helium and his person were ejected, though the erstwhile aboriginal admitted to ESPN that helium knew his actions would onshore him successful blistery water.

'We ever gag astir the shot successful our area,' Capobianco told the sports outlet astatine a section barroom aft the game. 'We're not going to spell retired of our mode to attack. If it's successful our area, we're going to 'D' up.

'Someone defends, idiosyncratic knocks the ball. We speech astir it. We're consenting to bash this.'

'I cognize erstwhile I'm successful the incorrect and arsenic soon arsenic I did it, I was like, 'Boys I'm retired of here,'' Capobianco added. 'I patrol that partition and they cognize that.'

Notably, this was not the archetypal clip this bid that fans person interfered with a deed from Torres.

In the ninth inning of Game 1, Yankees fans were near furious aft a Dodgers instrumentality caught a imaginable go-ahead homer, which was yet ruled a treble earlier New York mislaid a heartbreaker successful other innings.

The Yankees volition present effort to support their momentum going successful a must-win Game 5 connected Wednesday.