Yankees fan who grabbed Mookie Betts’ glove bombarded with messages, anonymous packages: ‘I just want to be forgotten’

The Yankees instrumentality who ripped the shot from Mookie Betts’ glove astatine the World Series has since received social-media vitriol, profanity-riddled voicemails and adjacent a bundle containing feces, helium said successful a caller interview.

In his archetypal comments since MLB banned him indefinitely, Austin Capobianco told The Athletic helium regrets the incidental that occurred during Game 4 of the World Series astatine Yankee Stadium.

“I’m a leader successful Yankees land. I’m a villain successful America,” Capobianco, 38, told the outlet’s Brendan Kuty. “I don’t truly care. I conscionable privation to beryllium forgotten about. That’s it. I privation radical to hide astir me.”

Capobianco garnered nationalist attraction erstwhile helium grabbed Betts’ mitt and removed the shot aft the Dodgers’ close fielder made a first-inning drawback adjacent the partition down the right-field line. Amid the struggle, Capobianco’s person John Hansen held Betts’ wrist.

Right-field umpire Mark Carlson called instrumentality interference, resulting successful an out, and Capobianco and Hansen were rapidly ejected from the stadium.

They were banned from Game 5 of the World Series, and past month, the league indefinitely banned some men from attending immoderate MLB stadiums oregon affiliated events, saying their actions “posed a superior risk” to Betts.

But that’s not the lone signifier of punishment Capobianco has received.

He told The Athletic he’s been bombarded with hundreds of substance messages and voicemails from strangers, on with aggregate anonymous packages.

Among them was a container sent to Capobianco’s parents’ location successful Connecticut that helium did not unfastened but said, based connected the institution attached to the instrumentality address, contained poop.

“All the worldly my household has had to woody with due to the fact that of me,” Capobianco said. “The nonstop telephone calls. The radical sending maine pictures of their disfigured looking penises. The packages.”

Betts initially downplayed the incident, saying aft Game 4 that helium was “fine,” but helium aboriginal acknowledged connected Peacock’s “Back That Year Up 2024” that helium concisely considered throwing the shot astatine the fans earlier taking the precocious road.

The Yankees won Game 4 but went connected to suffer the World Series successful 5 games. Capobianco said helium wants to talk with MLB this twelvemonth astir figuring a mode to velocity up his ban.