Yankees fans ejected after prying ball out of Mookie Betts’ glove at World Series

Two fans astatine Yankee Stadium were ejected from Game 4 of the World Series aft 1 pried a foul shot retired of the glove of Los Angeles Dodgers close fielder Mookie Betts connected Tuesday night.

Betts leaped astatine the partition successful foul territory and initially caught Gleyber Torres’ popular up successful the archetypal inning, but a instrumentality successful the archetypal enactment with a grey Yankees’ roadworthy jersey grabbed Betts’ mitt with some hands and pulled the shot out. Another instrumentality grabbed Betts’ non-glove hand.

Betts reacted angrily, and Torres was instantly called retired connected instrumentality interference.

“When it comes to the idiosyncratic successful play, it doesn’t matter,” Betts said. “We lost. It’s irrelevant. I’m fine. He’s fine. Everything’s cool. We mislaid the crippled and that’s what I’m benignant of focused on. We got to crook the leafage and get acceptable for tomorrow.”

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The Dodgers had a two-run pb astatine the clip connected Freddie Freeman’s two-run homer, but the Dodgers were incapable to implicit a expanse and took an 11-4 nonaccomplishment to the Yankees.

“I’ve ne'er seen thing similar it,” said Dodgers rookie pitcher Ben Casparius. “It’s beauteous interesting. It was evidently precise aboriginal successful the crippled truthful I deliberation it benignant of acceptable the tone.”

It was the 2nd clip Torres had an at-bat impacted by instrumentality interference this World Series. With 2 outs successful the ninth inning of Game 1 astatine Dodger Stadium, Torres deed a alert shot to near field, and a instrumentality reached implicit and caught the ball. Torres was awarded a double.

Torres aboriginal deed a three-run homer to close tract for New York’s last runs.