Yankees fans throw beer cans at players, a breakdown
What Happened
In a tightly contested game between the New York Yankees and the Cleveland Guardians, the action heats up in the bottom of the ninth inning with the Guardians leading by one run. Josh Donaldson, the Yankees' leadoff hitter, works a walk against Guardians reliever Emmanuel Clase, putting the potential tying run on base. Pinch-runner Tim Locastro immediately steals second base, setting the stage for a dramatic finish. Aaron Hicks and Joey Gallo are unable to bring Locastro home, leaving it up to Yankees shortstop Isiah Kiner-Falefa. Kiner-Falefa battles against the 100 mph heat of Clase, fouling off a couple of pitches before lacing a game-tying double off the wall. Guardians center fielder Myles Straw makes a valiant effort to catch the ball, but crashes face-first into the outfield fence, injuring himself in the process. As Straw lies on the ground, a Yankees fan in the outfield is heard yelling and celebrating the injury, prompting an angry reaction from Guardians outfielder Steven Kwan. Kwan and Straw confront the fan, with Straw even attempting to climb into the stands to address the situation. The umpires intervene, trying to calm the situation and allow the game to continue. With the game now tied, the Yankees turn to pinch-hitter Gleyber Torres, who has a history of walk-off heroics. Torres steps to the plate against the hard-throwing Clase and on the first pitch, a fan in the stands throws a beer can towards Guardians outfielder Myles Straw, narrowly missing him. The Yankees go on to win the game on Torres' walk-off single, but the celebration is marred by the unruly fan behavior, as more beer cans and bottles are thrown onto the field, nearly hitting the umpires. Yankees players, including Anthony Rizzo and Gerrit Cole, attempt to calm the situation and urge the fans to stop their disruptive actions. The scene is chaotic, with a father having to shield his young daughter from the flying debris. It's a disappointing end to an otherwise thrilling game, as the Yankees' victory is overshadowed by the unacceptable actions of a minority of their fans.
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Click timestamps to jump to that momentyankees and the guardians are in a
pretty good game guardians are up by one
in the bottom of the ninth inning
donaldson leads off against clausse 99
inside ball 98 outside ball 98 outside
ball 99 low that's the lead off walk
they pinch run tim lo castro he's fast
he immediately steals second base during
hicks is at bat hicks gets out gallow
gets out they're down to their last out
and it's up to ikf 100 that's a strike
doesn't get called to strike 99 kind of
the same spot that gets called a strike
one and one's the count
fouls back the 100 mile per hour pitch
one two strike away from winning the
game but keiner falefa says no way
takes the 100 and puts it up against the
wall quan with the great effort but tilo
scores the games tied quan's busted up
kiner's ecstatic look at this effort if
he caught that would have been a
game-ending catch goes face-first into
the fence there so that's uh like just a
metal fence
and it's not a soft surface behind it
and you can see him say here one yankee
fan
yelling some ridiculous [ __ ]
celebrating the fact that he got hurt
maybe rooting for him to be more hurt
than he was and you can see mercado here
step around and go address people in the
outfield and then you can see
straw and mercado trying to defend their
buddy quan pointing out the guy who's
saying it and then straw is going to
climb the fence to get in his face and
one of the guys in the gray shirt kind
of backs up a little bit now here's
mercado and straw's take on all of this
quan was a little shaken up and had some
cuts in his face and there was a
specific yankee fan in left field that
that was uh celebrating kwon getting
hurt you can't say stuff like that
especially when someone someone gets
hurt so i just let him out i was like
listen man you can chirp all you want
but don't celebrate someone getting hurt
that's classless that shouldn't be a
thing quan is the nicest guy on the
planet that's my teammate that's my
brother and um some of the things that
were said to him just for me wasn't
going to fly so
you know my emotions got to me a little
bit but um you know at that point i feel
like as a yankees fan you got to be
excited for your team you should be
cheering and you should never pray on
someone's you know you gotta went
headfirst into a hard wall um there's no
business for
saying the things those guys said to him
and um
you know got me a little bit and i you
know i said what i said and um
i you know if i were to do it again i
probably said the same thing that's my
guy and uh
you know at that point just cheer you
know be happy your team tie the game up
and uh be a normal baseball fan and just
enjoy what's going on they can chirp all
they want but when someone's hurt just
you should you should never really talk
the way they were talking to them so
obviously we don't know what he said but
we know that the kid behind them is
throwing up
this like [ __ ] sign which maybe i mean
if you throw that up it's it pretty much
confirms that you are what you're
accusing others of being hiding behind
someone throwing that thinking it's
something and then the guy that's been
filming it and hey where's this footage
dude you have some cool footage trying
to get
like a fist bump out of him as he leaves
just a bizarre scene you can see this
woman up here she's like
why are why are we doing this and these
guys are talking [ __ ]
now who knows what straw said probably
like shut the [ __ ] up don't talk [ __ ] to
an injured player
it seems like that's what they're saying
and then these guys these these three
guys man they just couldn't be more
proud of themselves for doing nothing at
all the guy throwing up the sign stays
throwing up the sign
like he's doing something cool
just
the least cool thing he could do look
how proud of himself he is
and then he's going to throw it again
man what a loser
the umpires come over and they're like
all right you're good man calm down calm
down yeah they were wrong mercado's
talking to the other ump letting them
know like ask him ask him he'll tell you
he'll tell you what he said meanwhile
the game's still going it's tie game in
the ninth there's one out left glaber
taurus five career walk-off hits most in
mlb since 2018. he's pinch-hitting
against the dude who throws 101 on the
first pitch strike one
that's the ball out on an off speed
pitch off speed again he gets the strike
there global turn says i kindly disagree
but all i can do is smile and swing at
the next pitch hope you have a good day
blue and off speed again
pokes that through the outfielders now
watch what happens here a beer can gets
thrown at mercado just one beer can now
we're not in left field these aren't
those kids over there this is just brand
new people the yankees win and they
throw a beer can now maybe they weren't
aiming at him but it came pretty close
to him so on the bottom right you have
the yankees celebrating the win then you
have mercado
picking up a beer can another one comes
at him he catches it he's fighting with
fans yankees are celebrating beer cans
are raining down it's a weird scene it's
a bad scene
a bunch of [ __ ] yankee fans throwing
beer cans instead of celebrating we're
not talking about like two fans throwing
empty beer cans we're talking about
there's like 20 beer cans plus that end
up on the field and water bottles that
are full
that aren't like
and these ump's gonna get hit right here
by a beer can in the back
that had beer in it and then a water
bottle has water in it bumps it's just
it's [ __ ] and it's it's
i don't know
don't throw [ __ ] at players or on the
field
ever
but to do it after you win is just
pathetic because what did you buy the
ticket for then what are you there for
if your team wins via walk-off
and you and like 30 of you throw beer at
the other players you're just
and then we got another loser here going
after mercado you suck you suck you suck
his wife is grabbing his arm like stop
stop stop
you suck you suck and then he's gonna go
with the l on the forehead takes off his
hat to make sure he can see it and he's
just start screaming
l
l
loser god damn you are what you are
accusing them of being if you use these
hand signals not ironically it is so
embarrassing for you
just pathetic and look at this this dad
is like grabbing his daughter because
it's a scary scene so look what these
[ __ ] are doing if you're one of the
[ __ ] that threw beer look what you
did you almo you hit a girl and now the
dad's got to protect her and she's
scared and that's the scene after a
[ __ ] walk-off win of the team you
went to see
and they keep going now rizzo comes out
cole comes out rizzo goes straight to
mercado probably says you're good you're
good you're good coal goes and tries to
help out judge and stanton go to right
field to try and get the fans to stop
glaber's like my room my moment's ruined
pinch hit walk off
you dicks
and they're like stop stop what are you
doing
geez like that's not cool guys
it's so easy to not embarrass the rest
of your fan base and not embarrass
sports fans and not be a [ __ ]
[ __ ] or a loser it's really easy
step one don't do the [ __ ] sign or the
l on the forehead sign unless you are 12
or under or living in 1990 to 2000
step two
don't
root or clap for an injury step three
don't
throw
[ __ ] at the players
i hope all the people that threw
something
are never welcome back to yankee stadium