{"id":13321,"date":"2025-06-25T11:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T11:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/13321\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T11:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T11:04:09","slug":"ketel-marte-plays-teary-eyed-after-fan-yelled-about-his-late-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/13321\/","title":{"rendered":"Ketel Marte plays teary-eyed after fan yelled about his late mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona Diamondbacks star Ketel Marte was visibly upset on the field late in Tuesday\u2019s game at the Chicago White Sox. Manager Torey Lovullo and shortstop Geraldo Perdomo consoled him at the mound during a pitching change in the seventh inning with tears in Marte\u2019s eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Lovullo and Perdomo told <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CDrottar19\/status\/1937708257868451855\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reporters<\/a> postgame that a fan at Rate Field yelled something about Marte\u2019s late mother during his at-bat in the top half of the inning, which understandably affected him.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ketel Marte visibly upset during the Dbacks pitching change. In tears. Hoping everything is ok with Ketel <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nRC97yjMdB\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/nRC97yjMdB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dalton Feely (@dfeely14) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dfeely14\/status\/1937689937958060246?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">June 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The fan was ejected from the game for the verbal abuse, the latest example of someone showing a lack of respect and empathy for athletes doing their job on the field.<\/p>\n<p>Marte\u2019s mother, Elpidia Valdez, died in a car accident in 2017, early in Marte\u2019s tenure with the Diamondbacks. Marte left the team for a period to go back home to the Dominican Republic. He was only 23 years old at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a terrible moment,\u201d Lovullo said. \u201cFans are nasty and fans go too far sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here\u2019s the initial explanation from \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dbacks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@Dbacks<\/a>\u2069 Manager Torey Lovullo re the incident in Chicago where a \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/whitesox?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@whitesox<\/a>\u2069 fan verbally abused Ketel Marte. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UZnwssmxfz\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/UZnwssmxfz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Todd Walsh (@ToddWalsh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ToddWalsh\/status\/1937722470401757635?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">June 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Diamondbacks defeated the White Sox, 4-1. Marte hit a home run in the first inning.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexjweiner\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @alexjweiner<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arizona Diamondbacks star Ketel Marte was visibly upset on the field late in Tuesday\u2019s game at the Chicago&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1846,316,1845,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-13321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-arizona-sports-now-on-98-7-fm","9":"tag-home","10":"tag-phoenix-arizona-sports-news-phoenix-breaking-sports-news","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114743677357932755","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}