{"id":14113,"date":"2025-06-25T17:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/14113\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:51:11","slug":"chicago-white-sox-ban-fan-who-brought-ketel-marte-to-tears-with-taunt-about-late-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/14113\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago White Sox ban fan who brought Ketel Marte to tears with taunt about late mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                   CBS News Live <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/keyart-cbs-sports-hq-1920x1080.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live\/cbs-sports-hq\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>          CBS Sports HQ<\/p>\n<p>          Live<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Chicago White Sox have indefinitely banned a fan from their home games after he brought <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ketel-marte-cries-mlb-star-fan-taunts-him-late-mother\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Arizona Diamondbacks&#8217; Ketel Marte <\/a>to tears after heckling him about his late mother.<\/p>\n<p>Marte was seen in tears on the field after a spectator yelled a derogatory comment about his mother, Elpidia Valdez, who died in a car rash in the Dominican Republic in 2017. Marte was visibly upset during a pitchng change at the bottom of the seventh inning, and manager Torey Lovullo was seen consoling him with an arm around him.<\/p>\n<p>Lovullo and bench coast Jeff Banister asked for the fan to be removed. The White Sox confirmed Wednesday the fan was ejected from the game and has been banned indefinitely.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Marte declined to comment on the incident through a team official. Diamondbacks shortstop Geraldo Perdomo said the fan &#8220;should be banned, for sure&#8221; and called for Major League Baseball to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That can&#8217;t happen,&#8221; Perdomo said. &#8220;We can&#8217;t continue to do that &#8230; here in MLB.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the fan has not been identified, White Sox manager Will Venable discussed the incident Wednesday morning at a media availability.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No player should ever have to be subjected to that kind of stuff from fans,&#8221; Venable said. &#8220;That&#8217;s not reflective of anything that I&#8217;ve seen from these White Sox fans. They&#8217;ve been extremely positive and extremely supportive, and for Ketel to have to experience that is extremely disappointing. I sent my apologies over to them last night, and I know a number of us have apologized, again, for what is not representative of how our fans behave, and something that no player should be subjected to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the team&#8217;s response, Venable simply replied, &#8220;Anybody who is engaged in that kind of stuff is not going to be welcome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The White Sox and Diamondbacks play again at The Rate Wednesday afternoon at 1:10 p.m. CT., the second in a two-game series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n<p>                      The Associated  Press<\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/sara-tenenbaum\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sara  Tenenbaum<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Sara Tenenbaum is the Senior Digital Producer for CBS News Chicago covering breaking, local and community news in Chicago. 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