During the incident, the fan yelled derogatory comments <\/a>toward Marte about his late mother, who was killed in a car accident in 2017. Marte was seen in tears on the field during a seventh inning pitching change, with Arizona\u2019s coaching staff asking for the fan to be ejected from the stadium.<\/p>\nAccording to a White Sox spokesperson, the security staff at the ballpark relayed that the fan was \u201cvery apologetic and remorseful after the fact, and admitted to being very inappropriate and stupid with his comments.\u201d<\/p>\n
Arizona manager Torey Lovullo and bench coach Jeff Banister asked for the fan to be removed from the game. Before Wednesday’s series finale, Lovullo said he \u201chad little bit of an interaction with the fan\u201d as he was yelling at Marte.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wasn’t getting it and was very pompous, and it didn’t sit right with me,\u201d Lovullo said. \u201cIt was just a gross comment you wouldn’t say about anybody, let alone someone who lost their mom.<\/p>\n
According to Lovullo, Marte heard the taunts during his at-bat in the top of the seventh inning, and was later consoled by his teammates on the field when he began to fight back tears during a pitching change.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just reacted as a dad would when I went out to change pitchers,\u201d Lovullo said, according to the Arizona Republic. \u201cI could see he was sobbing. It hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the Associated Press, Marte\u2019s mother Elpidia Valdez was killed in a car accident in the Dominican Republic in 2017.<\/p>\n
Marte declined to comment on the incident after the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fan who was ejected from Tuesday\u2019s game at Rate Field after heckling Diamondbacks second baseman Ketel Marte…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,1274,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-14710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-chicago-white-sox","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114746496349472088","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14710","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=14710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}