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The manager of Arizona Diamondbacks, Torey Lovullo, jumped using the second basic player Ketel Marte after a fan ridiculed the late mother, According to mlb.com.
The incident occurred when the Diamondbacks played the Chicago White Sox at the Chicago rate field on June 24. Lovullo put his arm around Marte, who could be seen in tears During a change of pitching at the bottom of the seventh round, while the Second Second Geraldo Perceomo stood next. He was not clear at that time what had turned Marte, whose mother Died in a car accident in 2017.
After the match, Lovullo said he heard what the fan, who was watching Marte directly. Lovullo has chosen not to repeat it, According to the Republic of Arizona.
“I watched it right when I heard,” said Lovullo. “I looked at him straight and he also looked at the person. He lowered his head and I could say that it had an immediate impact on him, for sure. ”
“I just reacted as a father would do it when I went out to change launchers,” added Lovullo. “I could see that he was sobbing. It hurt. ”
MLB.com reported that the fan had been ejected from the game, that the diamondbacks won, 4-1. Marte, 31, is an All-Star twice that hit a home run during the first round to help his team.
“(I said to him):” I love you and I am with you and we are all together and you are not alone “, said Lovullo about the incident with the fan in an interview with the journalist of Diamondbacks, Todd Walsh, after the match. “No matter what’s going on, no matter what has been said, or what you heard, this guy is an idiot. It shouldn’t have an impact on you.” “”
Lovullo also said that he was his duty to join his players.
“It was a terrible moment,” he said. “Fans are mean, and fans go too far, sometimes. And I like my players, and I’m going to protect them.”
“I have known Ketel for nine years, and he had incredibly great moments and difficulties too, and really, really difficult moments in his life,” he added. “And I know them. In the end, we are human beings and we have emotions. I saw him hurt and wanted to protect him. ”
Lovullo also said there were limits to the types of things that players can endure.
“We can take a lot. We register and we are in uniform to take a lot,” he said, according to MLB.com. “We are ready for that. But when you cross a line – and it is a very firm and daring line – we become human beings.
Marte did not comment on the issue after the match, according to the Republic of Arizona, but Perdomo said that fans’ behavior is a problem that must be solved.
“Everyone knows that Ketel has fun, plays hard from the game, but I feel bad for him,” he said, according to Mlb.com. “I feel crazy about it. I don’t know who it was, but they must definitely do something. We cannot continue to do this (explained) here in MLB. It’s baseball, it’s for fans. They came here, they support us, but when they cross the line, we are not with that (explanative).”
