Jurickson Profar had an eventful day at work Sunday.
The San Diego Padres’ left fielder robbed a house run early in Sport 2 of the Nationwide League Division Collection at Dodger Stadium. Later within the Padres’ 10-2 rout, he was the goal of followers hurling objects — together with baseballs — on the sector.
After the sport, clearly relishing the victory, Profar stated he wasn’t hit with any objects thrown on the sector. However the incident within the seventh inning rattled some nerves.
“If you’re standing on the sector like that then you definitely begin throwing in the back of your head, it is a bit of scary,” Profar stated.
Umpires escorted Profar and the Padres’ different outfielders, Jackson Merrill and Fernando Tatis Jr., towards he infield as Dodger Stadium safety tried to calm the melee. The sport was delayed for 10 minutes.
Profar advised MLB Community it wasn’t the primary time he had been the goal of followers throwing objects on the sector.
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“Sport 1, I feel (the followers) wished to do it however they had been profitable so that they stopped,” Profar stated. “I feel in Sport 1 if we had been profitable they might’ve completed the identical.”
Throughout Sport 1 of the collection, which the Dodgers gained 7-5, two followers had been accosted and escorted off the sector by stadium safety after getting into from the stands in left discipline. Two different followers sitting within the entrance row of seats within the left-field nook had been faraway from their seats minutes later.
Profar had a front-row seat to the entire shenanigans, and supplied a pointed comparability between Dodger followers and Padre followers.
“We’re not throwing stuff on the sector,” he advised MLB Community. “San Diego followers, we do not do this. We simply cheer.”
Padres supervisor Mike Shildt advised Fox Sports activities’ Ken Rosenthal that he wished the gamers escorted away from the outfield bleacher merely to verify they had been protected.
Chatting with reporters in a postgame press convention, Shildt referred to as the incident “unacceptable.”
Mike Shildt calls followers throwing objects on the sector “unacceptable”. Says he expects the followers at Petco Park will “keep stylish, San Diego”
— Ben Higgins (@BenHigginsSD) October 7, 2024
Mookie Betts thought he had hit a house run within the backside of the primary inning when Profar jumped into the stands to catch the ball above the outstretched arms of a bunch of followers.
“I all the time wished to do this,” Profar advised MLB Community. “That was on my thoughts: I wished to rob a homer, and I did it within the playoffs. That was superior.”
Profar stated he did not say something to the followers after. He merely stood in place, hopping, feigning as if the ball was within the stands earlier than throwing it again to the infield.
Maybe that provoked the followers’ ire, however throwing objects on the sector crossed a line. The collection will solely shift again to Dodger Stadium if the best-of-five collection goes the gap.
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