D-backs’ Ketel Marte says fan shouted he messaged late mom

Arizona Diamondbacks second baseman Ketel Marte mentioned a fan in Chicago who introduced him to tears throughout a recreation towards the White Sox this week shouted that he messaged his late mom the earlier evening.

The 2-time All-Star revealed what was mentioned throughout an interview Friday with Spanish-language journalist Yancen Pujols.

“A fan was up on the dugout shouting issues about my mom,” he mentioned. “He was like, ‘Final evening I despatched a message to your mom.'”

Marte was seen in tears on the sector after the 22-year-old spectator yelled a derogatory remark about Marte’s late mom throughout a seventh-inning at-bat in Arizona’s 4-1 win over Chicago on Tuesday evening. Main League Baseball banned the fan indefinitely from all stadiums the next day.

Marte’s mom, Elpidia Valdez, died in a automobile accident within the Dominican Republic in 2017. He mentioned he is used to being taunted however had by no means been heckled about his mother. He mentioned what made it extra painful for him was the Diamondbacks had been in Chicago to play the Cubs when she died.

“We now have to do one thing in regards to the followers; they are going too far,” he mentioned. “They all the time shout issues about me, however not about my mom. Everybody is aware of that my mom died in an accident. And nothing. We’re praying for him, for the man who shouted, and for his household, ? Might God shield him. Might God shield him and cleanse his coronary heart. They all the time shout issues at me however I do not concentrate, however once they discuss my mom, it is a completely different story.”