New Footage Reveals How Issues Between Jurickson Profar, Dodgers Fans Boiled Over in NLDS Game 2
A video filmed by a fan that sat in the left field pavilion at Dodger Stadium on Sunday night showed how the issues between Dodgers fans and Padres outfielder Jurickson Profar began.
The video shows Profar handing a baseball to a fan. The fan proceeded to throw the baseball back onto the field. Then, another fan in the left field pavilion threw a baseball that landed right in front of Profar.
“If you really wanna know what went down! It was all in good fun,” the fan wrote on an Instagram post. “Profar came and gave the ball to my cousin which he robbed the home run from in front of. And my cousin threw it back!”
The issues really began in the first inning after Profar robbed Mookie Betts of a game-tying homer. Profar chose to look toward the crowd as Betts ran the bases and the rest of Dodger Stadium waited to see if the ball had been caught.
Then tensions erupted in the sixth inning. Fans began throwing objects towards the Padres outfielders. After the second ball was thrown, Profar was escorted toward the edge of the infield by an umpire. A 12-minute delay followed.
Profar’s teammates joined together along with manager Mike Shildt as the public address announcer reminded fans to stop throwing objects on the field.
It was a low point for the fans, but it only confirmed that the rivalry with San Diego is alive and real. Gone are the days of the dominant Dodgers in the National League West, as there’s another dangerous team in the division.
“I feel like the rivalry, it’s good for baseball,” Miguel Rojas told Jeff Fletcher of The Orange County Register. “Everybody’s excited about this series. Both fan bases want to win. We understand that it’s part of a big sporting event, 54,000 people. A lot of fans and all that. But we as a team, we have to play better baseball. It’s not about if we do something on the field with the fan base and all that. The game has to be played on the field and we have to overcome this one and win two more games.”
If this series goes to a decisive fifth game, Profar and the Padres will return to Dodger Stadium for one final time this season.
Photo Credit: Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images
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My grandson and I went to the Stadium years ago and encountered the ugly fan. The drunk before he got to the game type of ugly. He was all decked out in Dodger blue (hat, Fernando jersey) and sitting with his wife or girlfriend. He was so drunk you could smell the alcohol from 4 rows away. He had nothing better to do than yell yang at Adrian Beltre. Thankfully someone complained and security escorted him and his embarrassed lady from Dodger Stadium. I can imagine what the ugliness was like yesterday.
Nobody is going to accuse Profar of being classy. He acts like a 5 year old brat, taunting people and trying to stir it up, then throws a tantrum when the people he was taunting react. From what I saw and read, the ball landed by him. Landed, not like a 95 MPH heater so close to his head he could hear the whistle. He is at once a highly skilled Baseball player, and an immature brat at the same time. Don’t want people to throw stuff at you, don’t taunt them and try to stir them up. But I guess that concept is a bit beyond Profar’s intellectual grasp.
100%
Although I agree, we can’t have this position and then have Roberts whine about Machado bouncing a ball into the Dodger dugout and claiming Machado was throwing at him and sending video to MLB. It’s all a bit childish.
Profar absolutely was in the wrong the way he handled that situation. Act like you’ve been there not like a teenager. You made a great catch and you turned a wonderful play into a mockery. You’re no more than a junior high schooler playing a game and that’s exactly what it is a game. I believe the problem with the Padres and the way their players act is absolutely the fault of management. This all started when the dodgers refused to have contract negotiations with Manny Machado the year he became a free agent after he came over.