A fan in Cubs gear ended up on the field in the bottom of the ninth inning of Wednesday night’s game between the Orioles and Cubs at Camden Yards in Baltimore, resulting in the woman being escorted off by police.
Former Mets slugger and current Orioles first baseman Pete Alonso was at the plate with two outs when home plate umpire Adrian Johnson had to pause the game after noticing the fan on the field along the left field warning track.
It wasn’t clear from the broadcast footage how she ended up there, but at first she seemed to be as confused as just about everyone else before she started to jokingly dance around and raise her arms.
The act did not sit well with the fans at Camden Yards, who started to boo her.
Video shot by the Baltimore Sun and a photo from the Associated Press showed the fan being walked off the field by a member of the ballpark’s security team, with his arm around her shoulders, before she was handed off to a uniformed police officer who escorted her off the field behind home plate.
She received further boos and jeers as she walked toward the exit behind home plate.
“Everybody’s gonna leave the ballpark tonight, and you’d rather not leave it in handcuffs, but that will be the case for one fan at least,” Orioles play-by-play announcer Kevin Brown said during the incident.
The game was only briefly delayed, and after play resumed, Alonso hit a roller along the first base line that was caught by Cubs first baseman Michael Busch for the final out of the game in a 9-7 Chicago victory.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
