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The second base of the Arizona Diamondbacks, Ketel Marte, was crying during a launch change in the seventh input of the team’s 4-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox in the field of the rate on Tuesday.
Mars, 31, let himself be cry after a fan shouted derogatory comments about his late mother. The mother of Mars, Elpidia Valdez, died in a car accident in the Dominican Republic in 2017. The manager of the Diamondbacks, Torey Lovullo, comforted the crying Mars in the mound and surrounded her arm during the launch change.
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The second base of the Diamondbacks of the Arizona, Ketel Marte, #4, the Hugs pitcher, Eduardo RodrÃguez, #57, in the shelter after a home run against the Chicago White Sox during the fourth entrance in the field of the rate on June 23, 2025 in Chicago. (Matt Marton-Imagn images)
Lovullo said he listened to what the fan said towards Mars, and a Diamondback spokesman told the Republic of Arizona that Lovullo and the banking coach Jeff Banis asked that the person be withdrawn from the game.
“It was a terrible moment, fans are unpleasant, fans go too far,” said a lovullo to journalists after the game. “I simply reacted when I was a father when I went out to change the pitchers,” Lovullo said, according to the Republic of Arizona. “I could see that I was sobbing. It hurt.”
Lovullo added that he told Mars that he was not alone and that the Heckler was “an idiot.”
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The Arizona Diamondback Campocorto, Geraldo Perdomo, #2, and the second base Ketel Mars, #4, celebrate after defeating Chicago’s white socks in the field of the rate on June 24, 2025 in Chicago. (Images Patrick Gorski-Imagn)
Lovullo said he loves all his players and will protect them.
“I know Ketel for nine years, and he has had some incredibly great moments and some difficulties and some really difficult moments in his life and I know them. At the end of the day, we are human beings, and we have emotions and I saw him sore, and wanted to protect him.”
The Diamondbacks campocorto, Geraldo Perdomo, said the fanatic “should be prohibited, sure.”
“That can’t happen,” Perdomo said. “We can’t keep doing that … here in MLB.”
Mars declined to comment on the incident through a team official.
The second base of the Diamondbacks of the Arizona, Ketel Mars, #4, surrounds the bases and celebrates its homer during the first entrance against the white socks of Chicago in the field of the rate on June 24, 2025 in Chicago. (Images Patrick Gorski-Imagn)
Mars was 2-4 in the victory, with a solitary home run of first entry that gave the diamondbacks a 1-0 advantage. Mars is having once again an excellent season with the diamondbacks.
In 52 games, the two-time two times has an .316 batting average with 14 homers and 31 ranges.
The diamondbacks (41-38) play the white socks (25-55) play the final game of their three-game series at 2:10 pm et on Wednesday. The diamondbacks go for the sweeping of the series, since they won the first two games in the series.
