Yonder Alonso on Mookie Betts - fan incident - video Dailymotion

Former 1st baseman on handling fan interference.

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00:00Of course, he had the Mookie Betts situation.

00:02I thought he did a really good job of keeping his head

00:03when those morons interfered with him

00:05and tried to rip the ball and his glove from him.

00:09And what did you think watching that, Yondra?

00:11And then secondarily, how do you think you yourself

00:13would have reacted if you were in Mookie's place?

00:17You know, a part of me reacted like anybody else did,

00:21like any other player.

00:22What are you doing?

00:24And then another part, it brought me back

00:25to like that 2003 Cubs-Marlins

00:28when the gentleman interfered with the fly ball

00:32and it led to all mayhem, right, for the Marlins and the Cubs.

00:36Luckily, that did not happen.

00:38And I'm really happy for what Major League Baseball did

00:41and for what the Yankees did.

00:42Hey, they're going to nip it in the bud, right?

00:44They're going to cut that.

00:45They're saying, hey, to the fans,

00:46we are not going to tolerate that.

00:48I thought Mookie handled that so great.

00:50But then again, are we surprised by Mookie?

00:53This is Mookie, right?

00:54Mookie does everything perfect.

00:55Mookie wakes up in the morning and says,

00:57yes, I had the perfect sleep that nobody has ever had.