Houston Astros manager AJ Hinch is not messing around when it comes to the environment at Yankee Stadium for the ALCS.
Astros outfielder Josh Reddick complained after Game 3 of the ALCS Tuesday that fans were throwing things onto the field after an overturned call went against the Yankees in the eighth inning. Reddick thought it was a safety concern.
“You throw a baseball hard enough and hit somebody in the head when they’re not looking, it could do some damage to the player, so it’s definitely disrespectful and at the same time very unsafe,” Reddick said.
Hinch backed Reddick and said before Game 4 on Thursday that he would pull his players off the field if that sort of thing happened again.
AJ Hinch on those Yankee fans who are making the environment dangerous for his players: “I will pull the team off the field if we get in that situation again where bottles are being thrown and balls are being thrown and it becomes unruly.” #Astros pic.twitter.com/y3zDycGr5r
— Mark Berman (@MarkBermanFox26) October 17, 2019
“MLB’s aware. I will pull the team off the field if we get in that situation again,” Hinch said. “It would be a very ugly scene for baseball, a very ugly seen for the Yankees, if one of our guys was hit by something from the upper deck. Something tragic could happen and nobody wants that.”
Hinch said he has already made the league aware that he will pull his team off the field if that happens again. Expect things to be even more raucous at Yankee Stadium after this.
