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Marlins’ Dane Myers’s wild day vs. Red Sox included hearing jeers from Fenway Park bleachers, leading to a fan’s ejection
“I wouldn’t ever go into the stands or do anything like that. Just kind of letting them know I’m a person, too. I’m a human, too, so I want some respect as well.”
Miami Marlins outfielder Dane Myers experienced an eventful game at Fenway Park during Sunday’s game against the Red Sox.
He nearly robbed Boston’s Wilyer Abreu of a two-run home run in the fourth inning, catching the ball with his glove before dropping it into the visitor’s bullpen in right field upon crashing into the wall. The long ball gave the Red Sox a 2-1 lead at the time.
Then, in the top of the ninth with Myers’s Marlins trailing by one run, he hit a homer of his own. It was a game-tying solo HR off of Boston relief pitcher Greg Weissert that aided in Miami’s 5-3 comeback victory against the Red Sox.
However, in the final two innings of Sunday’s contest, Myers said he was heckled by fans in the right field bleachers. He says spectators began jeering him when Boston led 3-2 in the eighth, and then he received foul comments following his game-tying home run.
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One fan in particular was ejected from the ballgame with help from Fenway security.
“Maybe so,” Myers said when asked if the fan said something inappropriate (via the Associated Press’s Ken Powtak). “I don’t really want to get into that. Probably drinking some beers out there, having a good time. It’s a baseball game. I won’t get into necessarily what I heard exactly. It’s part of the game. I think I need to be a pro and probably handle it just a little bit better.”
Myers didn’t specify what the fan verbally hurled at him, but he said it crossed a line and he took offense.
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“I won’t necessarily get into exactly what I heard,” Myers said. “But I basically said, ‘Would you be saying this if you’re on the field right in my face?’ It was basically the one guy, and it kind of got the whole section going.
“I don’t like to interact with fans in that way all the time. They’re fans, so I respect that they have the right to talk and say what they want. I don’t ever want it to go south, kind of like it did.”
One fan in attendance shared a clip on X capturing Myers’s interaction with rowdy fans in the bleachers. Two security members joined the 29-year-old in right field as the crowd heavily booed him between innings.
Nevertheless, Myers, who is batting .237 with a .631 OPS on the season, was happy to help his team avoid the sweep with his home run.
“Haven’t been coming through for the team, I feel like, as of late. But a lot of support from the team, a lot of support from the staff, so to be able to come through in that moment felt good,” he told Marlins Radio Network‘s Stephen Strom after the game.
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