Actor Wendell Pierce fumes as unruly fans force him to leave Yankees game early: Ugliness of humanity
Fans at Yankee Stadium appear unable to stop behaving badly — forcing a well-known actor to leave Game 5 early.Wendell Pierce, who has appeared in “The Wire” and “Jack Ryan” took to X to say he left the Yankees-Dodgers World Series game in The Bronx because he was talking to a Dodgers fan and “people were throwing things at me.”“Unruly, obnoxious people can ruin everything,” Pierce wrote.“The worst experience ever.
The game and experience is of no significance now.The spirit of sports ends with the ugliness of humanity.”Pierce did not specify when he left, nor if the fans in question were Yankees fans.That experience appears to have ruined the entire World Series for the actor, who posted a video of himself pregame sitting behind home plate with a Yankees cap on as the Bronx Bombers tried to not let their season slip away after jumping out to a 5-0 lead in Game 5.“The fact that some suburban who ha’s [sic] come to Yankee stadium to act an ass, completely ruins the artistry of [Gerrit] Cole pitching a no hitter into the 5th, or [Freddie] Freeman with a 4 game consecutive home run streak: both in the World Series,” wrote the 60-year-old Pierce, who starring in CBS’s “Elisbeth.” “It will mean nothing to me because all I remember will be the obnoxious fans I had to avoid.”He called it the complete opposite of his experience at the Olympics, where “competition is celebrated because of the level of expertise.”Pierce then took things even further, claiming at the moment that the World Series is “over for me.” “I could care less about its outcome,” he wrote.
“ I saw [Aaron] Judge find his swing for a homerun, I saw a walk off Grand Slam homerun by Freeman.I saw a masterclass in pitching by Cole and [Jack] Flaherty.
The players I will remember.”Pierce’s experience comes one night after Yankees fans Austin Capobianco and John Peter were ejected from the Stadium after they aggressively grabbed Mookie Betts’ arm an...