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Wendell Pierce seethes as unruly fans force him to leave the Yankees game early

Wendell Pierce seethes as unruly fans force him to leave the Yankees game early

Fans at Yankee Stadium seem incapable of behaving badly, forcing a well-known actor to leave Game 5 early.

Wendell Pierce, who appeared on “The Wire” and “Jack Ryan,” told X that he left the Yankees-Dodgers World Series game in The Bronx because he was talking to a Dodgers fan and “people threw things at me. ”

‘Unruly, annoying people can ruin everything’ Pierce wrote. “The worst experience ever. The game and the experience are no longer important. The spirit of sport ends with the ugliness of humanity.”

Fans in the stands react after Los Angeles Dodgers second baseman Gavin Lux strikeout during Game 5. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post

Pierce did not specify when he left or whether 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 sitting behind home plate before the game wearing a Yankees cap as the Bronx Bombers tried not to let their season slip away after falling to a 5- 0 had jumped. lead in Game 5.

“The fact that a suburbanite (sic) came to Yankee stadium to play donkey completely ruins the talent of (Gerrit) Cole throwing a no hitter in the 5th, or (Freddie) Freeman with a four-game home run streak : both in the World Series,” wrote the 60-year-old Pierce, who starred in CBS’s “Elisbeth.” “It won’t mean anything to me because all I remember are the obnoxious fans I had to avoid.”

He called it the opposite of his experience at the Olympics, where “competition is celebrated for the level of expertise.”

Actor Wendell Pierce has a difficult experience at the
Yankees-Dodgers World Series game on Wednesday night. Getty Images for ReedPop

Pierce then went even further, claiming at this point that the World Series is “over for me.”

“I don’t care what the outcome is,” he wrote. “I saw (Aaron) Judge find his swing for a home run, I saw a walk-off Grand Slam home run from Freeman. I saw a masterclass in pitching by Cole and (Jack) Flaherty. The players I will remember.”


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Pierce’s experience comes one night after Yankees fans Austin Capobianco and John Peter were kicked out of the stadium after they aggressively grabbed Mookie Betts’ arm and glove when the Dodgers outfielder caught a ball hit by Gleyber Torres in Game 4.

Aaron Judge hits a two-run homer during the first inning of the Yankees’ season-ending Game 5 loss. Robert Sabo for NY Post

The pair were banned from Yankees Stadium for Game 5 and the Yankees gave their cards to a childhood cancer patient.