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A fan attending Saturday night's Tampa Bay-Pittsburgh game in Bradenton, Florida, was arrested after charging the field and throwing two bottles into the Rays dugout in an apparent protest of the team's trip to Cuba earlier this week.
Bradenton police arrested a man of Cuban descent in the top of the seventh inning at McKechnie Field and charged him with trespassing, assault and starting affray, Lt. John Affolter said.
"I've worked games here for 23 years and I've never seen anything like it," Affolter said. "I've seen a streaker, I've seen a lot. I thought I'd seen it all."
The fan, who police did not identify, was yelling in Spanish about the team's trip to Cuba, shouting obscenities about the Castro regime. The fan threw an aluminum beer bottle and a Pepsi bottle into Tampa Bay's dugout, one of which exploded on the back wall.
Source: ESPN
Bradenton police arrested a man of Cuban descent in the top of the seventh inning at McKechnie Field and charged him with trespassing, assault and starting affray, Lt. John Affolter said.
"I've worked games here for 23 years and I've never seen anything like it," Affolter said. "I've seen a streaker, I've seen a lot. I thought I'd seen it all."
The fan, who police did not identify, was yelling in Spanish about the team's trip to Cuba, shouting obscenities about the Castro regime. The fan threw an aluminum beer bottle and a Pepsi bottle into Tampa Bay's dugout, one of which exploded on the back wall.
Source: ESPN