Former MLB player sprints into stands at independent league game to confront heckling fan

Raudy Learn, a former Washington Nationals catcher now enjoying for the Spire Metropolis Ghost Hounds within the unbiased Atlantic League, didn’t like what he heard from a heckling fan Wednesday evening and determined to confront him within the stands. 

The incident was caught throughout the Ghost Hounds’ broadcast in a sport in opposition to the Lengthy Island Geese. 

The sport was in further innings when Learn was at first base catching a double play to finish the top of the 10th inning. 

As his staff jogged again to the dugout to attempt to erase an 11-8 deficit within the backside of the inning, Learn tossed his glove towards his teammates and ran for the stands. 

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Washington Nationals catcher Raudy Learn enters the dugout throughout a sport in opposition to the Philadelphia Phillies Sept. 25, 2019, at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. (Mark Goldman/Icon Sportswire through Getty Photographs)

Learn hopped into the stands and began making his solution to the concourse.

“One thing is occurring up on the concourse,” the play-by-play broadcaster shouted over his microphone. 

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Commercial audio got here on during the broadcast, whereas photos of the sport have been nonetheless being proven. And Learn could possibly be seen being calmed down by safety guards and others. His teammates ultimately began to get him down from the concourse and again on the sphere. 

Raudy Learn of the Washington Nationals runs the bases after hitting a two-run dwelling run within the second inning throughout a spring coaching sport in opposition to the New York Yankees at Steinbrenner Discipline Feb. 26, 2020, in Tampa, Fla. (Mark Brown/Getty Photographs)

One user on X, formally referred to as Twitter, claims the fan and his daughter have been calling Learn “barbaric” names. 

“Can I simply say I used to be at this sport and the names this dude and daughter have been calling Raudy that complete inning have been [asinine] and barbaric.”

Learn, who homered within the sixth inning, was the ultimate out after he received again on the sphere, putting out to finish the sport. 

Washington Nationals non-roster invitee catcher Raudy Learn throughout a spring coaching sport in opposition to the Houston Astros at The Ballpark of The Palm Seashores March 14, 2021, in West Palm Seashore, Fla. (Doug Murray/Icon Sportswire through Getty Photographs)

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Learn performed 14 video games within the majors in 2017 and 2019 with the Nationals, going 4-for-22 in his plate appearances.