That’s a tough one to take.
Just after a 3-2 walk-off loss to the Rockies, Astros third baseman Alex Bregman fumed at his locker when he was asked about his sixth-inning triple that was overturned because of fan interference.
He had reached third base easily after crushing a ball to left-center field that bounced off Rockies left fielder Gerardo Parra’s shoulder. Rockies manager Bud Black challenged the call for fan interference, and the replay showed a fan wearing an Astros jersey reaching over the fence with his glove and altering the path of the ball.
MLB rules say a batter is out “if spectator interference clearly prevents a fielder from catching a fly ball.” Bregman was called out, and the fan was ejected from Coors Field.
J.D. Davis hit a single up the middle in the next at-bat, which would have scored Bregman if he had been on third base.
Bregman’s postgame rant included a string of expletives targeted at the umpires.
“It was a f—ing joke, and they should be f—ing ashamed of themselves,” he told reporters, via ESPN. “Obviously the guy has never played f–king baseball before in his life, the guy in charge of whoever made the decision. There is no possible way you can say that a left fielder jumping backwards into a wall is guaranteed to make a catch.
“It changed the whole f—king game. We’re up 2-1 at the time, I’m at third base. We need a fly ball to the outfield to get me in, and it’s 3-1. It’s f–king horrible.”
Parra said he didn’t see the fan but was surprised the ball changed direction.
“It almost hit me in the face,” Parra told reporters after the game. “I thought, ‘What happened?’ At the last second, the ball moved. I never saw the fan touch the ball until I saw the replay, but I feel I would have had that ball.”
The Rockies tied the game at two in the seventh inning when Raimel Tapia sprinted home as Davis tumbled into the Astros’ dugout to catch a foul ball.
Charlie Blackmon later crushed a game-winning home run in the bottom of the ninth.


