Pittsburgh Pirates fans were really, really excited last night (just check out that scene above!). For the first time in more than two decades, their team appeared in an MLB Playoffs game. And they actually won, beating the Cincinnati Reds 6-2 to advance to a divisional series against the St. Louis Cardinals. But it sounds like at least one Pirates fan got a little too amped up during the NL Wild Card game.
According to Dallas Latos, the wife of Reds pitcher Mat Latos, a Pirates fan assaulted her during the game. Like, dragged by her hair, punched in the head, and gave her a full-out beatdown. And as the game was going on, she took to her Twitter account to reveal that, although she was assaulted, the security at Pittsburgh's PNC Park was absolutely no help and told her that they couldn't do anything for her. Check out her full account of what allegedly happened through a series of tweets that she sent out last night:
Got punched in the head at least 3 times by a pirates fan so this has been cool.
Spent most of the game talking to police. Fancy is one word that comes to mind.
Pittsburgh police can’t arrest anyone on assault accounts so I’m the one who spent the game talking to law enforcement after being attacked.
All the pirates fans trolling my account & making jokes about this are sick.
Hey- I box for fun & didn’t even swing back bc it was so uncalled for. just blocked my head bc that’s what was attacked. Who does that?!
Pretty sure all the ball-less nerds who made videos will be posting them on you tube soon.
Look. Check the police report. I was ambushed in the Budweiser bar, grabbed by the hair, drug down & punched in the head multiple times.
I’m “fine” but my head hurts. Never swung back bc I was trying to protect myself. Will go to the doc when we get back. :/
A huge man called me a cunt & said he was going to kick my ass so I told security. His chick is who threatened me & then attacked me.
Just know that security knew I had been threatened multiple times (not even wearing Cincy gear), chose not to take action & I got attacked.
Every opportunity was given to pirates security to deal with this before it happened. Unbelievable.
The police conveniently didn’t hear me getting threatened that I was going to get my ass beat as I walked into the security office. So cute.
Only said something bc I’m shocked by how shitty that was handled by PNC security. Beyond.
& for everyone saying I started it, I asked a huge dude to stop being mean to Meso’s grandma & he threatened to beat me so I told security.
Thanks to most of you for your well wishes. No thanks to a lot of you for being awful humans.
Thanks to the pirates fan who saw it happen & apologized. Not condemning you as a group at all. That was simply wild.
If you wanna puke, read my mentions. Otherwise, enjoy your evening as I will try to.
Sounds...intense. We understand Pirates fans being fired up for their team's big game. But if what Latos says happened actually did happen (someone out there has the incident on video, right?), the Pirates fan who beat her up deserves to be punished. It's one thing to act a fool by cheering wildly for your team. But it's quite another to physically assault the wife of an opposing player.
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[via Larry Brown Sports]
