Red Sox outfielder Alex Verdugo was hit in the back by a baseball thrown by a rogue fan Saturday night - forcing the game against Boston to be briefly aborted.
The 25-year-old was seen shouting into the stands after the incident, before Boston manager Alex Cora took his team off the field for several minutes.
'It felt like it was targeted towards me and it don't sit well with me,' said Verdugo, who had to be restrained by first base coach Tom Goodwin.
Red Sox outfielder Alex Verdugo is walked off the field by manager Alex Cora after a fan threw an object at him during the sixth inning against the New York Yankees
Cora briefly pulled his players off the field, and the game resumed after a discussion with umpires near Boston's dugout.
'This is just a game,' Cora said afterwards.
'It's a game. It's not life and death and it´s not this drama, and the fact that people come to the ballpark and they decided to throw a baseball (at) one of the players, I was in shock that that happened.'
Verdugo said he threw the ball into the stands to a young Red Sox fan, but a Yankees fan intercepted it and threw it back onto the field and hit Verdugo.
'It's awful, embarrassing, unacceptable,' Yankees manager Aaron Boone said.
The contest was also interrupted by heavy rain before the Yankees eventually beat the Red Sox 3-1.
Gary Sánchez and Gleyber Torres hit back-to-back homers in the sixth off Hirokazu Sawamura (4-1) as the Yankees topped their longtime rivals for the first time in eight meetings this year. It was their first victory over Boston in nine tries since Sept. 19.
'I thought it was a big win,' pitcher Gerrit Cole said. 'I thought out of the seven losses to this point, there were a few games that we were in, maybe even could have finished off with a W.'
The 25-year-old was seen shouting into the stands after the incident, which saw the guilty fan led away by security
'It felt like it was targeted towards me and it don't sit well with me,' said Verdugo, who had to be restrained by
