Mookie Betts finally responds to Yankees fan interference and Dodgers fans will be proud

When Los Angeles Dodges outfielder Mookie Betts joined the FOX MLB Postgame Show Wednesday, just minutes after his team had launched an historic comeback to clinch a World Series title, the panel of hosts didn't just want to talk to him about what had transpired that night.

David Ortiz, in particular, was far more concerned with getting Betts' take on what had happened the night before in the first inning of the Dodgers' Game 4 loss to the New York Yankees.

In what will likely go down as one of the wildest, most shameful moments in Yankees World Series history, a pair of fans sitting in the first row of seats at Yankee Stadium pried Betts' glove open and ripped the ball out of it after he made the out on a fly ball in foul territory to send Gleyber Torres back to the dugout.

Betts was visibly heated after the interaction – and rightfully so. He could be seen yelling at the fans and pleading his case to the on-field security officers. The fans in question were ultimately ejected from the game and had their tickets to Game 5 revoked.

Mookie Betts finally responds to Yankees fan interference and Dodgers fans will be proud

Things only got worse for the Dodgers after that, as they squandered an early 2-0 lead – and an opportunity to complete the four-game sweep of the Yankees – to lose Game 4 by a final score of 11-4 . After the game, Betts had no interest in talking about the incident, calling it "irrelevant" to the final outcome. The next night, however, he finally had a response.

More than 24 hours after the incident occurred, Ortiz asked Betts what we had all been thinking: "What was going through your head, man?"

Asked the question under vastly different circumstances than he had been the night before – his team had just won the World Series, after all – Betts immediately began to laugh.

"That was really wild," Betts said. "I've never experienced anything like that. I was telling my wife, that was like the second time in my life I've ever wanted to fight someone."

It feels safe to say that Dodgers fans everywhere would have gladly joined in on that fight. Spare us the "caught up in the moment" arguments in defense of the fans who ripped the ball out of Betts' glove; it was dangerous, disrespectful and flat-out embarrassing.

But what goes around comes around, and Yankees fans got what was coming to them the very next night when their team blew a 5-0 lead in a series-clinching game for Los Angeles. As the Dodgers received their World Series trophy on the field at Yankee Stadium, we all know which fanbase got the last laugh.

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