Major League Baseball is investigating what took place at the end of Thursday’s game between the Oakland Athletics and Los Angeles Angels after a video showed Anthony Rendon grabbing a fan and swiping at him.
Another video that recently hit social media may add some more context to the incident.
The initial clip, which was filmed around the Angels’ dugout, only showed Rendon grabbing the fan and taking issue with what was said to him in the lead-up to the altercation. But we couldn’t actually see that lead-up.
In a new video — taken from a vantage point in the upper deck — we can see the A’s fan in the green hat shouting something at Angels players as they left the field.
Here’s another angle of the Anthony Rendon altercation with a fan pic.twitter.com/BpmmsyGFEp
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Rendon had initially walked past the fan before turning around and calling him over. That’s when Rendon grabbed the fan’s shirt and took a swipe at him.
The Angels infielder was in the lineup for Saturday’s win over the A’s. He declined to comment about the incident to reporters.
