San Diego and Los Angeles are tied atop the NL West at 74-57 after San Diego won two of three in the series. The Dodgers won Sunday's finale 8-2, powered by four home runs and six strong innings from Yoshinobu Yamamoto, while Shohei Ohtani hit his 45th homer. A fan wearing a Fernando Tatis Jr. jersey sat next to the Dodgers' dugout and heckled Ohtani throughout the game. The fan's proximity and the Padres' recent success made heckling tempting. Heckling is generally exhausting and annoying, but in this instance the exchange produced a benign, entertaining outcome.
A man in a Fernando Tatis Jr. jersey, seated right next to the Dodgers dugout, spent the entire game heckling Ohtani. You can understand how temptation can lead a man to do such a thing: His team had spent the previous two games silencing the Dodgers' offense (Ohtani was 0-7 coming into Sunday's game) and establishing themselves as the new captains of the NL West.
In general, heckling is an exhausting practice carried out by weird guys whose only service to the game is annoying the hell out of everyone else sitting in their section. I suppose, however, in this age where an increasingly common interaction between fans and athletes is the former sending an Instagram DM death threat to the latter's whole family over a blown gambling parlay, old-fashioned heckling is downright charming in comparison.
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