Diamondbacks star Ketel Marte cries on field after fan's cruel comments about late mother

Arizona Diamondbacks prima 2nd baseman Ketel Marte was successful tears during a pitching alteration successful the seventh inning of the team’s 4-1 triumph implicit the Chicago White Sox astatine Rate Field connected Tuesday. 

Marte, 31, was near successful tears aft a instrumentality yelled derogatory comments astir his precocious mother. Marte’s mother, Elpidia Valdez, died successful a car clang successful the Dominican Republic successful 2017. Diamondbacks' manager Torey Lovullo consoled the tearful Marte connected the mound and enactment his limb astir him during the pitching change. 

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Arizona Diamondbacks 2nd baseman Ketel Marte, #4, hugs pitcher Eduardo Rodriguez, #57, successful the dugout aft helium hits a location tally against the Chicago White Sox during the 4th inning astatine Rate Field connected June 23, 2025 successful Chicago. (Matt Marton-Imagn Images)

Lovullo said helium heard what the instrumentality said towards Marte, and a Diamondbacks' spokesperson told the Arizona Republic that Lovullo and seat manager Jeff Banis asked for the idiosyncratic to beryllium removed from the game. 

"It was a unspeakable moment, fans are nasty, fans spell excessively far," an affectional Lovullo said to reporters aft the game. "I conscionable reacted arsenic a dada would erstwhile I went retired to alteration pitchers," Lovullo said, per the Arizona Republic. "I could spot helium was sobbing. It hurt."

Lovullo added that helium told Marte that helium was not unsocial and that the heckler was "an idiot."

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Arizona Diamondbacks shortstop Geraldo Perdomo, #2, and 2nd baseman Ketel Marte, #4, observe aft defeating the Chicago White Sox astatine Rate Field connected June 24, 2025 successful Chicago. (Patrick Gorski-Imagn Images)

Lovullo said helium loves each of his players and that helium is going to support them. 

"I’ve known Ketel for 9 years, and he’s had immoderate unbelievably large moments and immoderate hardships arsenic good and immoderate truly unsmooth moments successful his beingness and I cognize those. At the extremity of the day, we’re quality beings, and we person emotions and I saw him hurting, and I wanted to support him."

Diamondbacks shortstop Geraldo Perdomo said the instrumentality "should beryllium banned, for sure."

"That can’t happen," Perdomo said. "We can’t proceed to bash that ... present in MLB."

Marte declined to remark connected the incidental done a squad official. 

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Arizona Diamondbacks 2nd baseman Ketel Marte, #4, rounds the bases and celebrates his location tally during the archetypal inning against the Chicago White Sox astatine Rate Field connected June 24, 2025 successful Chicago. (Patrick Gorski-Imagn Images)

Marte went 2-4 successful the win, with a first-inning solo location tally that gave the Diamondbacks a 1-0 lead. Marte is erstwhile again having an fantabulous play with the Diamondbacks.

In 52 games, the two-time All-Star has a .316 batting mean with 14 location runs and 31 RBI.

The Diamondbacks (41-38) play the White Sox (25-55) play the last crippled of their three-game bid astatine 2:10 p.m. ET connected Wednesday. The Diamondbacks are going for the bid sweep, arsenic they won the archetypal 2 games of the series. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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