Boston Red Sox
“I don’t want to get into the details, just enough for us to say, ‘Can you please get him out?’”
Jarren Duran had another incident with a fan on Saturday. AP Photo/Kevin Ng
June 28, 2026 | 6:42 PM
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Red Sox outfielder Jarren Duran has had numerous run-ins with fans over the last few years in the big leagues.
That continued during Saturday’s 4-1 win over the Yankees at Fenway Park, as Duran appeared to get into an altercation with a fan in the eighth inning.
After grounding out to first, Duran made his way back to the dugout and appeared to shout back at a heckling fan sitting eight rows behind the dugout, per Tim Healey of The Boston Globe. Several Red Sox players got in front of Duran before bringing him down to the dugout.
The fan — who was wearing a Yankees hat — was eventually escorted out of Fenway Park at the top of the ninth inning.
“Just some people that were chirping, had been chirping for a few innings,” Red Sox interim manager Chad Tracy said of the incident. “And started chirping toward Jarren again. We grabbed him and got him down [in the dugout] and told [security], ‘Can you get them out?’ That was all.”
Tracy was asked if the chirping went over the line from the fan to Duran.
“I don’t want to get into the details, just enough for us to say, ‘Can you please get him out?’” Tracy said.
Duran did not want to discuss the incident after Saturday’s win, saying, “Nothing happened,” on several occasions during a media scrum that lasted less than 30 seconds.
This marks the second time that Duran has had an incident with a fan this season.
During a 6-0 loss to the Twins in April, cameras captured Duran giving a middle finger to a fan in the seats at Target Field after grounding out in the fifth inning.
Speaking after the loss, Duran said he made the gesture toward the fan because of heckles about his mental health battles during his big-league career.
“Somebody just told me kill myself,” Duran told the Globe postgame. “I’m used to it at this point. I mean, [expletive] happens. I’m going to flip somebody off if they say something to me, but it is what it is. I shouldn’t react like that. But that kind of stuff is still kind of triggering. It happens.”
During a game against the Cleveland Guardians in April 2025, a fan was ejected from Progressive Field after taunting Duran over his suicide attempt, which he revealed as part of an interview on the Netflix documentary, “The Clubhouse: A Year with the Red Sox.”
During the 2024 season, Duran was suspended for two games when he yelled a homophobic slur at a fan at Fenway Park after the fan shouted that Duran needed a tennis racket to hit.
Conor Ryan is a staff writer covering the Bruins, Celtics, Patriots, and Red Sox for Boston.com, a role he has held since 2023.
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