J .D. Martinez touches a fan's boobs, a breakdown
What Happened
During a 2019 Red Sox road game against the Yankees, J.D. Martinez had a rough afternoon in right field that Jomboy stitched together into one breakdown. Martinez first lost a ball in the sun, letting Didi Gregorius reach second, then watched a pop-up drop nearby that Brock Holt scrambled to cover. The clip's centerpiece comes when Martinez chases a Gleyber Torres double into the corner, reaches for the railing to brace himself, misses it, and accidentally grabs a Yankees fan in the stands. Jomboy frames the whole thing as a comedy of errors and spends the back half insisting the contact was clearly an accident.
Why This Matters
This one blew up less for baseball reasons and more because the title was built to travel. There's no rule violated and no suspension involved, just an outfielder bracing for the wall and grabbing a railing that wasn't there. The interesting part is how the video doubles as crisis management. Jomboy spends nearly half the runtime telling viewers to calm down and stop calling it assault, which tells you the clip was already getting passed around with a worse spin attached. That defensive framing is rare for a breakdown and shows how fast a freeze-frame can get weaponized online. For Martinez, it was a forgettable defensive day in a lost Red Sox season that missed the playoffs after winning the 2018 World Series. The viral life of the clip far outlasted the game itself.
With 6.4M views and a #10 ranking out of 1,583 breakdowns, this sits in the top 0.6% of everything Jomboy has ever posted.
Key Moments
Who / What Is Involved
Players: J.D. Martinez. Teams: Red Sox.
Full Transcript
Click timestamps to jump to that momentJadey Martinez had himself an eventful
day in right field first started off not
being able to catch that says the Sun
was in his eyes yeah weaker than the Sun
wow what a shame
dee dee goes all the way to second look
at him he's like I would love to catch
this ball and get the out but it's just
that I'm fully blinded by the Sun next
up right-field pop-up and Holt's gonna
try and make the crazy but play because
JD refuses to make the simple plays like
yeah man I just was having fun watching
you plus I don't trust myself at all to
catch this ball that lands right by my
feet while I was running slowly later on
to make up for all these doubts and
these errors he's gonna grab this double
by Glaber Torres and grab that lady's
tits come on come on
JD what the heck come on this is where
it all goes down reaching for the
railing misses the railing grabs the
Yankees fan she doesn't want to be
grabbed there JD you don't want all
another blind guy in the stands just to
make him feel better about the blindness
from earlier in the game and she's like
oh my god Wow
I knew the Boston fans were a little
rude but I didn't expect the players to
assault me what just discussed oh my god
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think this is real and he really meant
it to grab her and he did it on purpose
please just shut the [ __ ] up it was
obviously a joke and an obvious mistake
he was reaching for the railing just
shut up just shut up just shut up it
wasn't on purpose it wasn't assault it
was a mistake it was a casual mistake he
didn't mean to