J .D. Martinez touches a fan's boobs, a breakdown

Sep 7, 2019 6.4M views 1:46

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.

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Who / What Is Involved

Players: J.D. Martinez. Teams: Red Sox.

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Jadey 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