Nippon-Ham Fighters fan attacks security staff at baseball game because he couldn't watch the players

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After a professional baseball game at Yokohama Stadium (Naka Ward, Yokohama City) , the Kanagawa Prefectural Police Kagacho Police Station said on the 20th, that a man was arrested because he was angry that the players on the ground were hard to see and assaulted a security guard.

Suspect Morohashi Wataru (36), a self-proclaimed IT company executive, was arrested on suspicion of assault .

Admitting the allegations. On the previous day, on the 19th, there was a professional baseball “Nippon Life Sepa Interleague Game”, and it is said that he was rooting for Nippon-Ham who played against Yokohama DeNA Bay Stars.

The suspect was arrested at around 10:15 pm on June 19, after the game ended, in the infield seats on the third base side of the stadium, grabbing both shoulders of a first-year university worker (18) who was a security guard and fell down . It is said that Security guards usually stand or sit near benches to prevent people from throwing things onto the ground.

Initially, the suspect said, “I couldn’t see the player, so I squatted down to the security guard and told him that it was a hindrance”.

Security camera footage showed him falling near the aisle of the infield seats.