Kate Upton hit back over what she called “degrading and disrespectful” comments after she spoke out against a call that denied the Houston Astros a home run Wednesday night.
“So if a player is IN the stands fans are suppose [d] to move over? If those are the rules MLB shouldn’t let fans sit there. They didn’t reach over the fence. @MLB,” the 26-year-old Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model wrote on Twitter. (RELATED: 15 Things You Didn’t Know About Kate Upton [SLIDESHOW])
So if a player is IN the stands fans are suppose to move over? If those are the rules MLB shouldn’t let fans sit there. They didn’t reach over the fence. @MLB
— Kate Upton (@KateUpton) October 18, 2018
After a flood of responses, the swimsuit model and wife of Astros pitcher Justin Verlander, hit back at people for calling her names like “princess” and “honey.”
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Model Kate Upton arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala (Met Gala) to celebrate the opening of ìHeavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imaginationî in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., May 7, 2018. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
“I feel the need to acknowledge and address the amount of people who have called me ‘princess,’ ‘honey’ or a terrible ‘girl’ sports fan. Just because I have an opinion on the call doesn’t give you the right to be degrading and disrespectful because I’m a woman,” Upton tweeted.
I feel the need to acknowledge & address the amount of people who have called me “princess”, “honey” or a terrible “girl” sports fan. Just because I have an opinion on the call doesn’t give you the right to be degrading & disrespectful because I’m a woman.
— Kate Upton (@KateUpton) October 18, 2018
The call that got all the attention happened during the first inning of the Houston Astros-Boston Red Sox ALCS game 4 matchup. Second baseman Jose Altuve was denied a two-run homer after Red Sox outfielder Mookie Betts was unable to catch the ball because a fan in the stands appeared to interfere.