The Houston Astros pitcher Lance Mcullers Jr. said he recovered the death threats online aimed at his children after his hard start on Saturday night against the reds of the Cincinnati.
McCullers, who was doing only his second beginning from game 3 of the World Series 2022, allowed seven races while obtaining only one in the defeat of Houston 13-9.
Subsequently, McCullers said he had received threats on social networks.
“I understand that people are very passionate and people love the star and love sports, but threatening to find my children and kill them is a bit difficult to treat,” he said. “So just as a father“ I think they have many, many threats over the years, they directed me mainly, and I think that one or two people of other problems around baseball had to go to jail for things like that. But I think that bringing children to the equation, threatening to find them or the next time they see us in public, they will stab my children to death, things like that, it is difficult to listen to him as a father. “
The stars said the Houston Police Department and MLB’s security had been alerted to threats.
McCullers and his wife, Kara, have two young daughters.
An annoying visible manager, Joe Espada, addressed the threats in his press conference after the game and added that they also threatened the launch of the pitcher.
“There are people who threaten their lives and the lives of their children due to their performance,” he said. “It is very unfortunate that we have to deal with this. After everything he has done for this city, for his team, the fact that we have to talk about that in my office: I also have children and it really drives me crazy that we have to deal with this. This. This. This. This. This.”
McCullers, who has had numerous injuries that have kept him out of the field in recent seasons, said it is difficult to deal with threats in addition to Tricy to form in the mound.
“If you fail, it fails in a very large stage (with) many eyes and there is no place to hide,” he said. “At the end of the day, I just want to do my job. I just want to be a good pitcher for the stars and I think I will get there, but as I said, I just think that having to worry about that, worrying about leaving and leaving them and things like that or leaving it in school, I just think … there should be some kind or decency.”
Associated Press reports.
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