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The first fan who messed with Mookie Betts last night has been identified as 38-year-old Austin Capobianco, who lives in Connecticut.

He said the Yankees’ decision to keep him from coming tonight didn’t surprise him.

“The boat to tonight’s game was kind of expected, but the fact that my little brother and his friends can’t use our season tickets tonight has really pissed me off,” he said in a text message to NBC News. “It’s not like they can go to the next game.”

Capobianco is a longtime, diehard Yankees fan, according to the man’s college roommate Rob Gronkowski, the former Arizona Wildcats, New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight end.

“He’s all in for his teams, he’s all in for the Yankees. I remember him talking about the Yankees all the time, how he loves them so much,” Gronkowski told FanDuel TV’s “Up & Adams” show.

“He’s a funny guy. It’s absolutely unacceptable in the world of sports,” Gronkowski said of the catch interference. “But when you’re that big of a fan, that’s what fans do.”

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