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In the eighth inning of the Mets-Angels game in Anaheim Friday night Curtis Granderson caught a fly ball near the wall. As he was about to throw the ball back to the infield, an Angels fan reached over and touched his back. Granderson immediately turned and confronted the fan, who was quickly escorted out by security.

Granderson told New York Newsday that he doesn’t mind if fans berate him verbally, so long as they keep their hands off him.

“He touched me, then I turned around and he’s like, ‘I didn’t mean to.’ I said, ‘Hey, just don’t touch me.’ So that was it. Say whatever you want to say, boo, cheer, clap, cheer for your team, cheer for the other team. But just don’t physically touch players.”