In Red Sox win over Yankees, Jarren Duran has incident with heckler in eighth inning

Red Sox left fielder Jarren Duran seemed to verbally go after a heckling fan again Saturday afternoon in the eighth inning of a 4-1 win over the Yankees at Fenway Park.

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After Duran grounded out, he returned to the dugout and appeared to shout at a man sitting about eight rows behind the dugout. That man had been “chirping” for several innings and at Duran in that moment, interim manager Chad Tracy said.

Several teammates got in front of Duran, whom they brought down into the dugout.

“He was yelling, so I grabbed him [to diffuse the situation],” Willson Contreras said.

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Asked about the exchange, Duran repeatedly said “nothing happened.”

The fan, who was wearing a Yankees cap and yelling about baseball matters, according to an eyewitness, was escorted without incident out of the park during the top of the ninth inning.

Tracy said it is not disappointing that Duran reacted that way.

Why?

“Just not,” Tracy said.

Duran has a history of angry in-game interactions with fans, including in Minnesota in April, when he flipped off a group of Twins fans. He claimed afterward that someone had told him he should kill himself. The Twins investigated the episode, speaking to a half-dozen people in the immediate vicinity, and found no evidence of that.

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Alex Speier of the Globe staff contributed to this report.