Jarren Duran flipped off at a fan during their road game against the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday. The incident occurred in the fifth inning when a fan heckled at Duran on his way to the dugout after a grounder and the Red Sox outfielder showed him his middle finger.

After the game, Duran explained that the fan had triggered him by asking to kill himself.

“Yeah, somebody just told me to kill myself,” Duran said after the game. “I’m used to it at this point. [Things] happen. I’m gonna flip somebody off if they say something to me, but it is what it is. I shouldn’t react like that. That kind of stuff is still kind of triggering. It happens.“

But before fans on social media got a chance to hear his explanation they blasted him for his action on X.

Here are a few reactions:

“Jarren Durran is a tool,” a fan wrote.

“Why did we start giving this guy a free pass to be a d*** to fans just because he almost offed himself?” a fan questioned.

“Mental health struggles do not give you the right to be an a******,” a fan stated.

“Red Sox could have traded him for (Kris) Bubic but got greedy asking too much,” another fan wrote.

“This guy is one of the most overrated players in baseball. What a chud,” a fan added.

The 29-year-old has been open about his struggles with mental health, even revealing, in the Netflix documentary “The Clubhouse: A Year with the Red Sox,” a scary failed suicide attempt when he was struggling in the 2021 and 2022 seasons.

This is not first time where Duran has had a difficult interaction with a fan. During a game against the Cleveland Guardians, last year on April 27, a heckling fan was removed from Progressive Field after trying to provoke the outfielder. In 2024, Duran was suspended for two games after he used a homophobic slur against a fan.

Jarren Duran says he brought haters onto himself after talking about his mental health

Duran accepted that it has been ideal for him to speak about his struggles, as they have instead brought rival fans to try to get under his skin.

“Honestly, it’s my fault for talking about my mental health, because I kind of brought in the haters,” Duran told reporters. “So it’s just something I got to get used to.”

On Tuesday, Duran didn’t speak to anyone in the Red Sox dugout about what he heard from the stands.

“I didn’t really tell anybody , so that’s on me, just trying to hold it in, not really bringing it up to the team,” Duran said. “I mean, we’re trying to win a game. I shouldn’t even bring that up to anybody. It’s not really something I want to be like, ‘Bro, you should have heard what this guy said to me.’

“That’s not the most important thing. The most important thing is win the game. And, yeah, it just happens.”

Duran has managed a poor .182/.274/.291 slash line with a .565 OPS and 10 RBIs to start the season. The Red Sox are currently rock bottom in the AL East with a 6-11 record.