"Lock him up!" Washington-area baseball fans yelled Sunday night when President Donald Trump showed up at World Series Game 5.
Loud, sustained boos also greeted Trump and first lady Melania Trump when they showed up for the game at Nationals Park between the Washington Nationals and the Houston Astros.
The Trumps were joined by a group of GOP lawmakers and five wounded military veterans. They arrived at the game shortly before the first pitch by Nationals starter Joe Ross.
Chef Jose Andres, a frequent Trump critic who has a years-long legal beef with the president, threw out the ceremonial first pitch.
The Republican roster in Trump's skybox included Sens. Lindsey Graham and David Perdue and Reps. Mac Thornberry, Kevin Brady, Kay Granger, Kevin McCarthy, Steve Scalise, Mark Meadows, John Ratcliffe, Andy Biggs, Liz Cheney and Matt Gaetz.
Washington fans' reaction should not have been a surprise _ in 2016, Trump got just 4% of the vote in the District of Columbia, and he also lost both Maryland and Virginia.
Fans suspended their boos when the stadium video cut to a shot of U.S. service members waving to the crowd.
They picked up again when Ross warmed up before the fourth inning. "Lock him up!" people in the crowd yelled.
Trump said last week he didn't want to throw out the first pitch because that would have required him to wear a bulletproof vest.
"They're going to have to dress me up in a lot of heavy armor," Trump said. "I'll look too heavy. I don't like that."
Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred said prior to the game that Trump planned to arrive late and leave before the final out in order to make his entrance and exit less disruptive.
Before the game, WUSA9 reported that the Lerner family, the owners of the Nationals, asked Major League Baseball to not put them in the position of having to deny a request for them to sit with Trump. How the Lerners avoided being seated near Trump was not clear Sunday.
