Video shows a couple’s failed marriage proposal that took place in front of fans at baseball game

• Fans at a minor-league baseball game captured videos of a supposed marriage proposal gone wrong.
• A woman ran away from a man who proposed to her at a Worcester Red Sox game on Thursday.
• A witness told 98.5 The Sports Hub that the man ran after the woman following the proposal.
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A video captured at a minor-league baseball game appears to show a public marriage proposal gone wrong.

According to The Independent, the supposed proposal took place at a Worcester Red Sox game on Thursday in Worcester, Massachusetts. The sports news website What's the Word Massachusetts posted a video of the moment to its Instagram account on Friday, where it's gained 88,000 views so far.

In the video, the unidentified man and woman are shown standing on what looks like one of the team's dugouts while spectators watched from the stadium seats. While the man waited on one knee and fans cheered on the couple, the woman looked visibly shocked.

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According to the video shared by What's the Word Massachusetts, after the man bent on one knee, the woman looked back at him, shook her head no, and escaped up the stadium stairs. The moment was also captured on the stadium's screen, according to the video.

The moment was also reported by photographer Ashely Green and recorded by other baseball attendees, who shared footage on Twitter.

In a video shared by one Twitter user, the woman can repeatedly be heard saying, "I have to go."

-Dylan Azari (@officialazari) July 16, 2021

After the video circulated on Twitter, some social-media users tweeted that public marriage proposals can be risky for the people involved - even if the person proposing thinks they know how the other will react.

Other users on Twitter wrote that they thought the footage from the baseball game may have been fake. Green, who was at the Thursday game, told Insider that she believed the proposal may have been a stunt. However, Steven Wooster, a fan who said he was at the Worcester Red Sox game on Thursday, told the radio station 98.5 The Sports Hub that he thought the scene was "real" because of the way he said the man who proposed reacted.

"I was sitting on the third-base side. I looked across and saw the gentleman in the purple jersey," Wooster told 98.5 in a phone call. "The woman was horrified after the proposal. She ran up the stairs. The gentleman ran after her with two of his buddies."

"I saw the whole thing," Wooster added in the call with 98.5. "It was horrifying."