Harvard and its fans approached the game with a level of apathy.
A fan approached him and asked if she could give him a hug; he agreed.
Canadian fans and media approached the series with confidence; many predicted that the Canadian professionals would win all eight games of the series.
A fan approaches shyly and asks for an autograph.
A fan approached me one day while I was standing in a grocery checkout line.
A fan approached her during a press conference and handed her a flower, a hydrangea.
Then a fan and his daughter approached him and asked him to sign her baseball.
He does not like it when fans approach him at bars and interrupt him at restaurants to ask him to dance.
The fear, the official said, is that a fan might leave the stands and approach the field with a weapon, and a player could be hurt.
One fan approached the car, pulled out a camera cellphone and snapped a picture of Matsui.