Dad Reveals Why He Gave Baseball Back To “Phillies Karen”

The father, who was yelled at by a woman at a Phillies game after getting a home run ball for his son, is speaking out why he ended up giving the ball to the unhinged “Karen” who yelled at him.

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In the interview the father simply shared he didn’t want the situation to esculate which is why he decided to give the ball to her.

LAD Bible broke the interview down:

A father has explained why he handed over a home run baseball he was about to give to his son to an angry baseball fan.

Drew Feltwell had attempted to give his son a home run ball hit by Philadelphia Phillies’ Harrison Bader during Friday’s game, which he said they were attending for their son, Lincoln’s, 10th birthday, when a woman angrily confronted him.

During an interview with NBC10, he insisted that he reached for the ball from the seats in left field, and as he walked away, a female fan ‘in the seat behind’ claimed it was hers.

“I don’t know if she was standing up. Maybe?” he said. “But I was watching the ball from almost the bat to where it went into that seat and kind of jumbled around and I was already going in and coincidentally, as soon as I was going in, it stopped in one spot and I just picked it up.”

He said as he walked back to his family to give Lincoln the ball, the woman chased him down and demanded the ball back.

Providing his version of events, he added: “I didn’t even see her walk up, and as she reached for my arm, she just yelled in my ear, ‘That’s my ball!’ like super loud.

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“I jumped out of my skin, and I was like, you know, like ‘Why are you here?’ you know, ‘Go away.’ And she’s like, ‘That’s my ball! You stole out of – those are from our seats.’

“And I said, ‘There was nobody in that seat,’ you know. She said, ‘That’s from where we were sitting,’ and she just went on and on.”

The father said he didn’t want to make the situation worse as he ‘pretty much just wanted her to go away’.

“I don’t even remember what she said, it was, you know, a lot of eyes on us by that time and the ball was already in his glove and she just wouldn’t stop,” Drew explained.

Watch the full interview here: