A father who was berated into giving his son’s home run baseball to an angry Phillies fan explained why he handed over the prized possession, which was supposed to be an early birthday gift.
“I pretty much just wanted her to go away,” Drew Feltwell told NBC10 Philadelphia on Saturday.
Feltwell was one of six excited fans who sprinted toward a home run ball that Phillies outfielder Harrison Bader smacked during Friday night’s matchup against the Marlins at LoanDepot Park in Miami.
He insisted that he was the first and only person to grab the ball from the seats in left field, but a female, gray-haired Phillies fan refused to be a good sport.
“She was in the seat behind,” Feltwell explained. “I don’t know if she was standing up. Maybe? 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.”
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