"We were there to get a home run ball,"
"So I thought I had accomplished this great thing. And putting it in his glove meant a lot. She was just so adamant and loud and yelling and persistent, and I just didn't want to deal with it anymore."
"There was hundreds of people just staring. And like I said, she was very, very, very close, and I'm Dad of the family, so I didn't want to do something I'd regret. And that was the choice I made, just hand the ball back and tell her go away."
"I guess she just thought that that was her ball, because it was in front of her," Feltwell said. "That's fine, but she was too slow."
A Florida father caught a Harrison Bader home run ball and placed it in his 9-year-old son Lincoln's glove before a nearby woman loudly claimed it. The father decided to remove the ball from his son and give it to the persistent woman to avoid escalation and set a de-escalation example for his family. He described being the first to reach the ball and said the woman began grabbing for it despite its landing in an empty seat. The family later received souvenirs from a Marlins representative and a Phillies representative arranged a postgame meeting with Bader.
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