Earlier in the month, a Philadelphia Phillies fan at a game between the Phillies and the Miami Marlins made headlines by snatching a Harrison Bader home run ball out of the hands of a young fan, who had been gifted the ball from his father after he went over to where the fan was standing and grabbed the ball after it hit the seats, the female fan that took the ball now forever enshrined on the internet as “Phillies Karen.”
After the event took place, the Phillies and Marlins both rewarded the young boy with various gifts, and Harrison Bader himself even signed a bat for the youngster.
Now, just a couple of weeks after the original incident took place, and another Phillies player is giving his thoughts on the moment.
“I see a very frustrated lady…”
In his appearance on Mookie Betts’ On Base podcast, Phillies outfielder Nick Castellanos gave his take on the instance from a player’s perspective, interacting with fans of different ages all the time.
“Whenever I’m playing catch or I go, I always aim for a kid,” the two-time All Star said. “You always have that ambitious adult sometimes that will come and grab it but when I see that I don’t just see a ball. I see a very frustrated lady for years that probably felt like she was getting the (expletive) end of the stick. And now this thing happened, and she’s like, ‘I’m not finishing second here. I need this for me.'”
Given that younger children are typically given supremacy when a race for a ball is on, it’s hard to not feel for the boy who had a wholesome moment interrupted at the ballpark, whether the woman was having a bad day before then, or just really wanted a souvenir.
