The enraged Phillies fan incident made its way onto “SportsCenter.”
During a segment titled “So This Happened” on Friday, hosts Nicole Briscoe and Michael Eaves tore into the woman who took a home run ball from a child — who the Phillies identified as Lincoln — that night as Philadelphia faced the Marlins.
“Oh she went after him,” Briscoe said of the woman. “She is big mad. Like he went into her space to get the ball, but she goes on and on and on. And the dad is immediately is like, ‘Well if it means that much to you,’ then he takes the ball from his kids glove and goes, ‘Here, you can have it.’”
“Really lady?” Eaves chimed in.
“Hate to call her a Karen, but …,” Briscoe said.
Briscoe then explained how the Marlins immediately jumped in to support Lincoln following the altercation.
“The Marlins [staff] went up to the kid and they gave him all of the goodies to help replace the ball,” Briscoe said.
Eaves jumped in and took a shot at the woman, saying, “Awesome, make her feel terrible.”
“Yes, please make her feel terrible,” Briscoe replied. “Because here is the thing: you took it from a kid.”
Briscoe then noted that Harrison Bader — who hit the home run that sparked the altercation — gave Lincoln a signed bat and ball after the game.
“That is how you treat kids,” Briscoe said. “i don’t care, lady, who you are — you didn’t have a kid with you, and it’s about them.”
“If you don’t catch it, it’s fair game,” Eaves replied.
Video surfaced Saturday showing what exactly was said between the woman and Lincoln’s father during the incident, with the lady insisting that the ball should belong to her.
“That was mine,” she yelled at the father. “You took it from me. It was in my hands.”
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
