{"id":137458,"date":"2025-09-06T16:32:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T16:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/137458\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T16:32:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T16:32:15","slug":"phillies-invite-young-fan-to-meet-harrison-bader-after-dispute-over-home-run-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/137458\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies invite young fan to meet Harrison Bader after dispute over home run ball"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIAMI (AP) \u2014 The Philadelphia Phillies invited a young fan to meet Harrison Bader following their 9-3 win over the Miami Marlins<\/a> on Friday night after an apparent dispute<\/a> over a home run ball hit by the center fielder during the game.<\/p>\n

Bader hit a solo home run into the left-field stands in the fourth inning at loanDepot Park. Several fans scrambled for the ball before a man came up with it and walked over and gave it to a boy and hugged him. Both were wearing Phillies gear, and it was the boy\u2019s birthday.<\/a><\/p>\n

Moments later, a woman, also wearing Philadelphia apparel, approached and appeared to shout at the man, who then grabbed the ball from the boy\u2019s glove and gave it to her.<\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t clear from videos circulating on social media who initially secured the ball when it landed.<\/p>\n

Later in the game, a member of the Marlins\u2019 staff gave the boy a prize pack and another baseball as fans sitting near them in the stands cheered. The boy ended up going home with a signed bat from Bader<\/a>, who met with him outside of the Phillies\u2019 clubhouse after the game.<\/p>\n

Marcus Lemonis, Camping World CEO and star of CNBC reality TV show \u201cThe Profit,\u201d later posted on his X account<\/a> that he would pay for the young fan and his family to attend the World Series.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, and you just won an RV as well,\u201d he posted.<\/p>\n

The dispute quickly went viral on social media and comes just days after another memorabilia-snatching moment in which a man took tennis player Kamil Majchrzak\u2019s hat from a young fan at the U.S. Open<\/a> and was widely criticized for the act.<\/p>\n

He apologized on social media on Monday and said he has returned it.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (AP) \u2014 The Philadelphia Phillies invited a young fan to meet Harrison Bader following their 9-3 win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1558,2822,2808,26057,78599,66395,2324,363,2008,5631,3234,480,99,1306],"class_list":["post-137458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-fl-state-wire","tag-florida","tag-harrison-bader","tag-kamil-majchrzak","tag-marcus-lemonis","tag-miami-marlins","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-pa-state-wire","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-sports","tag-trending-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}