Did the woman nicknamed "Phillies Karen" who yelled at a dad about a ball at a baseball game issue an apology where she flippantly said, "Yes, I got the ball. Yes, I kept it. That's how it works at the park." No, that's not true: The woman seen on video fighting for a ball at a Phillies baseball game has not been identified as of September 9, 2025. The apology was originally posted on a self-described sports parodies/satire Facebook account and it trails off ending with an incomplete sentence. There is no evidence that the woman from the video has apologized.
The claim appeared in a September 9, 2025 Facebook post (archived here) on the @TJMcCormack account with the caption, "The "Phillies Karen" I reported on over the weekend makes her first public statement." It opened:
I apologize for my actions at the Phillies game that's not who I am as a person. But the reaction to what happened has gone beyond reasonable. Yes, I got the ball. Yes, I kept it. That's how it works at the park. I know some people wish the kid got it instead, but it's still just a baseball. This isn't life or death, it's a game.
This is what the image of the apology looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at www.facebook.com/got1running.)
The term "Phillies Karen" is the nickname of the woman captured on video screaming at a dad who scooped up a home run ball that landed near her at the September 5, 2025, Phillies Mariners baseball game, as Yahoo! News reported (archived here).
A search of Facebook for the apology found the same statement posted on the satire account @EliteGridiron (archived here) on September 8, 2025, as the screenshot of the page shows the intro. This apology is the exact same language including the run off sentence at the end. The account states it is satire:
Elite Daily Dosage of Sports Parodies / Satire / Updates / For Entertainment / News & much MORE✍️
(Image source: Facebook screenshot taken by Lead Stories at facebook.com/EliteGridiron.)
This is what the apology looked like in the post that was captioned, "Phillies Karen" makes her first public statement:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at facebook.com/EliteGridiron.)
Video from the game showing the woman screaming to get the ball back, earning her the nickname "Phillies Karen," was posted on social media accounts including @PhilsTailgate (archived here).
Here is the full video of the situation in the outfield after Harrison Bader's Home Run.
-- Phillies Tailgate (@PhilsTailgate) September 6, 2025
🎥 @NBCSPhilly https://t.co/W5thuO6nhg pic.twitter.com/h9yJaPbcmX
As of September 9, 2025, the woman has not yet been identified. The apology posted on Facebook references the repercussions of her actions with the ball resulting in her being fired:
Unfortunately, because of the online mob, I've even lost my job at the school I worked at, which shows how out of control this has gotten. I left the game with the ball.
A school district that was falsely identified as being her place of employment released a humorous statement on their @HammontonSchool District Facebook (archived here), denying the woman in the video was an employee of the school:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at facebook.com/HammontonSchool District.)
A Google search found no actual news reports of the "Phillies Karen" releasing an apology statement. Similarly, the Yahoo! News index of partner news sites and news services (archived here) showed no news reports of the woman who took the ball at the baseball game apologizing.
