Parents seeing red after son runs on field at Phillies game

September 22, 2010|By CHRISTINE OLLEY, olleyc@phillynews.com 215-854-5184
  • Sean Hagan is escorted off the field at the Phils game in September.

Sean Hagan's trip into the outfield during Monday's Phillies game has left him and his family a little red in the face.

The 17-year-old Northeast Philadelphia teen ran onto the field dressed in a head-to-toe red spandex bodysuit in the bottom of the seventh inning.

Hagan bobbed and weaved through the outfield at Citizens Bank Park eluding security guards before Atlanta Braves left fielder Matt Diaz tripped him and he was finally nabbed by guards.

"My son is learning a hard lesson," Sean's father, Gary Hagan, told reporters after picking his son up from the Youth Study Center yesterday afternoon. "He risked himself, the players, Philadelphia, and put us all at this point."

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Sean Hagan was released from the juvenile-detention center still wearing the red bodysuit that garnered him national attention. He faces charges of disorderly conduct, defiant trespass and disrupting meetings, police said.

His parents apologized for their son's actions and said he would be punished for putting himself and the players in harm's way.

In May, police at the ballpark chased 17-year-old Steve Consalvi after he ran onto the field.

He was zapped with a Taser by a police officer before being led off the field.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

 

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