One Phillies fan irked Nick Castellanos to the purpose the place he determined to shout and gesture towards the fan within the moments after a loss Friday.
After second baseman Bryson Stott fouled out to finish Philadelphia’s 9-6 setback towards the Reds at Residents Financial institution Park, Castellanos remained close to the highest of the dugout and began yelling towards the stands — whereas pointing his finger and showing to gesture for somebody to depart — as captured by the NBC broadcast.
It’s unclear from the video what Castellanos stated or what prompted the change, however Jace Kaleikau — a senior video producer with the Phillies, in response to LinkedIn — wrote in two posts on X that he was “proper there” and witnessed a drunk fan yelling at Stott as Castellanos defended his teammate.
“I used to be proper there and a drunk fan got here all the best way down by the dugout and was screaming at Stott for getting the final out,” Kaleikau wrote in a single submit.
“I might have been shocked if somebody didn’t rise up for him. The fan crossed a number of strains, all whereas being like 5 ft away.”
Kaleikau added within the second submit that “if there ever was a time when a fan went too far that warranted a response from a participant, this was it.”
The Phillies, who holdd a ½-game lead within the NL East coming into Saturday, misplaced for the eighth time in 12 video games Friday, going simply 3-for-13 with runners in scoring place and stranding 11 runners on base to open a three-game set towards the Reds.
Castellanos launched his eleventh homer of the season to offer the Phillies a brief 3-0 lead within the first inning, however that benefit disappeared when Cincinnati scored 5 instances within the third and knocked Philadelphia starter Jesús Luzardo out of the sport.
The outfielder is hitting .278 with a .771 OPS throughout his third season with the Phillies, although Castellanos’ spectacular streak of taking part in in 236 consecutive video games got here to an finish final month when he made an undisclosed “inappropriate remark” to supervisor Rob Thomson — following Thomson’s determination to take away him for a defensive alternative — and was benched for a sport.
“One of many many issues about Nick that I like is that he’s very emotional,” Thomson advised reporters earlier than Philadelphia’s June 17 sport. “He likes to play and he likes to play each inning of each sport. I simply thought final night time, he made an inappropriate remark after he got here out.”
The Phillies ship Ranger Suárez to the hill to oppose the Reds’ Nick Lodolo on Saturday.
