Nick Castellanos Shared an Awesome Moment With Fired-Up Phillies Fan

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The Philadelphia Phillies continued their solid early-season play by downing the St. Louis Cardinals, 4-1, on Saturday afternoon. Of all the 30,791 paying customers at Citizens Bank Park, one was more fired-up about the matinee experience than the rest and the youngster did his very best to get the team locked in from the very first inning.
Check out the moment when rightfielder Nick Castellanos reeled in a fly ball near the seats down the right-field line and subsequent celebration he and the fan shared.
Here’s that kid congratulating Nick Castellanos pic.twitter.com/wvlxTGpxxd
— John Foley (@2008Philz) April 12, 2025
Our guy here went in for the high-five and the fist bump. One gets the feeling that in the pre-pitch clock era these two would have been perfectly willing to work out their own secret handshake before Castellanos threw the ball back into the infield.
The Phillies outfielder spoke about the cool moment during a postgame interview, saying that the mission was accomplished and fired-upness was full achieved.
— John Foley (@2008Philz) April 12, 2025
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Kyle Koster is an assistant managing editor at Sports Illustrated covering the intersection of sports and media. He was formerly the editor in chief of The Big Lead, where he worked from 2011 to '24. Koster also did turns at the Chicago Sun-Times, where he created the Sports Pros(e) blog, and at Woven Digital.
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