It was Another One of Those Nights in South Philly. So the Weird & Wild column is back to rip through all the long ball madness.
PHILADELPHIA — It doesn’t take a whole lot to rattle the Richter scales at Citizens Bank Park these days. But it took just one pitch for to turn into another stadium-shaker. First came a 117 mph mortar off the auxiliary scoreboard. Then came a Bryce Harper lunar orbiter that came down where baseballs never land. Then it was Nick Castellanos’ turn to make it three home runs off in . And it turned into , on Another One of Those Nights in South Philly.
It’s about the unity , really,” he said. “You know, in other places, you have the fans that come out, for sure. They’re loud, for sure. But here, it’s like passion, love and die for it. And I love that. I absolutely love that about these people. We don’t go anywhere without them.” WEIRD AND WILD: “I don’t know if they’re going to fit on the plane to Arizona.”
We need them.” W&W: “Then I think you need to order a lot more planes.” 4. Nick at Nite Nick Castellanos watches his solo homer in the second inning. When last we left , in the final two games of the NLDS, he’d just become the first player in postseason history to crank out . But that wasn’t even the Weird and Wild part. The Weird and Wild part was that the first player to do that in postseason history was a guy who had never done that himself in any two back-to-back regular-season games.
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